Vintage Gun Photos

[KahrMan]

The gun looks like a Thompson with a stick mag. 

[hipower]

5 hours ago, KahrMan said:

The gun looks like a Thompson with a stick mag. 

I think it's a Thompson as well. The actor...dang it. I remember him, but don't remember his name. Yes could look it up, but I'm too busy farting around tonight on TGO.  

OK, I failed to identify the actor with the Thompson. Just because it's gonna bug me now...can anyone else id him?

Edited October 17, 2020 by hipower

[Whisper]

It's Fernando Lamas, who often appeared as a Latin lover but was also in a large number of Western TV shows and movies.  He later moved into directing; mainly TV shows, I think.  And he's the father of Lorenzo Lamas.

 

[Jeb48]

[hipower]

On 10/17/2020 at 7:26 AM, Whisper said:

It's Fernando Lamas, who often appeared as a Latin lover but was also in a large number of Western TV shows and movies.  He later moved into directing; mainly TV shows, I think.  And he's the father of Lorenzo Lamas.

 

Would not have made that connection. I knew the face was familiar, just could not put a name there. Yes remember him from the old western movies. I guess it was that massive 'stashe that threw me off.

The strange thing is that I did search the same place(I'm sure) you did, and I managed to miss his name in the cast listings. Old age incomprehension setting in.

Thanks for the id. 

Edited October 18, 2020 by hipower

[Jeb48]

African American soldier in Union uniform with a rifle and revolver

[Jeb48]

[Suitcase]

Fernando Lamas with a Thompson, perhaps.

 

[Jeb48]

[Jeb48]

[Jeb48]

Not sure what the backstory is but this little kid seems to be doing a good job guarding thi fancy car.

 

[hipower]

5 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

Not sure what the backstory is but this little kid seems to be doing a good job guarding thi fancy car.

 

WOW! That is a fancy car! Now...what the heck is it?

[Jeb48]

A shine stop

[Jeb48]

Interesting treads

 

[peejman]

22 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

Interesting treads

 

For those days when you think your job sucks. 

[Jeb48]

Standard-grade Winchester Model 1895 lever-action, repeating magazine rifle

[Jeb48]

Two Afghan tribesmen with jezails Second Anglo-Afghan War, circa 1878

[Jeb48]

General Curtis E. LeMay

 

[Capbyrd]

On 10/22/2020 at 11:55 PM, hipower said:

WOW! That is a fancy car! Now...what the heck is it?

 

So my first thought was that this was going to be a coach built car.   After some research, I was wrong.  I was able to find this car in an article about the earliest car customizers.  This photo appears with a note.  

 

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Unique Custom Restyled Roadster with metal lift off hard-top and Woodlite headlights was photographed in San Fransisco in the early 1940’s but the unidentified car was beautifully restyled in the 1930’s.

 

And Woodlite headlights have an interesting history as well.  

 

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They’re Woodlites, and there is—at least in theory—a reason for their distinctive appearance. The creation of inventor William G. Wood, these headlamps were supposed to concentrate and project a beam of light farther down the road than a conventional headlight. You can read Wood’s description of the method of operation, and check out diagrams of the Woodlite’s interior geometry, in the U.S. patent granted July 31, 1928. Wood filed a series of patents for headlights, and the one that outlined the ornamental appearance of the Woodlite can be read here (note that this patent was filed after the one detailing the principle of operation, yet granted earlier). 

Whether the theory behind the design is sound, the source of illumination was ultimately a relatively weak 6-volt automotive headlight; there’s only so much fancy reflector setups can do to ameliorate anemic light sources. The general consensus is that Woodlites were no better, and possibly worse, than whatever was in common use at the time.

 

 

 

 

For more reading on Woodlites, click here.

 

For more on early car customizing, click here.

 

[hipower]

38 minutes ago, Capbyrd said:

 

So my first thought was that this was going to be a coach built car.   After some research, I was wrong.  I was able to find this car in an article about the earliest car customizers.  This photo appears with a note.  

 

 

And Woodlite headlights have an interesting history as well.  

 

 

 

 

 

For more reading on Woodlites, click here.

 

For more on early car customizing, click here.

 

Thanks, Cap. Very interesting reads. Cars really had some style back then.

[Jeb48]

[Jeb48]

American soldiers in Germany's Hurtgen Forest

[RED333]

48 minutes ago, Jeb48 said:

American soldiers in Germany's Hurtgen Forest

It makes my wonder, in the middle of all that was going on, some poor soul thought to turn and snap a pic.

[Chucktshoes]

4 hours ago, RED333 said:

It makes my wonder, in the middle of all that was going on, some poor soul thought to turn and snap a pic.

It was most likely his job. We had combat reporters embedded with units during WWII. Both Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite made names for themselves with their reporting during WWII. 

[RED333]

4 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:

It was most likely his job. We had combat reporters embedded with units during WWII. Both Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite made names for themselves with their reporting during WWII. 

with bullets whizzing by and still turned to snap a pic, makes me wonder, what a job. We are all made a bit different, I do not think I could think enough to snap a pic, much less frame and focus.