Scottish Cameron Highlander and Indian troops march past pyramids in Egypt in 1940, part of the Allied defense preparations against an Italian attack, during World War II.
Route 66 and the famous people that grew up along it. Here is a photo of one of baseball's greatest stars, Mickey Mantle. He grew up in the Rt. 66 town of Commerce, Oklahoma. In the photo, he is receiving keys to a new Oldsmobile from a dealer in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
"10/20/1931 - Mickey Charles Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. A few years later, his family moved to Commerce, Oklahoma. Working for Eagle-Picher during the summer months, Mickey became amazingly strong. By age 16, he was playing with the semi-pro Whiz Kids team from Baxter Springs, KS. In the photo, Mantle is receiving the keys to his new Oldsmobile Holiday at Pruitt Motors in Baxter Springs. The building still stands behind the restored Phillips 66 Station." The photo and quoted paragraph above are courtesy of Joe Sonderman
It’s hard to imagine that any part of downtown looked like this, let alone 20 years into the 20th century. (The cars we can see are circa late 1920s.) The road we can see in this photo is Spring Street which runs alongside what then would have been the newly opened Los Angeles City Hall (which opened in 1928) that we can see in the background. It’s amazing that Spring St was still a meandering dirt road. I’m guessing this stretch was around about where the 101 Freeway now cuts across the top of downtown L.A. The “Auto Park 15 cents” sign refers to Sunset Blvd ends just north of the 101