Random Object Photographs

[rog8732]

Thanks for the "how-to".

Nice. Actually another NICE one bigwheelzip. I spotted the 1955 Chevy in the background, falls right in with the 58' picture

 

[RobertJ.]

This is Pinnacle Peak, a landmark NE of Phoenix. Taken during monsoon season when the clouds are often very dramatic.

John

Ansel Adams would have been pleased with that shot!

 

[Targets Guy]

Wanted to give a shout out to my last Uncle. He passed last night at the age of 94.

He was a combat medic in Europe in 1944, 1945. Assigned to Patton's 3rd Army. He landed on Omaha Beach on D+1 driving a weapons carrier with three doctors aboard. He was 20 years old.

Here he is in 1943 with my Mom (she is gone as well).

 

[opaul]

Soon to be history and forgotten. Old family shed that served as a chicken house, a tool shed and then a storage shed before giving up the ghost.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Wanted to give a shout out to my last Uncle. He passed last night at the age of 94.

They were very attractive. Sorry for your family's loss TG.

 

[KalamazooKid]

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[opaul]

 

[whitecoyote]

1958 Swiss Army Bicycle

 

[Targets Guy]

 

[Targets Guy]

 

[Targets Guy]

 

[bigwheelzip]

I'm cheating again, because I didn't take this photo. It's another pic I found in my in-laws albums. When I saw the top picture of scattered sandbag bunkers, it puzzled me and I thought of this "random objects" thread.

The back of the picture said Danang Airport North Perimeter, Monkey Mountain.

The lower photo is Johnny Moreno, the friend of my MIL who sent it. He did K-9 base security at Danang.

 

[snubbyfan]

 

[cmort666]

 

[bigwheelzip]

Long ago, my son's favorite piece of playground equipment was a tall rocket at Wantagh Park, but it disappeared after a park renovation. Decades later it "lands" 30 miles away in Patchogue. Have to find out if it's installed somewhere, so I can take his kids there to play.

An old photo of it at the park. Insurers probably didn't like it.

 

[soFlaNative]

Played on that rocket at Scott Park in the 60's.
Climbed the outside, tricky but could be done. Not much of a payoff, no
where to perch and the other kids would chuck clods from the ballfield for target practice.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Played on that rocket at Scott Park in the 60's.

You FL guys still have cool rockets to play on. Saw this Orion Mars Mission crew capsule on I95 in Florida recently.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Here's a few shots I took today for you car fans - this is a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette - the first year they were made. The first pic is a rather artsy shot of the rear of the car; the second is a view of the dashboard. The third is a front view. These had in-line six cylinder engines, all-fiberglass bodies and were equipped with 2-speed Powerglide automatic transmissions.

John

 

[Targets Guy]

That is a beauty. Wonderful lines.

 

[Tom S.]

Here's a few shots I took today for you car fans - this is a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette - the first year they were made. The first pic is a rather artsy shot of the rear of the car; the second is a view of the dashboard. The third is a front view. These had in-line six cylinder engines, all-fiberglass bodies and were equipped with 2-speed Powerglide automatic transmissions.

John

Gorgeous car! Amazing what the Corvette has morphed into today. BTW: the two speed Powergluide transmission was a real workhorse of the Chevrolet division, and has a somewhat tarnished (though undeserved) reputation. Chevrolet made multiple versions of the fabled trans, and mated them up to almost every engine they offered in the 50's to early/mid 60's from the inline 6 to the hefty 409. They may even have offered one for the inline 4 cylinder offered in the early Chevy II's, but I'm not sure. Lots of early dragsters used modified versions of the trans as well.

Just some useless bits of trivia rattling around in my head!