Back in the Day....James Garner has a thing for fast cars....especially Corvettes

Must be the nature of the day that I am interested in historical items...there's a reason for that but for now it will remain under wraps....Take a look at this - James Garner is famous for his acting but is also a Korean War veteran and enjoyed racing fast cars, including Corvettes. He drove the pace cars at the 59th Indianapolis 500 (May 25, 1975), the 61st Indianapolis 500 (May 29, 1977), and at the 69th Indianapolis 500 (May 26, 1985). Here are some pictures I found online that show James Garner tearing it up, back in the day. He owned a Chevy Dealership and that must have made it easy for him to get access to the Muscle cars of the Day, especially the 1968 Corvette...wow. Must have been fun.

Hi-Tech Stuff - Back in the day......

We are a society driven by technology...Cell Phones, GPS, Ipads, etc., etc. but we owe a great deal to the people who developed the items that lead others to create better and better technology....The first digital watches were very expensive ($300) and they did little more than tell the time.....now, they are throw-away cheap. Same with computers....not that I am old but in high school, we used a tele[type that was hitched up to a mainframe computer miles away....and it all ran on the computer language called BASIC....yeah, we actually had to learn the language of computers....let's see your average teenager do that these days... So here are a few pictures of " Old School" guys doing the techie thing back in the day....pretty interesting in light of what we have now.

This isn't some ridiculous "city of the FUTURE!" concept art; this photo of an "elevator garage" was taken in 1936 Chicago by photographer John Gutmann, and here it is from another angle. I can picture dropping in a nickel to get our car back and then seeing it get stuck at the top like a bag of chips in a vending machine. It's easy for us to laugh, but in 1899 this must have looked like a terrifying vision of the future. Even if the guy was wearing a tie, bowler hat and dress shoes. Back in those days, if you were not the more finely dressed army, you were considered to have lost the war regardless of how much land you seized. That's inventor F.R. Simms, by the way, demonstrating his Simms Motor Scout armored quadricycle.

This last picture is not as "old school" as the others but I thought this looks funky....the Airplane looks like it is eating the car...it was how they did it "back in the day"

Hawaii back in the day......1890's to be specific....

SURF'S UP, 1890's style !!

I am a fan of all things HAWAII and having lived there for an extended period, I enjoy both the history of Hawaii but also the culture.

I am glad to see that the history of what was Hawaii has been preserved in pictures...To have stood on the shore of Waikiki back before the hotels and see what true Hawaii looked like in the day must have been special.....



Hawaii 1890: Is this the first ever picture of a surfer about to ride the waves in the 19th century?
By Daily Mail Reporter
27th February 2011

Long before Kelly Slater was picking up World Champion titles for his surfing prowess, the sport was being followed by Hawaiian natives in the 19th century.

And now the first ever picture of a surfer has been found in a photo album that dates back to 1890.

The muscled Hawaiian beach boy is photographed wearing a traditional loin cloth and shown standing in the shallows holding his rudimentary board.

Missionaries who went to the island after Captain Cook's death there in 1789 virtually stamped out all surfing in Hawaii because they thought it ungodly.

It survived in small pockets and this strapping surfer was clearly keeping up the tradition and the picture has survived and is now up for sale.

Two albums full of snaps have been submitted for auction and other subjects include pictures of topless native women from Hawaii and Fiji – and the pre-sale estimate is £10,000.

It is unclear who owned the albums, although it is thought that whoever it was acquired them during their travels around the globe.

Photography was able to bring the exotic back home and at the same time record history.

They were bought by a private dealer at a house clearance many years ago and he is now selling them.

Other photos include some of Hawaiin Royalty including King Kalakaua - who died in 1891 - Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Kaiulani.

In total there are 100 photographs, 20 from Fiji, and they record the characters and scenes that Britons found so intriguing to look at.

Chris Albury, from Dominic Winter auctions near Cirencester, Gloucs, which is selling the albums on Thursday, said: 'These are very interesting albums.

'And what does stand out is the photograph of the surfer which we think was taken in about 1890 and is one of the earliest photos taken of a surfer.

Back in the day....JEEP lead the way

Back when Men were Men.....and the JEEP Universal was a basic vehicle designed to do a lot of work and keep right on going.....no creature comforts needed - just a basic vehicle designed to take a lot of abuse, be easy to fix by anyone with the basic parts....and as time went on, have a little fun on the side.

Those were the days and as far as I am concerned, we were better served by the Jeep than the newer vehicles. You can have the newest computerized 4-wheeler they produce today, I prefer the simple, quiet confidence of a vehicle that was built to last.... THE Jeep Universal.


Proven in Battle, glad to be of service at home....