It Was a Thursday Afternoon....

When I picked up our grandson from school.  I happened to remember that on Thursdays there is a gathering of vintage cars in a parking lot of a shopping complex near our home so we drove over to have a look....Joining in with Tom's new meme, Tuesday Treasures, and later Mersad's Friday My Town Shootout.  Thank you both!

For Rubbish Tuesday...Planes, Trains and Automobiles from the 50s!  Check out Roan's great meme showing all things old, vintage, forgotten and falling apart!  It's for treasures and cast-offs, but reflect the past we all love...

Planes:

I believe this is a  Boeing C-97 Strato freighter, used by the Navy and Air Force for cargo and passenger movement in wartime and peacetime, and this particular one was used to move my family from Midway Island to Hawaii as we left the island at the end of my Dad's tour of duty.  We boarded through the back cargo bay but cargo went in the below compartment, and passengers in the above compartment.  After we got to Hawaii it was then passage on a ship across the rest of the Pacific Ocean back to the States.  I vaguely remember this plane ride.  I was 6.  They gave my baby brother a little plastic airplane pin to attach to his shirt.  And we got to talk to the captain in the cockpit.  I remember the ship passage better, with the leis thrown into the water as we left (so we would someday return...proved true at least for my brother and his wife when they married several years ago) And I remember the man coming to the hallways playing a xylophone of three notes to announce time to eat.  Mom was very sick on that ship and I remember bringing her crackers.  I also had my first "date"...a little boy asked me to go see Peter Pan with him in the ship's theatre. 

For trains, I present a picture mostly of a group of people (you really can barely see the train, unfortunately).  This is my family as my great-grandmother went on her first train ride in 1955 at age 84. It was my first train ride as well, at age 3....that's me standing in front (the one with darker hair) with my 3-yr old cousin.  I'm pretty sure it was a steam train, and I have since longed to ride another one.  I really need to do that! :-)

Now for the cars....boy those cars were so awesome in the fifties!  Who can't be in love with them even now!

Me at 2 months old in 1952 on a shiny brand new Plymouth.

My hubby Russell with his Dad standing next to their 1947 Buick Super or maybe Roadmaster.