From Out of the Past

Old cars and retro style. Postwar and pre-Malaise.

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Did you know the B-58 was powered by the General Electric J79, the same engine that powered the F-4? But while the Phantom made do with two, the Hustler packed four of them! Here they are lined up at Carswell AFB in 1962: the heyday of the speed as protection philosophy.

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The first prototype of the massive Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess taking off from the Solent on its maiden flight on August 22, 1952

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Memorial Day - Galesburg, Illinois - 1948

Photograph by Esther Bubley

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1952 Kellogg's Frosted Flakes advertisement detail from: Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising with Character, 2009.

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Vegetables With Glamour From the 1958 "wonderful ways with soups...from Campbell's" Cookbook

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An F-80C at Las Vegas Army Airfield, 26 March 1950

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TO-1s of VF-52 in flight near San Diego, California, 1948

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Mail carriers, May 1957.

Photo: Thomas J. O'Halloran for U.S. News & World Report via the LoC

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Grand Opening…

   J.C. Penney, Melbourne Florida, 1963

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Giki Tiki Archives

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35th Fighter Squadron F-80As at Itazuke Air Base, 1950

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Gilmore Serve Yourself gas station. Los Angeles, 1948.

By Allan Grant

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Opel Rekord Coupé (1962)