Remembering When.............

[MrObsessive]

This was posted on another board..............I was pretty fascinated by it as it sure brought back some very early childhood memories!. Most of what I saw in the video are the very cars I saw as a kid when I first new what a car was. I didn't know the names or years then----------but the styling of what's shown was very familiar. It takes you through Route 30 in Iowa and it's a pretty neat shapshot of what was on the road in the late '50's early '60's.

The clip is dated 1959--------but I see a lot of 1960 models in the video as well. Looking at the scenery and trees..........and also a part where a lot of kids are going to (or from) school. It looks more like it was done around springtime of '60.

[paul alflen]

MR OBSESSIVE, WHEN YOU GET TO ABOUT 2 MINUTES AND 24 SECONDS INTO IT AT THE PART WHERE THE NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT IT BEING DIFFICULT TO PASS, WATCH CLOSELY AND YOU WILL SEE A BLACK 1953? PACKARD LIMO OR FUNERAL COACH COMING IN THE OPPOSITE LANE,TO THE LEFT OF THE THE BLUE CHRYSLER CAR BEHIND THE TRUCK. A TRUE TIMECAPSULE FROM THE GREAT 1960"S. ED SHAVER WILL LOVE THE OLD GAS STATIONS IN THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!

Edited March 31, 2011 by paul alflen

[MrObsessive]

I saw that!

What also got my attention was the light green '58 Plymouth which was always up ahead. My Dad had a car that was almost EXACTLY like that except his was a '57. There's a part in the clip where they show the interior of the Plymouth---------that brought back some memories!

............I was thinking of Ed also when I saw all those neat gas stations and the cars along with 'em.

Edited March 31, 2011 by MrObsessive

[Dragline]

What positively thrills me is seeing only American automobiles on the road. That was a great time indeed.

Bob

[Jim Gibbons]

Very cool; it did bring back memories. Neat to see the truckloads of new '60 Ramblers, and later, '60 Cadillacs in the film.

[Foxer]

I liked the carrier full of Ramblers, Though, it seems Iowans did get some Caddys.

[Eshaver]

Whats interesting is the fact that I see many intercections , former service stations , now convience stores and the "Cottage style " houses all over the Southeastern U. S. Yes, I drove a couple of the old Internationals as seen in the movie clip when I first started driving professionaly years ago. Thanks for the warp back into a simplier time ........ Ed Shaver

[Harold]

Gasoline at 28 cents a gallon? Who'da thunk?....

[Greg Pugh]

So awesome......and sad at the same time.

[Bernard Kron]

What a wonderful document on so many levels. It is, after all, a film produced to explain the often difficult and controversial decisions made by the highway commissions of the time, often resulting in bypasses of whole towns, or relocation of commercial districts to less built up areas where construction of modern 4-lane highways and their frontage roads was easier. It's all in there in this film. Amazing!

A few years back I read a book about the history of roads in the USA that was copyright 1954, a few years earlier than this film. This type of road building was brand new at the time. The "old" roads they are criticizing are barely more than 30 years old in most cases and were often the first paved roads put in, mainly during the boom times of the late 20's and during the Depression as part of the New Deal. It was all in the process of being rebuilt all over again as the Interstate Highway system we use today was being built and small town America was living its last days as the center of American culture.

The cars and gas stations are way cool, too!

Thanx for sharing this.

[Modelmartin]

What positively thrills me is seeing only American automobiles on the road. That was a great time indeed.

Bob

I did see an Opel hardtop and a VW panel truck! I love older foreign cars!I loved all of the 58 and 59 Chevs, too. All in all a very cool piece of nostalgia. Thanks for posting, Bill!