White Walls and Gray Scale Photos

[Tom Veale]

Sometimes it's good to look back and see where the 'art form' of street rods started. I pumped Sunoco 260 into a lot of very cool cars in the '60s when in high school. I wish I had photos of them all. Here's one that I spotted on the net that could have been taken anywhere in the '60s.



For fun, I took one of my '33 photos and converted it to gray scale to see how it looked. It's one I took in front of an old downtown building in the village of Elkhart Lake, WI last year.



Other than the girl's shoes on the right, this one would be hard to place in time.

A few years ago I tried to start a thread for Cruise Nights and Drive-Ins both new and historical. It never got much traction. Here's a less than perfect photo that seems to capture the essence of Drive-Ins of another era.


This is Wayne's Drive-In in Cedarburg, WI. Great burgers, onion rings, malts and shakes. Wayne's has been around a very long time and is complete with Neon lights at the roof lines and on those strange Space Antenna thingies on the top of the building.

Switching some of these photos to Gray Scale brings the Simon and Garfunkel "KodaChrome" song to mind.

Best regards, Tom