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I'm not sure if you have to be on facebook to view these but there's a lot of hand lettering going on in this album. Click through the pics. Most of these were hand lettered. I got my start in the sign business lettering race cars at the Danbury Fairgrounds Racearena. You can see "Economy Signs" on the rear of this car from around 1979. Enjoy! BTW the fairgrounds were tore down to build a mall. What a shame
One good link deserves another. This one is 480 pages long as of my posting. It gets added to each day. Be prepared to spend a little time on this one. It took me about a month to get to the last page, which keeps moving. There are cars from all over the N.E. and a good number of Danbury pictures.
Now if you really want to get lost and are interested in anything old, THIS IS THE SITE!!! Old cars, old street scenes, lots and lots of old signs and lettering, good looking gals from the forties and fifties...old planes, trains, you name it. It's long....like over 1,000 pages but it is so cool.
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George Perkins... that just cruel, brother...
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Joey, I don't know if you remember Dino Lawrence. He was the track announcer at Dover. He is an excellent painter and the owner of Carolina Signworks. Check him out at : http://carolinasignworks.com/
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Louie, I never really paid attention to the announcer as to who he was as much as to the times of other racers. At that time I raced practically every track within a few hours from NYC and Connecticut Dragway was one which a friend invited both my brother and I too
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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They tear down everything for another shopping mall. Around SF they usually put up a statue to remind people what a great place it was back when. They closed Bay Meadows, the home of Seabiscuit, about a year ago.
I'm told that the younger people dont care as much about different kinds of racing. But compare the enjoyment of a day at the track with a day at the shopping mall.
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-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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George, I discovered that site a while back.The "vintage pics of days gone by" thread has lots of old sign pics and all the hot rod/ racing stuff consumes a lot of my time these days!
-------------------- Jerry Hudson J.R.Design 4260 Green Ave. Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Posts: 103 | From: Los Alamitos, CA,USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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Lots of good shots of the old jalopies. Lots of great street rod material bit the dust in those days. Ahhh, for hindsight......
That was the first time I'd ever seen a roundy-rounder with a blower. As much as those cars are on and off the gas, I can't imagine it'd be very good for engine health.
In those days, racing was relatively cheap, regardless of whether it was round track or drag strip. But you also didn't have the prize moneys of today, or the huge sponsorships.
It was all much simpler then....
It's interesting....there were two racetracks (one roundy and one drag strip) in the Cincinnati area that were closed years ago, for supposed development reasons. Both sites are, today, covered with weeds and trees, but no development. Same with one near Brooksville, Florida, where we lived....the site where Don Garlits made hia first 180 mph run.....hmmmmmm.
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It's been a couple of years since anyone's asked me to do an all hand painted race car. It was a 1932 Coupe that had been restored that was going to appear at the 50th anniversary of the closing of a dirt track in Vermont. Wish I'd taken the time to make it there and get pictures. There were over 60 cars there...all hand lettered.
I managed to find a way to get SOME kind of hand painting done on racers right up until last year, but I'm giving them all together this year. These days, drivers come in with a stack of poorly designed business cards and ask me to reproduce them exactly (because they wil suck up to anyone for a sponsorship), owners get particular about the fonts for the numbers and I'm sick to death of the phone ringing on Friday morning with racers needing lettering cut ASAP when they've had all week to contact me.
Some of my best customers have ask me to "dumb down" my work and after 20 years and a pantload of show winners, I have nothing left to prove with them.
Moving on... Rapid
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When I was just a lad (a long time ago) My dad would paint those jalopies. He hated that his artwork was going to be totally demolished in just a few hours, but he enjoyed doing them all again for the next race! He as doing them for the old Bayfair Oakland Speedway in the east bay near San Fran. And yes it was torn down to make way for the Bayfair Mall. This was also the era of the bootlegged local tv stations that were popping up and the races were televised live on channel 2. This eventually prompted the Raiders to consider Oakland as a site for their team, live SPORTS tv! Russ
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There are cars from all over the N.E. and a good number of Danbury pictures.
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