45 years parked in a garage, and finally the 1939 Studebaker gets towed out into the light for the first time since LBJ was president

read about it at http://bernalwood.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/studebaker-time-capsule-emerges-from-bernal-garage/ somehwere in San Francisco

via http://blog.hemmings.com/ where Dan posts great stuff all the time!

The celebrated Studebaker patent (and that's all that can be read on the back of this old wagon tanker)

this isn't the only old tanker I've found, oddly enough http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/01/early-fire-dept-water-wagon.html is even older, with a wood tank

The Mendanhall's Museum of Petroliana

I think, but didn't verify, that this license plate collection has one California plate from each year

There is a story about the above outdoor phone booth... it was knocked off it's foundation after a birth of a baby celebration got a bit inebriated behind the wheel.... anyway, the next day the phone company man was smooth talked and he told them about the below indoor wooden phone booth that was taking up space in the phone company basement... and they got it to add to the collection!
































I didn't get the info on what kind of bike the above is

Above appears to be a 1938 Ford







Awesome BBQ cooker


The above is the tow truck in the bottom photo of this post

the Mendenhall Museum http://www.mendenhallmuseum.com