'Fifties
Flashback
Albert Drake
A nostalgia trip!
Nostalgic memories of the way things were in the '50s. Cars we drove, clothes
we wore, the movies, the drive-ins, service stations, car shows, car clubs,
what we read, customs, drag races, street racing, rappin' pipes and more. Hub
caps, squirrel knob, blue dots and flamers all get their time in the spotlight.
The author has dug into his collection of period photographs, catalogs, magazines,
comics and books to illustrate this series of period snapshots.
264 pages, 8½" x 11"
ISBN: 1-931128-14-6
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Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Chapter 1: | Back Row Specials | 5 |
Chapter 2: |
The Ride |
9 |
| Chapter 3: | A Hot Rodder's Wish Book | 13 |
| Chapter 4: | Hub Caps | 21 |
| Chapter 5: | Rappin' Pipes | 27 |
| Chapter 6: | Vintage Tin | 33 |
| Chapter 7: | Hot Rodding B.C. | 37 |
| Chapter 8: | Why There Were Hot Rods at Mid-Century | 41 |
| Chapter 9: | The Lost Pix | 43 |
| Chapter 10: | Clubs | 47 |
| Chapter 11: | Street Was Fun in '51 | 51 |
| Chapter 12: | The National Hot Rod Association | 55 |
| Chapter 13: | Not-So-Hot Rods | 57 |
| Chapter 14: | Top Rods | 61 |
| Chapter 15: | Hot Rod Mart | 69 |
| Chapter 16: | Gettin' Down | 73 |
| Chapter 17: | Track Roadsters | 77 |
| Chapter 18: | Traditional vs. Non-Traditional | 87 |
| Chapter 19: | '29 A-Willys Roadster | 91 |
| Chapter 20: | Study Hall Mechanix | 95 |
| Chapter 21: | Street Racing | 101 |
| Chapter 22: | The Day They Broke 100 at Scappoose | 105 |
| Chapter 23: | 1953: The Year of the Dragster | 109 |
| Chapter 24: | Rain | 115 |
| Chapter 25: | What We Read: Magazines | 119 |
| Chapter 26: | Regional Rodding Magazines | 127 |
| Chapter 27: | What We Read: The Clymer Books | 131 |
| Chapter 28: | What We Read: Books | 135 |
| Chapter 29: | What We Read: Henry Gregor Felsen | 141 |
| Chapter 30: | What We Read: Hot Rod Comics | 147 |
| Chapter 31: | Hot Rod King | 151 |
| Chapter 32: | The Good Old Bad Days | 155 |
| Chapter 33: | We Never Called Them Kemps | 159 |
| Chapter 34: | Textures of the 'Fifties | 161 |
| Chapter 35: | The Gook Wagon | 165 |
| Chapter 36: | The 1953 Oakland Roadster Show | 169 |
| Chapter 37: | The Cherry | 179 |
| Chapter 38: | The Beast | 185 |
| Chapter 39: | The Mild Custom | 189 |
| Chapter 40: | The Mild Custom II | 193 |
| Chapter 41: | Cool Threads | 197 |
| Chapter 42: | Rockin' & Roddin' | 201 |
| Chapter 43: | The Drive-In | 205 |
| Chapter 44: | Bonneville 1955 | 209 |
| Chapter 45: | Biker! | 219 |
| Chapter 46: | I Remember the Day James Dean Died Like it was Yesterday | 223 |
| Chapter 47: | Drive-in Theaters | 227 |
| Chapter 48: | The 'Fifties Lineup | 231 |
| Chapter 49: | Girls & Rods | 235 |
| Chapter 50: | Things I Don't Remember | 239 |
| Chapter 51: | Update on Blue Dots, Dice & Flamers | 241 |
| Chapter 52: | The Service Station | 243 |
| Chapter 53: | Memento Mori | 247 |
| Index | 251 |