Vintage Ephemera

[ooba tooba]

Old local brewery sales slip from 1900 and a free carriage ride ticket from the train station to the saloon circa 1880

 

[ooba tooba]

These are handwritten business statements by 2 of the biggest brewers in my towns history. Peter Lenk and John Huebner. It lists ingredients for their beers and amounts needed and costs etc…

 

[Nick Danger]

A girlfriend gave me a newspaper from 1944 Socorro, New Mexico. The classified ads have lots of listings for used tires. I read it and was puzzled until I realized that all the rubber was going for the war effort and civilians didn't get to buy tires. I'll have to find it.

 

[d42jeep]

I recently went through Grandpa Al’s things that he brought home with him after his time stationed at Camp Hood in Texas during WW2. Apparently Camp Hood’s name has been changed to Fort Hood, inexplicably named after a Confederate general.
-Don

 

[engineer2]

Chicago area people will know this one.

 

[kyrbz]

 

[d42jeep]

That is great Powr-Kraft information. What is the date on those catalog pages? I see a couple of my sets there.
-Don

 

[kyrbz]

That is great Powr-Kraft information. What is the date on those catalog pages? I see a couple of my sets there.
-Don

It’s from a 1967 Montgomery Wards catalog

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks! Here is set 19
Here is set 20 (plus a few wrenches that came with it).

-Don

 

[ArmyVW_GuyInTX]

Great old Advert

 

[ArmyVW_GuyInTX]

Two page advert I framed ages ago for a friend.

 

[kyrbz]

 

[kyrbz]

 

[four.cycle]

1951 Oldsmobile assembly line

1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 four-door sedan

1956 Chevrolet Bel-Air

1956 Pontiac Star Chief Custom two-door Catalina

 

[four.cycle]

1956 Automotive Science Digest pp 34 Packard Clipper article

1957 Buick Roadmaster Model 73 four-door Riviera

1956 Motor Age pp 39 Austin Hillman Mercedes Simca Troll new models

1957 Motor Age pp 103-104 Ford Mercury 383 430 V8 engine article

 

[four.cycle]

1958 Chevrolet Bel-Air assembly line

1957 Motor Age "Crowd Pleasers" article

1959 Buick

1958 Motor Age pp 8 1959 Chevrolet two-door Sport Coupe

 

[piehammer]

My Great Grandfather William Hamilton Hope (WHHope) was an illustrator and this is an original piece he did many years ago that was handed down to me from my father. I did some research on the phrase "Standing the Gaff" and found this referring to the William Davis Historical Marker:

"The phrase, “Standing the Gaff,” is a direct reference to the early days of the 1925 strike, when Besco vice- president J.E. McLurg taunted the striking miners in an interview, declaring “Let them stay out two months or six months, it matters not; eventually they will have to come to us . . . . They can’t stand the gaff.” [2] McLurg’s intention was to indicate that Besco would make life so difficult for the striking workers that they would be unable to remain on strike. In positioning this phrase at the centre of the Davis monument, its creators indicate that the memory of William Davis now exists as a symbol of labour solidarity and working-class struggle. The phrase indicates that current workers must “stand the gaff” and refers to how one of their own, William Davis, paid the ultimate price for doing that."

I don't know if the artwork was ever used, but it is due to be framed and will hang proudly in our home.

 

[piehammer]

One more original illustration from my Great Grandfather that I love.

 

[wrenchguy]

Some awesome right there. Thanks.

 

[kyrbz]

My Great Grandfather William Hamilton Hope (WHHope) was an illustrator and this is an original piece he did many years ago that was handed down to me from my father. I did some research on the phrase "Standing the Gaff" and found this referring to the William Davis Historical Marker:

"The phrase, “Standing the Gaff,” is a direct reference to the early days of the 1925 strike, when Besco vice- president J.E. McLurg taunted the striking miners in an interview, declaring “Let them stay out two months or six months, it matters not; eventually they will have to come to us . . . . They can’t stand the gaff.” [2] McLurg’s intention was to indicate that Besco would make life so difficult for the striking workers that they would be unable to remain on strike. In positioning this phrase at the centre of the Davis monument, its creators indicate that the memory of William Davis now exists as a symbol of labour solidarity and working-class struggle. The phrase indicates that current workers must “stand the gaff” and refers to how one of their own, William Davis, paid the ultimate price for doing that."

I don't know if the artwork was ever used, but it is due to be framed and will hang proudly in our home.

Very cool

 

[c1504]

Those are so cool!

 

[kyrbz]

Citroen DS cutaway drawing from old French newspaper clipping

 

[ooba tooba]

1958 Chevrolet Bel-Air assembly line

1957 Motor Age "Crowd Pleasers" article

1959 Buick

1958 Motor Age pp 8 1959 Chevrolet two-door Sport Coupe

Awesome pics, thank you

 

[four.cycle]

1959 Triumph TR-3


1960 Chevrolet four-door Sport Sedan

1960 DeSoto two-door hardtop

1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix four-door hardtop

1960 Dodge Dart Seneca Pioneer Phoenix

1960 Dodge Matador

 

[four.cycle]

1960 Ford Falcon

1960 Oldsmobile 88 98

1960 Oldsmobile Super 88

1960 Plymouth Savoy

1961 Pontiac Monte Carlo

1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible

1969 Dodge Charger R/T

 

[four.cycle]

truckload of Buick

truckloads of 1955 Fords

 

[ooba tooba]

Contribution courtesy of my brother

 

[kyrbz]

 

[four.cycle]

1903 Cadillac advertisement

1904 Peerless Motor Car Co. advertisement
1908 Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal pp 18 Pope Automobile advertisement

1909 Hart-Kraft Motor Co. advertisement

 

[ooba tooba]

Another local company. Biggest wagon producer for a number of years. The cast iron wagon yoke piece is mine

 

[ooba tooba]

Some Overland delivery vehicles from 1920.

 

[ooba tooba]

Here’s a Western Union telegram a couple of days after Japan surrendered informing my great grandfather to report back to Willys Overland to work the following Monday. Japan surrendered August 15, and would sign official documents in early September. My great grandfather worked there 10 years from 1935 until just after the war in ‘45. This was towards the end of his working life. He was born in 1877 (While General Ulysses Grant was still in office!) here’s an old copper plate of him while he was young, and at the factory in 1944 (closeups of his work badge and time card)

 

[kyrbz]

Some Soap Box Derby stuff

 

[kyrbz]

Soap Box Derby helmet from 1956

 

[kyrbz]

Ads from 1950's Fortune magazine

 

[four.cycle]

is it outboard season already?


1958 Scott-Atwater outboard motor advertisement (Swim suit by Cole of California)

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Couple I came across when looking for some telephony ephemera.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Here are some I dug up for the Bell thread. Jan.1911

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

 

[JAYoung]

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