Cars and Trucks in Vintage Photos

License plate: "Penna. 1907 8267." Salvaged from a grimy real photo postcard.

Five gents pose with their dog and automobile in this real photo postcard. It looks like they were out for a jaunt in a wooded area, and their destination may have been the house that's barely visible at left in the photo.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of I Should Have Known Better - people engaged in potentially risky behavior or suffering the aftereffects of a mishap . I think this was intended to be funny, but it seems more scary than amusing.

See also a cropped version of this real photo postcard.

Cats for the ABC Group (4/14/2017). See also the full version of this real photo postcard.

Handwritten on the back of this real photo postcard: "1920 at Palisades Park. First I ever saw Grandma and Grandpa."

Somewhere along the road in New York state. The girl doesn't seem too pleased at having her picture taken. Printed on the back of this real photo postcard: "Short's Studios, Kingston and Rondout, N.Y." The license plate on the car is "46818 NY."

License plate on front of car: "Middletown Bi-centennial, 1755-1955, July 11th-16th, 1955, Keystone State."

The automobile is a Ford Country Squire station wagon. Handwritten on the back of the photo: "1961."

A view of American suburbia in a vintage slide.

A red-border Kodachrome slide, circa 1959. A couple of guys ride their Hot Rods around the track at Hunt's Pier , an amusement pier located along the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey. Two other rides--Crazy Cups and Tilt-A-Shell--are visible in the background. For additional photos, see the Hot Rods page and the Miscellaneous page (for Crazy Cups) on Ralph Grassi's Funchase site.

A red-border Kodachrome slide, circa 1959. Hot Rods zoom around the track while Satellite Jets fly through the air at Hunt's Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey. For additional photos, see the Hot Rods page and the Miscellaneous page (for Satellite Jets) on Ralph Grassi's Funchase site.

A photo of tents, including wigwams, yurts, etc. for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. A photo from the early days of automobile camping.

Sign on car: "Perry Co. Freckle King, Pigtail Queen." Perry County Sesquicentennial Parade, photo taken at the intersection of West Main and Apple Streets, New Bloomfield, Pa., 1970. For other photos from this parade, see:

Handwritten on the back of the photo: "1345 14th Street No., St. Petersburg, Florida, Wed. morning, Aug. 19th, 1936. All ready to pull out for home." I'm not sure why the photographer decided to hide in the weeds across the street in order to take the picture.

Stamped on the back of this photo: "Aug 18 1949." Posted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park group as an "unintended people's shadows" photo (and there's a dog, too!).

See also Braves Restroom at Wigwam Village Motel No. 2 . I bought these two small and somewhat blurry photos a couple of years ago. They were taken at one of the Wigwam Village Motels designed by Frank Redford, probably motel #2 in Cave City, Kentucky. In this photo (above), a Trading Post sign appears on the small building that's visible between the two teepees. The license plate on the car is 3EP16 but I was unable to determine which state issued the plate. I'm guessing that it was the photographer who left the car door open. The other photo (below) shows the Braves teepee, which was the men's restroom. (Thanks go to john4kc on Flickr for pointing out that the telegraph pole visible near the teepee in the background of this second photo suggests that these photos were probably taken at Wigwam Village Motel #2.)