1965 Amphicar, Model 770 — 1965
Posted on 02/26/2019 5:35:41 AM PST by vannrox
These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner
Well I’m not braggin’ babe so don’t put me down
But I’ve got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don’t even try
‘Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly
– Little Deuce Coupe, the Beach Boys
1965 Amphicar, Model 770 — 1965
You like our post ‘The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome‘ so much that we combined our wit and came with another: ‘The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome.’ This one. Although who needs roads when you have an Amphicar (see above)?
The headline might be familiar, but the images in this great set of Kodachrome slides from when Americans in American-made cars explored the country are original.
Yellowstone 1967
Homosassa Springs — December 1968
Feeding the Buick.
Las Vegas at Night — 1967
Under the Fremont Hotel marquee
Having a Wonderful Vacation — 1969
Tiny Trailer — 1965
Bandshell, Sanford, FL – Early 50s
Bandshell on Lake Monroe (St. John’s River) in Sanford, Florida. Submarine Chaser SC679 sits ready.
Andersen’s — Buellton, CA 1961
San Francisco, California — 1966
Corner of Powell and Ellis looking down Powell towards O’Farrell.
Times Square, New York City – 1964
In the Driveway, Middletown, NY — 1960
Las Vegas — 1961
Teepee Drive-in / Buffalo Burgers
Elmhurst Blizzard 1967
Leaving L.A. — 1962
Stretch of coastline near L.A. lined with petticoat palms.
Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco — 1962
General Motors Concept Car — 1964
Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii, 1967
A cream 1955 Chevy Bel Air with surfboards in tow is braking as it crosses Lewers St. on a green arrow. The Ala Moana Building’s “Top of Waikiki” rotating restaurant can be seen above and behind the distinctive Bank of Hawaii / Galleria tower.
41 Buick — Clearwater Beach, FL Causeway
Period photo taken on Clearwater Memorial Causeway (or RT. 60/Gulf-to-Bay) facing east from Clearwater Beach.
Corvette, Middletown, NY — 1960
Mid-Century Motels, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida — 1969
Pioneer Auto Museum, Murdo, South Dakota — 1965
Badlands Petrified Gardens — July 1965
Ranch Store, Cactus Flat, SD — July 1965
Dunedin Beach, FL — 1966
Escondido Bowl and a Red Ford Galaxie – 1966
A fire-engine red 1962 Ford Galaxie rinses off at a Chevron under a googie-riffic sign in Escondido, California.
1956 Chevy Bel Air at Spring Break, Ft. Lauderdale 1966
Photos and captions via ElektroSpark
I made a thread from this video a few years ago. It just drips with nostalgia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYdaanmTcNc
“We failed to defend it properly against the radicalism that arose in the mid-to-late Sixties. And then we elected those “former” radicals to office, in large numbers.”
You summed it up perfectly. Hindsight really is 20/20.
First page I have ever bookmarked from Free Republic . Where is the Corvette now ?
25.9 cent gas!
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Yes, BUT consider 5 grand was semi rich and 10 had you ‘’itting in tall cotton...
My first ship had cigarettes .90 a carton and/or .10 a pack. On my (almost) 75 per month didn’t always have enough to buy a carton of butts so tried to buy enough on payday to carry you...not sure if a limit on how many one could buy at a time..
for later
PP, thanks for the memories.
Though I was blind at the time, my parents are owed a debt
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In 1956 my mother pulled me out of school in New York State 32 in my Class of 57 and moved me, her & my younger sister to California.
I know I was a handful - not wanting to leave in my Senior year - she was driving a 2 door 52 Chevy coupe pulling a 32 or so foot housetrailer.
I ‘hated’ her for it and the trip in general, so bad I quit school on my 17th bd and joined the Navy.
Anyhoo, back around the ‘turn of the century’ (remember when WE used to just read about that) I had to make a delivery to Las Vegas and took the Southern route. I was way ahead of schedule and I had an opportunity to ‘check out’ the old Rt 66.. and was amazed at the narrow highway and the curves and hills etc and just couldn’t picture my ‘tiny’ mother fighting that while pulling the ‘house’.
Never were all that ‘close’ but am really ‘ashamed’ of myself for never having the opportunity to REALLY apologize for the hell I must have put her through on that trip.
Flying blind here (no children), but it seems to me when parents include their children when traveling by car, they must really love them. To be in a vehicle for such a length of time - 8,4, or even 1 child....it might be a harrowing experience. Always fighting in the back seat, arguing for a position in the front riding ‘shotgun’. The stops that must be made: potty stops, I’m hungry stops, among many others. :-)
While typing just remembered a trip. In the days before the turn of the century, this one, cars were not normally equipped with air conditioning. We traveled with the windows down. That summer, scarf on my head a young girl begin such a trip. Every few hours and several miles, I had to ask dad to stop the car and turn around. The scarf had blown off my head and out the window. If we had to stop once, we had to stop a dozen times (in one direction!) Then there was the trip home.
Another memory is driving back from North Dakota to Texas in the winter months. Snow storm and awful driving conditions. He decided to pull off at a truck stop and wait out the storm. The area was at the top of a hill in Somewhere, Kansas. I’ll be darn, after being told he would never be able to make that hill, he went and did it. We hunkered in the building watching television and drinking hot chocolate until dawn and the storm passed; once again headed down the road for Texas.
Vacations are made for memories.
Great pix from a better bygone era.
“It was our culture. We failed to defend it properly against the radicalism that arose in the mid-to-late Sixties. And then we elected those “former” radicals to office, in large numbers.”
B I N G O ! ! !
As I’ve discussed with some of you offline - Einsatzgruppen would have stopped the decay.
The POS “Baby Boomers” (and no, not all of them are/were) are only a part of the problem.
The as*holes that were in charge that allowed them to flourish are even more culpable: They allowed our Garden of Eden to get trampled.
Wow, a 32 foot trailer behind! Incredible guts and determination your Mom had. And it sounds like you inherited some of that :- )
Your apology reminds me that we all have said things are mistreated the people we love. And so it’s best to say those things now and clear our hearts.
All the best.
:^) All it took to screw it up was LBJ.
Brilliance:
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/have-you-made-your-decision-to-defoo/
p.s. Ping to 50 & 51, FMDJ.
Don’t have anyone around me that parrots that leftist filth. They wouldn’t last long near me before I go full-Jesus flipping over tables. My tolerance level for that is sub-zero.
They’ve pretty much been entirely eliminated from my life too.
Better living without them.
Love it!
Dad was transferred from Newport News to San Diego 1960ish.
drove all the way. The most educational experience of my life. What a country!
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