This is comical, almost like Thunderbirds Are Go or something.
Vintage photos....Awesome!
Vintage pics? Anyone? The more I see the more I get into the photos.
Feed me.
I'll kick this snowball rolling....
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Feed me.
I'll kick this snowball rolling....
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pretty coolThat's Lone Wolf Gonzaullas,
a famous Texas Ranger.
Many stories about him but I liked reading these about him doing the El Paso-to-Phoenix automobile road race in 1919 and the little snippet about how he had lost his little java monkey that he kept as a pet.
Lone Wolf Gonzaullas: Texas Ranger, Dallas Resident
Watch as Capt. M. T. Gonzaullas recounts a story from his days as a Texas Ranger.flashbackdallas.com
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Had to look these things up because pretty wild!
Seemingly in use with various forms throughout the years?
Found some pics showing damage from 1949 when a truck explosion happened,
would have been a terrifying event.
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I really like the atmospheric look of this postcard...
A couple of entrance shots...
And,
this old
joint looks like nice digs...
Yeah, had to be crazy thick.
Been watching lots of old Emergency! shows lately...
...and was floored by how dense the smog in L.A. was back then when it is highlighted in certain scenes, when I first noticed it was like wow it's really foggy but then remembered that it was actually smog.
1967 New York International Auto Show.
A few vintage shots from Saudi Arabia
bolded for emphasis.
edit: dig the stack of cassette tapes in the center console too.
yeah,bolded for emphasis.
edit: dig the stack of cassette tapes in the center console too.
love seeing all those old tapes!
Them dudes was rockin' the casbah!
Further inspiration for the lyrics of "Rock the Casbah" originated from Strummer observing the band's manager Bernie Rhodes moaning about The Clash's increasing tendency to perform lengthy songs. Rhodes asked the band facetiously "does everything have to be as long as this rāga?" (referring to the Indian musical style known for its length and complexity). Strummer later returned to his room at the Iroquois Hotel in New York City and wrote the opening lines to the song: "The King told the boogie-men 'you have to let that rāga drop.'"
The song gives a fabulist account of a ban on Western rock music by a Middle Eastern king. The lyrics describe the king's efforts to enforce and justify the ban, and the populace's protests against it by holding rock concerts in temples and squares ("rocking the casbah"). This culminates in the king ordering his military's fighter jets to bomb the protestors; however, after taking off, the pilots ignore his orders and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios, joining the protest and implying the loss of the king's power.
The events depicted in the song are similar to an actual ban on Western music, including rock music, enforced in Iran since the Iranian Revolution. Though classical music and public concerts were briefly permitted in the 1980s and 1990s, the ban was reinstated in 2005, and has remained in force ever since. Western music is still distributed in Iran through black markets, and Iranian rock music artists are forced to record in secret, under threat of arrest.
The song's lyrics feature various Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Sanskrit loan-words, such as "sharif", "bedouin", "sheikh", "kosher", "rāga", "muezzin", "minaret", and "casbah".
1954 Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 7 Bertone
Palm Springs Road Race 1955
As the (perhaps apocryphal) story goes, someone borrowed the outrageously styled BAT 7 concept from its California owner at the time and took it for a race in Palm Springs. After suffering some rear-end damage as a result, those wild wings were chopped off and the BAT was a more ordinary looking car until a future restoration.
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Alfa Romeo Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica 5-7-9d | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | RM Sotheby's
Alfa Romeo Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica 5-7-9d for sale at RM Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction
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Peter Gregg piloting the #68 Datsun 510 at Trans-Am Mid-Ohio Two Five Challenge in 1972.
Not exactly a great racing photo, but something about the composition just clicks for me, how the boy in a yellow shirt is sitting alone atop that post log stump and holding a blue balloon as the racecars quickly go by, just grabs me in the guts as a nice slice of pure Americana.
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Not exactly a great racing photo, but something about the composition just clicks for me, how the boy in a yellow shirt is sitting alone atop that post log stump and holding a blue balloon as the racecars quickly go by, just grabs me in the guts as a nice slice of pure Americana.
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