The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Hurricane Jack]

St. Petersburg, Florida 1950's photo by Robert Frank

 

[tropicalbob]

St. Petersburg, Florida 1950's photo by Robert Frank

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Not much has changed, except the hats.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Not much has changed, except the hats.

If you still have 1950's Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs & Cadillacs crusing the streets I'll be on the next plane down.

 

[Frunobulax]

If you still have 1950's Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs & Cadillacs crusing the streets I'll be on the next plane down.

What is the car going by in the background? I'm not good with older cars.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

What is the car going by in the background? I'm not good with older cars.

Pontiac Star Chief or Catalina, not sure which.

 

[Garrett]

At the race track and without a whippet!

France 1926 - Looks like he's got a crease clip in the crown

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Identified as early 1940's

 

[tropicalbob]

If you still have 1950's Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs & Cadillacs crusing the streets I'll be on the next plane down.

Not far south of here they do.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Not far south of here they do.

Can't go there.

 

[jlee562]

Can't go there.

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The back and forth of the travel restrictions (COVID notwithstanding) is really disappointing. I had the opportunity to go back in high school during a period of looser regulations and it was an amazing experience. All the old American cars are taxis now!
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In front of the Capitol in Havana.
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Just some guy without a hat on!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The back and forth of the travel restrictions (COVID notwithstanding) is really disappointing. I had the opportunity to go back in high school during a period of looser regulations and it was an amazing experience. All the old American cars are taxis now!
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In front of the Capitol in Havana.
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Just some guy without a hat on!

Always figured this would be me living there someday, Ernest Hemingway style where the living & loving come cheap, drinking rum, smoking cigars & playing chess on the beach all day. What a retirement!

 

[hatophile]

St. Petersburg, Florida 1950's photo by Robert Frank

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Don't mess with that Granny with the ciggie, she looks tough.

 

[Frunobulax]

Can't go there.

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Nice to see they're also repurposing those little carts they used to bring relief pitchers out from the bullpen in the 1970s.

 

[carouselvic]

Dec. 7 1941

 

[carouselvic]

Times Square at night, 1921.

 

[Zombie_61]

Don't mess with that Granny with the ciggie, she looks tough.

They appear to have had a sale on underbites that year.

 

[carouselvic]

An American soldier stands in the doorway of an apartment house before the Eiffel Tower in March of 1919.

 

[BobHufford]

Before folks carried ATVs in their pickups ...

 

[Louis Mountbatten]

That darn truck has a lot of horse power.

 

[TheGuitarFairy]

That darn truck has a lot of *** appeal. Dang that's niiiiice!