Historic photos of car crashes and other stuff

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Lauderback, Milwaukie Oregon on Monday, July 01, 2013 - 11:26 am:

A friend sent me an email with photos of some 1930's car crashes. The pictures were taken in and around Boston, Massachusetts by Leslie Jones, who was staff photographer at the Boston-Herald Traveler newspaper from 1917 to 1956.
Mr. Jones captured everything that happened in the city for five decades. When he died in 1967, his family donated a vast collection of 34,000 prints to the Boston Public Library.
They included these fascinating photos of vintage car wrecks from the great motoring boom.
There are too many photos to share all of them here, but there is a website at
http://www.lesliejonesphotography.com/collection
which has about 7,000 of his photos.
Here are a couple which show Model T's:









Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Charles Linsenbarth on Monday, July 01, 2013 - 12:17 pm:

Love photo's of old car wrecks.
Plus that's what I fix every day!
Charley


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Gregush Portland Oregon on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 01:06 am:

I did not go through all the photos but if you go to the very end there are photos of the USS Constitution being restored.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 01:15 am:

Love that large format photography!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Wells on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 01:29 pm:

Pretty flimsy pole in the third pic. Not much damage to the car. Maybe a few cars have hit that pole.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Gregush Portland Oregon on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 09:00 pm:

Could be that in the days before any type of wood preserver was used only took a nudge to bring it down as it was completely rotted on the inside.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Aaron Griffey, Hayward Ca. on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 11:19 pm:

Ya but that tree in the second picture was ready for the next round.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison_Rice Minnesota on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 11:35 pm:

Most of that damage looks worse than it is. A little Mothers polish and a flitz and that should buff right out.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen - Nebraska on Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - 12:07 am:

I've come across some bad wrecks of Ford Six (Model K) cars. The horsepower, bad roads and drinking often contributed. The worst:

Notice a story of the Lusitania is beside this one.


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