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Especially a factory dump truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And yet people still ***** about OSHA and the EPA for doing what they do to protect us. Do they sometimes over do it? Yeah, I suppose. Being truly safe isn't always cheap nor convenient but I'm still a big fan....occasionally through gritted teeth in my working years.

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Was with EPA for 30 years, all that we did backfired. Now they have to use a "cure " to reduce the resulting overpopulation.

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Those assembly line photos are great, I'll being that one of the bare cab being put together more than a little bit.

I've got a friend who's dad worked in the anthophyllite and tremolite mine(s) in Idaho in the early 50's and his stories were about the same as the guys in the lead mines in Germany. He has had raspatory issues for years because of it. He said he and other kids actually played in piles of the stuff.

All of us who are over about 65 can remember going in someone's house that had a big sheet of 1/2 inch or so thick Asbestos behind the wood cook stove in the kitchen or the wood/coal stove in the living room. Quite often your mom had a couple of small squares of it to set on the table or counter to put hot pots and pans on. The original siding on my mom's house was most likely Asbestos but it all got pulled off in 1968 when I was in Vietnam and they did a remodel on the house and added a dining room. That siding would be this stuff in this photo. I wish I had that roadster body now.

I blew the dust out of brakes for years not knowing how nasty that stuff was and stopped when a coworker said it bothered his asthma. Now you have a tent to wash it off the backing plates in.

Now I need to study that photo a bit.

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Yes 99% sure those are asbestos shingles? I find it ironic asbestos was mined here at the Copperopolis mine for decades and then when asbestos was finally deemed a "hazardous waste" they dumped it back from where it came from.

https://thediggings.com/gallery/te0v1_no

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Ohhhhh damn I love this one!


https://scontent.fboi1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...04&oe=61A5C44E


Brian

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I had the shingles like that on my old house tested, was well as the installation in the attic, neither had any asbestos. That was nice to know.


Brian

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After seeing these pics, I now know why it's so difficult to replace the rear floors in panels and Suburbans. The entire vehicle was literally built around it.

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Great pics. The hand work to assemble them was and is amazing!!


Again just seeing the floors makes my back ache!!! Even at 19 having to sleep (or try to) on a 2 week trip from LA to Sf to NY in a 52 suburban in just a sleeping bag was brutal.

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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/0d...c5d19791f0.jpg

https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/ass/t559/56a2.jpg

https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/ass/t559/55a2.jpg
Notice the exterior light in the back of the cab? I've never seen that...

https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/ass/t559/55a6.jpg

https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/ass/t559/55a1.jpg


More:
https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/t559ass.html

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Reminds me of the way an Airstream trailer is constructed.

K

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one piece of plywood, my 59 1T lwb panel floor was probably 5ftx9ft in back
it made for a great bedroom/living room :D

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https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/ass/t559/55a2.jpg
Notice the exterior light in the back of the cab? I've never seen that...

That's actually for the interior dome light. The top roof skin is not in yet.

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Sure enough. I didn't notice the imprint for the headliner.

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funny seeing all those manual spot welders hanging for 2 operators to use
now days the pallet with the body indexes forward and then all at once a whole row of robotic spot welders attack multiple pallets

https://www.55-57chevys.com/showroom/ass/t559/55a2.jpg

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1969:

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Cool!

Brian

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^^^A picture of my young adulthood^^^

I was in high school from 1968 to 1972. CERTAIN I would be drafted and go to Viet Nam after school. I lucked out in that my draft lottery number was 49. They classified me 1A, then revised it to 1H for Holding - they stopped drafting just before they would have gotten me.

Sometimes I watch reruns of the "Mannix" tv show just to see L.A. in that era. It was filmed all over here. I see the stores, signs, billboards and especially the cars and trucks of my younger years. So near but so far too. PS: The stories are pretty lame but I still enjoy it.

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Had the misfortune to attend 4 of my High school friends "graduations" from the "University of Rose Hills ". That was in less than 2 months in early 1969. (Tet offensive). In April 69 I heard my physical and draft notice had arrived in same envelope from the Downey Draft board. Not wanting to be a Rose Hills alumnus I enlisted in the USAF and saved my butt. Never cruised sunset strip on Saturday night again.

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I can relate. We knew by '71 that they weren't drafting as aggressively and that we'd probably not be drafted. Then something happened in Eastern Europe with the USSR and I THINK Czechoslovakia?? And I got a notice saying I'd been returned to 1A status. I called the draft board and they said the first 50 numbers had been revised in case we were needed. My buddy with number 71 laughed at me until HE got the same letter, called and found they'd revised up to 75!

Whatever the issue was it blew over and I got returned to 1H but I REALLY thought I should enlist in the Air Force or Navy to avoid being cannon fodder.

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In early 69 is was nearly impossible to get into the Air Force or Navy as all quotas were more than full. Most unfortunates who showed up at the Downey Draft Board were quickly loaded onto USMC busses bound for Pendleton. A Few made into Army. (think Arlo Guthrie's "Alices Restaurant".)

While a still 2s in German Language, I met a USAF recruiter at Whittier College (think Nixon) who was looking specifically for German Interpreters for interrogating captured E German "advisors". He got me a slot but had to get to Wilkes Barre PA to enlist and drove an AD all the way to get there. Thank god I didn't study Spanish, prolly be taking a long dirt nap .

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I know all about Whittier College. I lived my entire life in Whittier until I got divorced from my childhood sweetheart after 20 years of marriage at age 45. I lived just up the street from the college in the last years of our marriage.

Amazing the difference politically between '69 and only '71/'72. A world of difference and on the impact in the lives of young boys.

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About a dozen from El Rancho HS got dirt naps courtesy of SEA. Most were hispanic that thought USMC uniforms were cool. All are still wearing them for eternity. I agree that what you experience from 0 - 20 years sets with you for life. Unfortunately i'm starting to feel like I did when 19 with the govt trying to kill me again.

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Easy guys, we are skirting political stuff here. Back on topic please.

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Credit to Dave Gelinas for these.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...183a902b_b.jpg


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6781f100_k.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/4798/3...2851542e_k.jpg

https:////live.staticflickr.com/8671...7a19ac60_b.jpg

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I remember my dad working for Clicquot club 70 years ago!!! Thanks for the pic and and the memory

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You're welcome. There are a number of pictures from Clicquot club in this album. It looks like it was a fun company to work for.

I highly recommend that folks interested in vintage photography check out more of Mr. Gelinas work. There are many, many great photos that do not have AD or TF pictures. Browsing the albums is a great way to spend a few minutes.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117891934@N07/albums/

Some more on topic pictures:

https://live.staticflickr.com/3773/1...b0c15dfc_h.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/7175/1...1adcc00a_h.jpg

Look closely for the AD
https://live.staticflickr.com/5546/1...75c647db_n.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/7421/1...9a02bb68_h.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/5567/1...a55762b0_n.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/3861/1...7f899c49_h.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/2876/3...3bb56a0f_k.jpg

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If i can find it my Dad drove a delivery truck for Clicqout and Genesee Cream Ale in Rochester NY from 47 -57. I do believe his truck was an AD and in my dimmest memories do recall seeing the one in the pic at one of the family Picnics hosted by the Company back then.

BTW my 54 (see link below) would have fit right in a Las Vegas Strip pic.. Both myself and it were often regulars there from late 69 thru mid 73. To earn gas $$$$ I would haul a full load of Airmen down that night and Pick them up later that next morning. I do believe my original bed was ruined by "sick" drunks on the way back!!!! Later When i worked part time at Caesars Palace my boss told me to make sure i parked it out of sight at the far end of the lot where customers couldn't see it!! I didn't wear my Caesars Toga "uniform'" back to base as my legs would stick to the Naugahyde seats on 115F days!!!!

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Very cool story... Love it.

Here's one from NH I have to post.
https://live.staticflickr.com/430/19...a88ce05c_h.jpg

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Thanks for those pictures. I love to see pics like those as although none of them were from places where I lived the general look and feel, and dress, could have been. I'm 80 and pics like those make me wish for the good old days.

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gsbngfn

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What the heck is gsbngfn?
That's great yard art, other plants could easily grow in the existing foliage, lol.

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I thought the same thing. I felt my plans for after high school were go to Vietnam, then decide what to do if I came back. My lottery number was 19.

This would be handy to have

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Nice. Is that an armored AD????

Speaking of lottery. I was on the drill pad at Lackland AFB (full pickle suit) when the lottery was announced. My odds of being drafted were very low if not none at all. Recall much cursing.

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If you try to post a picture without text the forum software complains. I'm guessing that's text.

When trucks get old they start growing "hair" out of strange places.

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DAMN, I thought my #49 was lousy.

My same thoughts while I was a Freshman & Sophomore. Not so much the last two years and then I got the Selective Service envelope after I graduated. I stood there considering if I should open the latter or drive over and enlist!

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so true, so true :D:D:D

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Exactly! Some random keystrokes to satisfy the software.

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it's cool looking back at those old pics and seeing what people wore "to town" compared to today. these days everybody seems to want to dress like they got their clothes from the thrift store dumpster, more holes than jeans, and they actually pay big bucks for jeans that have no knees, lol.

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1961 Chevy TV commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwkOPwOb1Y