1955 Street View

rusty6 · Jan 23, 2019

Half a century or more before google street view was heard of. I call this one street view 1955. Just a zoomed in shot on some of the crowd watching the 1955 parade in our little town. I didn't take the pictures and was too young to remember the parade.

johnlobb · Jan 24, 2019

Great pic! Thanks for sharing. I had a '39 Ford that looked a lot like the '40 in your pic.

Gene Dotson · Jan 24, 2019

Nice picture. Must be a brand new IH pick up.

Philip d · Jan 24, 2019

Great picture Rusty,sure would like to spend some time in that
era. No one has much bad to say about life in the 50?s.

wjytexas · Jan 24, 2019

in south central Texas no AC in the summer was a bad thing and traveling in a 1950 dark blue Ford without AC was a bad thing. I guess my point is, no AC was a bad thing.

miner09 · Jan 24, 2019

We got a fan in 1953 for the house (NE Tex)and we were in heaven. Was a lot cooler we thought. Times were similar back then.We didn't even lot the house doors.

pete 23 · Jan 24, 2019

Drove our 41 Chev from Minn to Atlanta first week in August in 55 with my new wife. Air conditioning, what was that.

rusty6 · Jan 24, 2019

Gene, that IH L series pickup would have been a couple of years old but thats close enough to new for me. I don't know how hot it was in the
summer of 55 but we only had one day this past summer that I'd call hot. No need for AC in a house here. Close to -30 this morning.
And yes, that 40 Ford wagon caught my eye. Somewhere across the street my dad's 39 Deluxe sedan would have been parked that day.

steel · Jan 24, 2019

Is that a badger or what?

rusty6 · Jan 24, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:12:46 01/24/19) Is that a badger or what?

A rock. Typical of every little hill in this part of the country. The guy that trenched the underground power lines in about 1992 said this was one of the rockiest pieces of ground he ever worked in. I recall walking around that rock for years as a kid. As an older kid, I got busy and dug it out. I'll show you the big one out by the threshing machine one of these days when the snow is gone.

Billy Shafer · Jan 24, 2019

We lived in Southlake Tx. Not even a wide spot in the road.We had the swamp cooler in the window. Some nights it got pretty cool. AC was something only rich people had. Slept outside most nights.

Billy Shafer · Jan 24, 2019

Remember those hot plastic seat covers. That stuck to everything. My grandmother also had them in the house.

Smalltowner · Jan 24, 2019

I remember annual family trip to grandparents in Arkansas in August in 1951 dodge. Six kids under 12 for 400 miles, took 8 hours. We always traveled at night because of the heat. Main thing I remember is hot ashes from dad?s cigarette blowing into back seat. That dodge sedan was a smooth riding cruiser.

cuby · Jan 24, 2019

The building looks like the old Aud.co.Ia.court house in my town.

James Howell · Jan 24, 2019

"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]traveling in a 1950 dark blue Ford without AC was a bad thing.[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

About the same in a black 1950 Chevy Fleetline.

Dr. Walt · Jan 24, 2019

Yep, My first car was a 1954 Chevy Sedan, 6 cyl. engine with 3 on the tree. Anyone remember the tubular Swamp Coolers that clipped to the
outside top of the doors and blew cooled air through a 2 inch opening of the window?

cool hand · Jan 24, 2019

Growing up in '40s - '50s we four boys slept upstairs year around. We finally got a window fan in the '50s to help in the hot summertime, but Mom insisted it be turned off at bedtime. If it was allowed to run overnight, it was absolutely guaranteed to cause pneumonia or other dread illness within a day or two!

wjytexas · Jan 24, 2019

yep, and the water bags hung in front

rusty6 · Jan 24, 2019

Never needed any of that fancy cooling equipment here. Although I do recall on the rare occasion that the old 52 Merc would overheat enough
to get vapour lock. Dad would have to get the stone jar of water out of the trunk to pour on the fuel pump. I guess it worked. I really can't
remember. Here we were about 1965.

Rich'sToys · Jan 24, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:26:33 01/24/19) Growing up in '40s - '50s we four boys slept upstairs year around. We finally got a window fan in the '50s to help in the hot summertime, but Mom insisted it be turned off at bedtime. If it was allowed to run overnight, it was absolutely guaranteed to cause pneumonia or other dread illness within a day or two!

Yep! I can relate to that. Or if was left running, under NO circumstances could we have it blowing directly on us for the reasons you mentioned.

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