In 1951 the Muller Bros., an Oldsmobile-Firestone Tire-Car Wash-Cafe-Body Shop-Home Appliance-Auto Supply Dealer located at Sunset and Ivar in L.A., California named their complex "The Landing." With good reason, they had everything you could want on one lot. It was giant compared to most new and used car dealers of the time, even had a control tower. They came up with the idea to hold a beauty contest to celebrate the 3,000,000th car to be pulled through its car wash. Life Magazine was there to photo-document the PR event
The photo is from 1951, that's why the car on the rack is a 1950 Olds, it would be contemporary. Pelosi was born in 1940. So, obviously an 11 year old wouldn't be standing in this photo as tall as these men.
In 1951 Nancy Pelosi was 11 years old and was living thousands of miles away from Los Angeles in Baltimore, Maryland (her father was mayor of that city from 1947 to 1959)
But that's what spinning around the internet right now. http://hotrodcraft.com/index.php?topic=49.msg60575
http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/nancy-pelosi-miss-lube-rack-1955.291657/page-6
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/luberack.asp
And I suppose you're going to tell me that's not Dan Rather standing next to her either. Right?
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DeleteI'm a geezer (70) .......I loved those days better. Cars were unsafe. I get that part. But it was easier than. Simple. Not as many blow-hards as there are today showing pictures of their great big houses. I'd rather be 70 and be back there in those times.
ReplyDeletepeople weren't as offensive, inflation hadn't priced high school grads out of a simply happy life, politicians hadn't gotten us into Nam, anyone could work on any car or truck without needing to plug into an OBD port, you could still go see a dr and afford to pay cash, and the govt hadn't yet started to spy on, and record the phones, of everyone... the FBI was only spying on MLK and trying to kill Castro. Music was pretty damn good, hip hop bullshit hadn't even been thought of, kids didn't droop their pants under their asses, and lawyers hadn't fucked us out of living like maniacs with thermoline rockets on go carts! Hydroplanes were on every small town river, using airplane piston engines, traveling around with a camper trailer to national parks was affordable, gas was a quarter a gallon, and John Wayen made movies guys liked to watch
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