A car buff offers nostalgic memories of the way things were in the '50s. Cars with flames, drive-in movies, service stations, car clubs, and drag races all get their time in the spotlight in this collection of images from period photographs, catalogs, magazines, comics, and books.
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Albert Drake was born in Portland, Oregon when it was less populous and life had the quality of Norman Rockwell paintings. He was educated in public schools and followed his father‟s footsteps, working for years in service stations, garages and automotive warehouses. He eventually attended Portland State College, and got his degrees at the University of Oregon. He twice won the Ernest Haycox Prize for fiction. For nearly 30 years he labored in the groves of academe, where he was cited for his outstanding teaching and rose to the rank of Full Professor. He was the first academic to teach a class in science fiction as literature, and for several years he was Director of the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop. He has received numerous academic and creative grants, including two major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fiction, poetry and prose have been widely published in literary quarterlies and popular magazines, including Redbook, Epoch, North American Review and The Best American Short Stories. He is currently Professor Emeritus of English.
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All about the Cars we grew up around and the Rods we built,
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This review is from: Fifties Flashback: A Nostalgia Trip (Paperback)
NOTE; the cover has a hotrod and the first subtitle is "Cars We Drove". If you know the author, Al Drake, he writes for hotrod magazines. So if you are expecting anything but cars and in particular classic American highboy(fenderless body sits on the framerail) or lowboy(body lowered over the framerail) hotrods of the fifties, this book is not for you. BUT, if you are a gearhead and in particular a gearhead over 50 you will love this book. It's not technical. There aren't any data sheets about casting numbers, just a compilation of many of the short stories Al Drake wrote for various hotrod magazines. Much to Al's disapointment I'm sure, I spend most of my time looking at the pictures and the captions. For example there are pages of old newpaper ads listing used cars and the prices in the 50's. I couldn't afford them then at $500 and can't afford them now at $50,000. I particularly like the old photos of key rod and race pioneers. These aren't new color glossy pictures of new hotrods, these are the origional old grainy black and whites. Anyone can go to a car show and take modern pictures of hotrods, only Al and this book have the origional pictures of the origional rods that started the craze.
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what a riot!!,
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This review is from: Fifties Flashback : A Nostalgic Trip! (Paperback)
this book is great. I see so much of myself in the author, despite being 50 years younger. It's a real hoot to read about what the fifties were like, not what the fifites are idealized as. Tons of cool pictures, funny stories, hilarious drawings, etc. make this one of my favorite hot rod books. A must have!
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Cars, Cars, Cars and Nothing but Cars,
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This review is from: Fifties Flashback: A Nostalgia Trip (Paperback)
Beware this is not a book about the 50's, but a book about cars of the 50's, well actually more of the late 40's then the 50's. This book is marketed as a general book about the 50's but it is completely about cars. The section on fashion is one page, showing a man in a leather jacket. The section on magazines, is one page showing a car magazine. The section on TV is a page showing cars. If you want to know everything there is to know about cars in the late 40's to mid 50's then this is for you. But if you want to learn about anything else, look elsewhere. I ordered this book for my Mom and she was so disapponted that we are going to return it.
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It was a period of transition for myself and for the car industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hot Rod Magazine, Road Angels, Eastern Auto, Road Knights, Northwest Rods, Oakland Roadster Show, The Beast, United States, California Bill, World War, Plain Moon, Tom Story, Blackie Blackburn, Bud Crayne, Bud Parham, Chuck Blanchard, Clint Curtis, Don Moore, Floyd Clymer, Henry Gregor Felsen, Larry Eave, Lincoln Zephyr, Monte Rowland, Rolla Vollstedt, Speed Age New!
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It was a period of transition for myself and for the car industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hot Rod Magazine, Road Angels, Eastern Auto, Road Knights, Northwest Rods, Oakland Roadster Show, The Beast, United States, California Bill, World War, Plain Moon, Tom Story, Blackie Blackburn, Bud Crayne, Bud Parham, Chuck Blanchard, Clint Curtis, Don Moore, Floyd Clymer, Henry Gregor Felsen, Larry Eave, Lincoln Zephyr, Monte Rowland, Rolla Vollstedt, Speed Age New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Hot Rod by Henry Gregory Felsen in Front Matter, and page 142
- Crash Club by Henry Felsen on page 142
- Pat Boone by Paul Davis on page 204
- Flat Out: California Dry Lake Time Trials 1930-1950 by Albert Drake in Front Matter
- Full House by Nigel Gray on page 159
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