When he goes down, he goes down in flames! Is the old punchline, and Batten seems to have stuck to his car, safely piloting it back to the pits so no one got hurt by an uncontrolled race car on fire

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it's been a long time since I've come across a cool roller coaster to share, but check this out, the first suspended roller coaster, 1902

Bisby's Spiral Airship built in 1902 had cars that were suspended underneath a track and could swing freely. The cars travelled up an in...

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a very cool looking Goodyear gas and tire station, looking south on Los Angeles Street (now Anaheim Blvd.) from Cypress Street after the 1938 flood

I don't think I've ever seen a close up of a Goodyear gas station,  http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8199q44r/?brand=oac4 visible s...

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Progress, that unstoppable force, causing the cool old semaphore stop lights to get torn down in 1956

the semaphore traffic signals are being replaced with conventional light only signals at the intersection of Main and Sunset at the plaza ht...

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1948 Los Angeles and the smog obscuring the distant background

cool photo showing traffic, taxis, trucking, and parked buses http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4795368&postcount=1030

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