Vintage Photo Of The Day

[john k]

Anyone notice the statue on top the Yuengling store chimney?

[muddy]

Anyone notice the statue on top the Yuengling store chimney?

Good eye! That is Henry Clay! Erected in 1855, in his honor. He imposed tariffs on foreign coal and steel.  This building in on centre street, Pottsville Pa. Pottsville is the county seat, of Schuylkill County (the county I was born and raised). Northern Schuylkill was (and still is) a major source of anthracite coal. Therefore Clay's tariffs we're very helpful to the area, in keeping local jobs, and economy going.

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[Rural53]

Wow! That's one heavy duty dozer -

That is a mid-1940s International TD 18 crawler tractor hauling more than 20 sleighs of pulp wood for the Great Northern Pulp & Paper Company. Before i/c engines there was steam.

[john k]

Those steam crawlers pulled tons of logs, and really didnt have much for brakes.   The steersman sat out front, signalling the engineer with the whistle.  Many times the hills were too steep, the crew could only jump for their lives, before the rig enbedded itself in the trees.  Plus being a steamer, low man had to keep the fire going all night during the north woods winter, oh fun.

[muddy]

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[john k]

 More great service stations.  28 cents in 1960 was a bit high, I remember driving right past stations with 26 cent gas in 1968..  Surely there would be 24 cents just down the street.  Anybody remember when every new tire was wrapped?  Remember wading through yards of wrap in the 60s, then suddenly by 1975 the tires were shipped naked!

[muddy]

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[jabberwoki]

That pic makes me sad for selling my 67 442.

[torqueman2002]

That looks like my MG ....
But it can't be, I'd remember that gas-up for sure! 

[goodfellow]

That looks like my MG ....
But it can't be, I'd remember that gas-up for sure! 

I drove a few "B"s back in the day, and at the time there were several car washes that featured bikini clad girls hand washing and detailing during the summer months. It was a great time to be a rag top driver and show up at the car wash. The girls at that time all seemed to love the small British and European sports cars. 

[muddy]

That looks like my MG ....
But it can't be, I'd remember that gas-up for sure! 

I drove a few "B"s back in the day, and at the time there were several car washes that featured bikini clad girls hand washing and detailing during the summer months. It was a great time to be a rag top driver and show up at the car wash. The girls at that time all seemed to love the small British and European sports cars.

Quite the lady's man back in the day huh?

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[goodfellow]

That looks like my MG ....
But it can't be, I'd remember that gas-up for sure! 

I drove a few "B"s back in the day, and at the time there were several car washes that featured bikini clad girls hand washing and detailing during the summer months. It was a great time to be a rag top driver and show up at the car wash. The girls at that time all seemed to love the small British and European sports cars.

Quite the lady's man back in the day huh?

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Girls usually liked those cars from afar; up and until they had to ride in them for extended periods. Driving a sports car in those days was a double edged sword. In the summer they were hot and sticky (most had no AC), and most girls hated to be in those cars when it was hot, humid and gross. Then in the winter the thin vinyl rag top made it very cold while the anemic heaters/blowers could never make the cars comfortably warm.

In '82 I traded in my last MGB for a Chevrolet Camaro. It had a V8, T-Tops, AC, great stereo, cruise control, 5 speed manual, and most of all --- it was reliable. Now THAT was a car that girls really enjoyed to be driven in.