Our Trucks Doing What They Did - Vintage Photo Thread

[MiraclePieCo]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Id be happy with even one named M. Fokker! Ours up and closed along with subway and chase bank!!! DQs are 40 and 70 miles one way depending if you go north or south on Coastal 101.

No DQ in Brookings anymore? I used to stop there every trip to the beach. I have a collection of a dozen of their Christmas glasses from a whole year of visits to Brookings.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Just noticed post 82: I didn't know when I made that comment that I would be done about two weeks later.

Last day worked was Feb 7; retired effective 3/1/2019. Total time with GM was 39 years 7 months.

K

SLACKER! You couldn't hold out the extra 5 months to make an even 40 years?

But seriously, HUGE congratulations on retiring.

I retired at the end of 2017 with 26 years of service from Metro in L.A. working on Light Rail and Highway projects as the Design & Construction Quality Manager (other service added up to 31 years on the clock) and worked every day since I was 16 years old. 47 years in total and that was more than plenty for me. I hope you still have your health, my best to you and all the people that have managed to be able to retire!

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

No DQ in Brookings anymore? I used to stop there every trip to the beach. I have a collection of a dozen of their Christmas glasses from a whole year of visits to Brookings.

No DQ in Gold beach anymore. No fast food at all unless you count Grocery Store fried chicken. Gold beach is already dead just decaying now. Brookings is getting a new one and prolly tear down the old one. Theres a pic of pre 54 AD hanging there (and other older DQ's) its painted white with DQ all over it.

[1project2many]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Brian

Wow. I love it. So sleek. Just think of the cost for white sidewalls that large.

[MARTINSR]

Is that sucker beautiful or what! Damn what an awesome truck.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

[MiraclePieCo]

So many questions: How did they get it up there? Are they ever going to tie it down? And lastly...WHY?

I think they're going to have the same results as this boat hauler:

https://youtu.be/kxFx8_z6o4o?t=7


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[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

So many questions: How did they get it up there? Are they ever going to tie it down? And lastly...WHY?

I think they're going to have the same results as this boat hauler:

https://youtu.be/kxFx8_z6o4o?t=7


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What the heck, it's only about a million dollars for that thing.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

This is a cool one, San Francisco I believe.

Brian

[1project2many]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

So many questions: How did they get it up there? Are they ever going to tie it down? And lastly...WHY?

I think they're going to have the same results as this boat hauler:

https://youtu.be/kxFx8_z6o4o?t=7


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Little known fact: The guy leaning on the cab in the old photo is grandfather to the guy who does marketing for US Post Office. "If it fits, it ships."

Strangely enough, there's a rollover on the highway nearby involving a flatbed that was hauling a post office truck. "If it ships, it's not gonna get there today."

https://www.facebook.com/manchesteri...type=3&theater

[Russell Ashley]

Originally Posted by 1project2many

Wow. I love it. So sleek. Just think of the cost for white sidewalls that large.

I love it, wonder if this truck still exists.

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

This is a cool one, San Francisco I believe.

Brian

SF for sure. Coit Tower right. Can't walk around like that anymore due to people piles everywhere.

[MARTINSR]

LOLOLOLOL, OMG how stupid of me I didn't see Coit Tower! LOLOL Geeeez, I have been in that thing a number of times for goodness sakes.

This is the corner of Market and Kearny streets. I sat literally a block from there watching the Giants World Series parade in 2010.

Thanks for waking me up!

Brian

[MARTINSR]

This is a neat one in that it's my home town! If there was a Buick in that photo I may be in it! LOL This is at the "Five corners" in the Irvington district of Fremont. My mom grew up in Irvington, when it was a town before Fremont joined a few of these towns in 1956. That building straight ahead with the opening on the corner is an auto repair shop that my uncle Joe worked at. There is not a Burger King there, but that's a good part of my family's history now too, it is where my wife's first job was.

The second picture is of my Uncle Art and his to be wife in a parade right there on the street where that AD is a number of years before. The last one is my mom working at her first job just to the right of where this photo was taken only a few hundred feet away. And the last one with my mom holding my sister with the 36 Ford was taken only a few hundred yards from this photo at five corners.
Yeah, I have a LOT of photos from Irvington.

Brian

[RyanPartridge]

Old push trucks...

[MARTINSR]

How about that trailer! Everything was art back then, even the working trailer hauling cars.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Brian

[MARTINSR]

[1project2many]

Brian, you've been posting some cool photos. I have no idea how the old ones are colorized so well but it's neat to see. And I really love the Art Deco trailer hauling those old cars.

Here are a couple of photos here that I don't think I've shared before.

[MARTINSR]

Very cool!

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Hope everyone was ok, I know the AD didn't fair so well.



Brian

[MARTINSR]

Brian

[1project2many]

Couple more...

[MARTINSR]

[vintovka]

That pic was a standard feature at many DQs including the ancient one from the 50's in Brookings OR. They knocked it down last week and built a brand new one. I hope the pic was saved and transferred over.