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Highland Hammock State Park Jeep Trains, Sebring, FL

February 10, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: There’s another Hammock State Park postcard on eBay. The original post is from 2013.

“This is a very cool black/white postcard that shows a jeep “Conducted Tour – Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring Florida” It is unused, but has a hand written date of 1955 on the back. It is in excellent condition.”

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Original Post from 2013:
Highlands Hammock State Park ran tour trains from at least 1948 – 1962.  As the first photo shows, they started with a CJ-2A.  It looks like a set of benches on a platform with wheels.  By 1962, the park shifted to CJ-5s.  It also appears they added sides.  I images that was safer.  These are all from the State Archives of Florida.

http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/56346

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http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/56343

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http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/78488

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1943 Color Photo of Coast Guard Fire Fighting Group

February 8, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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How about his neat 1943 photo from the National Air and Space Museum!

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The photo’s caption: “View of four U. S. Coast Guard firefighters dressed in white asbestos suits with helmets and face plates, two riding in a jeep, the other two on the high pressure water pump and hose it is towing, jeep also carries carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, Hall PH-3 in right background, water in left background, 1943.”

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1956 Photo of Jeeps Outside the Reichstag

February 1, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This photo from eBay Germany shows a couple MP MBs/GPWs with some nice tops sitting outside the Berlin Reichstag.

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“Arthur Grimm
Original Foto um 1956 zu einem mir unbekannten Film
Berliner Reichstag
Fotograf: Arthur Grimm
Shot: um 1956 – Abzug: um 1956
Silbergelatine auf Baryt-Papier
Blattmaß: 23,8 cm x 17,2 cm”

 

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1945 Article on How to Handle War Surplus

January 30, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, GPA (SEEP), Old Images, Old News Articles • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This July 15, 1945, article in the Evening Star featured a great shot of Ford GPAs. I thought the article was interesting, too. It highlights the challenges of managing war surplus (links to page 1 and page 2 of original article).

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1944 Article “…By Jeep To Alaska Article” (Early One)

January 28, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Herbert Lanks wrote an article titled “… By Jeep To Alaska” that was published in the February 13, 1944, issue of the Evening Star (published on page 4 and page 5). He’d later write a second, and different, article titled with the same name published in the September issue of Popular Photography.

The article below appears between sets of photos.  The first photo below shows the humble beginnings of the Watson Lake Sign Forest.

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Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

January 25, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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There are a bunch of jeep-snow pics on eBay, so thought I’d share an array of them given that a number of you got hit with snow in the last few days.

  1. Color Photo of CJ-2A in Snow (looks like a lefty, but the photo is reversed):
    snow-color-photo-cj2a-lefty-halfcab
  2. Modified Jeep in the Snow (photo from Bulgaria):
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  3. Photo from Washington State with a CJ-2A (The woman in the driver’s window looks ghostly):
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  4. MB/GPW Dragging Sled(?) in the Snow: 
    snow-cj2a-mb
  5. 1962 CJ-5 Photo:
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  6. 1954 Champion Spark Plug Ad with CJ-2A:
    1954-champion-spark-plug-ad-cj2a-snow
  7. Classis (and reproduction photo) from WWII:
    wwii-snow-jeep-photo
  8. 1962 Meyer Postcard (Meyer top and plow):
    snow-meyer-cj5-postcard
  9. 1950/51 Delivery Sedan with 4WD:
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  10. Looks like there was a lot of snow, given how much is still on the wagon’s fenders:
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  11. Jeep Wagoneer Ad with Snow (Wife will be safer): 
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1944 Article Shares Modified Jeeps From Oklahoma

January 24, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles, Sedan-jeep This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The August 20, 1944, issue of the Evening Star shared these jeeps used for War Bond Sales. They were modified by the Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, motor pool. The image with “Jeeps in Civvies” label has been featured on eWillys previously, but I’ve never seen the other two jeeps.

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