Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[skyway]

Love the zig-zag twin Oldsmobiles.

[Studedude]

[BRUCESTUDE]

About 1976 I worked at a rental shop in West Seattle which had those clamp on bumper hitches for rent. I got pretty good at sizing up a bumper and attaching the hitch!

[skyway]

That’s a great photo!
But was this combo’s speed limited by one of those 45mph decals on the trailer fender, or my that Champion engine?

[Noxnabaker]

Oh that sure brings back memories, from when I was 9 to 11 we had a red Lark Wagon...

[Studedude]

Stude related Americana in Manila Philippines

[Studedude]

[Studedude]

Photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society website. Photo from 1952.
Three newspaper carriers riding in Studebaker duplicate of the official pace car for the Indianapolis 500 mile race in front of the buses that took one hundred eighteen newspaper carriers to see the race.

[rockne10]

This first one was taken at Dorothy and William McMullen's restaurant just east of Millheim, Pa on state route 45.

No idea where this one was.

[Dwain G.]

RTC San Diego, early/mid '50s

[Bob Andrews]

[skyway]

TDE-1, the USS Recruit; a landlocked “dummy” training ship. Fascinating!

[rockne10]

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[Commander Eddie]

RTC San Diego, early/mid '50s

Wow. I got a shock when I saw the photo of this training "ship" at the boot camp in San Diego. I was there in the summer of '70 and trained on that thing. I was two years out of school and calculated that my luck avoiding the draft during the Vietnam conflict (war) was about to run out. I joined the Navy in the family tradition but found out soon after that my number would never have come up in the draft lottery.
So, had there not been a Studebaker parked on the field the day this photo was shot I would have not had this memory pop into my head. Thanks, Dwain.

[rockne10]

I was there in the summer of '70 and trained on that thing.

How much could you learn on that, other than manning stations, coming to formation and obeying commands?

[Commander Eddie]

How much could you learn on that, other than manning stations, coming to formation and obeying commands?

Basically we learned the correct nomenclature for "port", "starboard", "fore", "aft (stern)", the correct one directional path to take to get to your battle station, how to read and identify the bulkhead and hatch markings so you knew where you were on the ship, etc. I think we also learned many of the correct names for various other parts of the ships such as gunnels, capstan, etc. We also learned that a rope for tying the ship to the pier is not a rope, it's a line.