Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since 2007. Explore now.
Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience.
Learn more.
- Let's meet in my office.
- Wonder women
- Happy
- Before getting his first car
- Mean Streets? San Rafael ?!?
- A hidden truth
- Charming children
- Sweet kids
- Trying, but failing
- 1947 or 1948
- Evidence missing from this "Big Shot" case.
- Down those mean streets ...
- Which X?
- I Feel A Song Coming On
- Canadian Club is the King in Canada
- I'm disappointed
- Que j'en ne sais quoi
- Perfect Circle
- Narration by Joe Friday
- A mysterious caper alright
- RE: "Thing" on head
- Department store men's section scene
- Brand identity
- Headwear
- World's best chimney sweep?
- That jacket
- Fashion forward
- My first Ford
- Left-Wing Issues
- Maybe it's just the photograph
Photos submitted by Shorpy members!
Print Emporium
Shorpy members who are Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience! (Mostly -- there's still an ad above the comments.) Sign up or learn more.
The Brick Buick: 1949
My sister and brother in a 1949 photo, on Second Avenue in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Not many years later, at 16, I demolished this Buick (and please take notes if you'd like to demolish a Buick) skidding on wet streetcar tracks -- too much speed might have been involved -- and nailing a brick porch next door to Sacred Heart Convent on Sixth Avenue. A woman appeared (the Madonna?), shouting "You've wrecked!" and because a few more bricks were thudding onto the hood, I said, "I believe I'm still wrecking." View full size.
Small World
Indeed! Altoona was my mom's hometown when her family came to the United States (my granddad had a job with the Pennsy Railroad) before she moved to Buffalo to study nursing. Both my aunts and their husbands were buried out of Sacred Heart and one of them (and my grandparents) lived in a house on 2nd Avenue.
I was going to say that in addition to speed and trolley tracks, the hills in that burg might have contributed to your wreck as well (Altoona had some GREAT sledding hills in the winter) but a quick look at the Google street view disabused me of that notion.
Shorpy.com is a vintage photography site featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. Contact us | Privacy policy | Site © 2020 Shorpy Inc.
On Shorpy:
Today’s Top 5