Sunday Drive: Pismo Beach, California - 1936

This snapshot from the Currey family album was taken on the beach at Pismo. Mother and Junior are are posing in front of their 1935 Dodge truck. From the caption you know what they were going to have for dinner.

[From my personal collection]

This picture, taken a few days earlier at a different campsite, gives us a glimpse of the interior of the tent structure Dad had built on the back of the truck as well as a peek at their cooking arrangements.

[From my personal collection]

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Sunday Drive on Monday: Baja California, 1938

During the summer of 1938 the Curreys took their new trailer down south of the border. Here are six photos from their album.*

[From my personal collection]

Somehow I managed to forget what day it was when it came time for yesterday's post so this week my Monday topic was added on Sunday and I'm making up for it now.


Note: I have no idea who Bill is.


*I tried to scan all six pictures are the same time but my scanner screen wasn't large enough to do that.





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Sunday Drive: Anaheim, California - 1948

I've been sorting through the hundreds of color slides taken by the parents who raised me and there's still a lot to share. In honor of the Easter basket they gave me in 1951, I decided to post more photos of these two vehicles belonging to the Neals. You can see the 1948 Plymouth "Woodie" station wagon here and Jimmy's work truck, possibly a 1935 Dodge, here.

The Neals owned a motel in Anaheim and they were enlarging it in 1948 when Dad and Jimmy were working together on a project which you can read about here. 

[From my personal collection]

I love the billboard ad for Acme Beer and there's a wonderfully informative history of the brewery here.

[From my personal collection]

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Sunday Drive: Currey

I love this photo, "No Parking" sign and all. The father who raised me always had a Dodge truck and this one may have been his first.

[New Truck April 2, 1935, from the Currey photo album in my personal collection]

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