Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Sunday, June 21, 2015
payday on the south ramp
Found on http://www.bls.ch/d/unternehmen/fotogalerie-history.php thanks to Hendrik!
The wheels... lightweight, simple... genius idea so the guy pedaling doesn't tire out as fast!
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
the 1937 Brauks 8, front end is a Terraplane, the rear is a DeSoto
crazy looking little thing huh?
Thanks to Vector! http://vectorville.blogspot.com/2015/03/1937-brauks-8.html
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Thursday, June 11, 2015
the Don Patricio Causeway to Padre Island.
The wooden causeway was built on pilings by a man named Sam Robertson and opened on July 4, 1927. Robertson drove the first automobile across. For the first time, the mainland was joined to the island and a steady stream of traffic crossed the causeway, 1,800 cars the first month and 2,500 the second.
Found on https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTexas
Sam Robertson founded San Benito, served as a scout for Army forces chasing Pancho Villa, and enlisted in World War I, where he went to France as a colonel in command of the 22nd Railroad Engineers.
Back home after the war, Robertson had plans for the last frontier in Texas, Padre Island. He was one of the first to understand the island’s great appeal. With three investors from Kansas City, he bought the island from Patrick F. Dunn with plans to develop both ends of the island. He planned to build a 110-mile toll road down the length of the island, called the Ocean Beach Driveway, and he built the Don Patricio Causeway from below Flour Bluff to the island, named in honor of Pat Dunn.
The wooden causeway built on pilings opened on July 4, 1927. Robertson drove the first automobile across. For the first time, the mainland was joined to the island and a steady stream of traffic crossed the causeway, 1,800 cars the first month and 2,500 the second.
http://www.caller.com/opinion/columnists/murphy-givens/railroad-engineer-built-first-causeway-to-the
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
I've never seen a car show up to a concours with a motorcycle mounted on the back bumper... 1925 Lincoln and 1923 Ace
even has a fatman steering wheel
and here is how it was mounted
Monday, June 8, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
the LA parking enforcement building (In Santa Monica on Sepuvalda) resembles a parking meter, with coin slots and 12-hour meter markings
you can compare the reality with the artists concept
what is clear is that the designer has never seen a parking meter. Unlike a gumball machine, parking meters do not seem to have ever had a slide mechanism to insert the coins, they had slots. The awning over the doors seems to be a coin insertslide mechanism. And I looked on google, and can't find ANY old meters with 1 through 12 on them. 1 though 10 seems to be the closest
Driving city-owned white cars and a cluster of tow trucks, hundreds of Los Angeles parking enforcement officers moved through the streets of Echo Park on Wednesday in a procession to honor a fallen colleague.
Henry Medina, 47, of Alhambra, was the first traffic officer in the history of the city's Department of Transportation to die of injuries sustained in the line of duty. Medina died May 20 1997, after being struck by a car as he was impounding an illegally parked vehicle in Hollywood.
In a gesture of solidarity, parking enforcement officers from Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Seattle also attended the services.
http://archinect.com/people/project/19752092/west-los-angeles-parking-enforcement-facility-henry-medina-building/19764145
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