Mill Valley, CA,1920s - Combination automobile and rail engine KisselKar of the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway on a turn table

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/432/

a bus turntable in Spain

 

a turntable to make a drive thru from a small narrow lot, Fidelity Drive In Cleaners, Algon Ave & Cottman Ave, Philadelphia

ever see a turntable in a drive through, because the restaurant didn't come with a wrap around driveway? Dawn's Donuts, 6th Street & Germantown Ave. 1957, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Quite clever

 It was the first store of it's kind that had a turntable for it's customers cars, in the drive thru.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-122#post-13191478

https://www.facebook.com/oldimagesofphiladelphia/posts/dawns-donuts-6th-street-germantown-ave-june-12-1957-it-was-the-first-store-of-it/1114117971984473/

What the hell? The forest service was using a turntable near Warm Springs Canyon on Kaibab National Forest in 1937 to get cars turned around at the end of the narrow road? How narrow was the slot canyon this happened in?

https://www.williamsnews.com/news/2016/nov/18/out-past-forest-service-ingenuity-1930s/

How many garages have you ever seen with a turn table?

I think this is the 1st I've ever seen a photo of. I did post a turn table in a Hollywood drive way once, as the celeb had a big 1920s car, but a tiny Hollywood driveway from the street to their garage. 

http://mildlyinteresting-blog.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-garage-has-old-wooden-turntable.html

actress Anne Harding really loved her 1929 Cord L29, her house in Hollywood at 7430 yramid Place had such a small driveway though, she had a turn table installed

Rudy Vallee bought the house from her in 1939

if you can't make out the turntable, here is a similar one

http://www.coyoteblog.com/

Years later, the home was owned by Rudy Vallee and, lastly, Arsenio Hall, who had it demolished; it is now vacant land.

freight car on Oahu, on the Hilo station turntable, at the Wailuku river, made from Mack truck components used for delivering mail and light freight

The Hawaii Consolidated Railway, photo by Victor Norton

Private island owners used to be the right people to accomplish anything, like, own baseball teams, airlines, and such

the Wrigley's bought Catalina island in 1919 improved it with public utilities, new steamships, a hotel, the Casino building, and extensive planting of trees, shrubs, and flowers, built a baseball field for the spring training of their Chicago Cubs, and helped design a unique airport at Hamilton Cove, the second cove north of Avalon.

 This airport was designed to accommodate the Douglas Dolphin amphibian planes of the Wilmington-Catalina Air Line, Ltd., a Wrigley-operated firm. The twin engine Dolphins landed just offshore and would taxi up a ramp to a large turntable mechanism. The airplane would then be rotated until it was facing the water and ready for a trip back to the mainland.

A small Spanish-style terminal building welcomed residents, business people and tourists to Catalina. Catalina Airport was soon described as “the smallest airport with the longest landing field (the Pacific) in the world.”

the Cubs baseball team disembarking

http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Catalina.html