Eye-catching black and whites

[martc]

[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Not two images you'd expect to see together - Sophia Loren and a Thames van.

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Not two images you'd expect to see together - Sophia Loren and a Thames van.

I thought you would have said a WW2 era Jeep and a Landie 😁

[lesapandre]

I think she is filming The Millionairess - 1960 in London. With Peter Sellers.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, lesapandre said:

I think she is filming The Millionairess - 1960 in London. With Peter Sellers.

I saw her most recent film earlier this year. She's still got it.

[Rab]

[somewhatfoolish]

  

On 8/27/2021 at 11:05 PM, Dick Longbridge said:

Another director's cut of Blade Runner, or just the set of Hanover Street.

[martc]

Noo Yoik, in the past -

Financial District, Manhattan - 16th July 1936, which was a Thursday. Photo by Berenice Abbott

Approach to the Brooklyn Bridge - 1909.

Looking south on 5th Ave from W 52nd St in Midtown, Manhattan - 1894

The same view today, soz not B&W, get over it.

Times Square. No idea what's going on.

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Noo Yoik, in the past -

Financial District, Manhattan - 16th July 1936, which was a Thursday. Photo by Berenice Abbott

Times Square. No idea what's going on.

Naked cowboy; weirdo hustler who panhandles tourists, so normal for Times Sq.

The other one is Broad St looking north toward Wall St, the greek revival is Federal Hall.

[Remspoor]

[Dyslexic Viking]

Svalbard Norway

[Dyslexic Viking]

Rural Norwegian Taxis.

 

 

Spring thaw

 

Åseral Norway

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Oslo Norway

[martc]

[martc]

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union occupied General Motors' Fisher Body Plants No.1 and No.2 in Flint, Michigan, in 1934. The strike led to better pay and working hours.

[Madman Of The People]

18 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

1950s Norwegians seem to have had a strange attraction to Yank tanks.  What was the reason for this?

 

[Andrew353w]

19 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Svalbard Norway

That Skoda 440/445/450 is on the rarity scanner! Nice one! 

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, Madman Of The People said:

1950s Norwegians seem to have had a strange attraction to Yank tanks.  What was the reason for this?

The reason was that few cars withstood the harsh conditions here and the American cars were among the few that did so they were popular. Was not unusual in the 60's and see American cars from the 30's still in use. Until the 70's we had mostly just gravel roads that turned to mud in the spring and harsh winters and hot summers so Norway were hard on the cars.

Can also add that from the war until October 1, 1960, we had rationing of cars when the state thought cars were a luxury. But you could buy cars from Russia and the Eastern Bloc as we had an agreement on the sale of fish in exchange for us buying cars. So all other cars had to have a permit to buy. A common way to get around this was to buy cars in Sweden disassemble them also import them little by little as parts and then put them back together.

[Andrew353w]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Can also add that from the war until October 1, 1960, we had rationing of cars when the state thought cars were a luxury. But you could buy cars from Russia and the Eastern Bloc as we had an agreement on the sale of fish in exchange for us buying cars. So all other cars had to have a permit to buy. A common way to get around this was to buy cars in Sweden disassemble them also import them little by little as parts and then put them back together.

That explains why there were many road tests in the 1950s and 60s of Eastern European cars done in Scandinavia. I've read tests on East German built DKWs and similar vehicles, all of which were tested in either Sweden or Norway. The testers also commented that the 2-stroke engines, fitted to many of these cars, started immediately, regardless of the extreme cold! Maybe Norway would be a good source of spare parts for the putative restorer of a 1960s Skoda Octavia......

[Dr_Slow]

On 31/08/2021 at 11:15, Remspoor said:

Barking Station, there used to be a Wimpy on one side, just beyond the corner of the two storey office block closest. The office block under construction on the other side housed a Safeway on the ground floor. Although that Wimpy is long gone, I was surprised to find they still exist (unlike Safeway),

[Dyslexic Viking]

6 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

That explains why there were many road tests in the 1950s and 60s of Eastern European cars done in Scandinavia. I've read tests on East German built DKWs and similar vehicles, all of which were tested in either Sweden or Norway. The testers also commented that the 2-stroke engines, fitted to many of these cars, started immediately, regardless of the extreme cold! Maybe Norway would be a good source of spare parts for the putative restorer of a 1960s Skoda Octavia......

Not many of these have survived when most were scrapped. So parts are not the easiest either. My father's uncle's first car was a tired Skoda in the 60's and it was dumped in the Sognefjord when it was worn out. Such was the fate of most of them. 

[Richard_FM]

15 hours ago, martc said:

Looks like a still from the rarely screened crossover between On The Buses & Easy Rider!

[Skut]

[Remspoor]

On 9/1/2021 at 7:48 AM, martc said:

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a biker by the toe
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
My Sargent told me
To pick the very bad one
And you are  it.

[Remspoor]

[martc]

More '70's Noo Yoik action -

[martc]

[Rab]

Photographer. Enrique Metinides. Mexico.

[georgeinabz]

More '70's Noo Yoik action -

Needs arresting just for the pants


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