Description: Kaelbe Heavy Equipment was founded in 1924 by Carl Kaelbe in Backnang, Germany. The company initially focused on the manufacturing of construction equipment, but a one-off mine truck built for a customer changed its trajectory. Renaming themselves Kaelbe Heavy Trucks, the firm focused on tractors and dump trucks for heavy haulage, construction, and mining, eventually becoming a major supplier for Germany's state railway system.
Description: USS Grady (DE-445) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service from 1944 to 1957. The Grady's keel was laid on January 3, 1944, by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. in Newark, New Jersey. She was launched on April 2, 1944, and commissioned on September 11, 1944. By the end of the year, she was steaming towards the Pacific Theater where she acted as escort to a vital tanker group engaged in refueling units of the 3rd Fleet at sea, and engaged in air strikes against Formosa and the China. The Grady was well armed with two Mark 12 5" guns, four (2 × 2) Bofors 40 mm guns, ten Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, three 21" torpedo tubes, one Hedgehog Anti-Submarine Projector, eight depth charge projectors, and two depth charge tracks.
Description: Go-karts and mini-bikes were all the rage in the late ’50s, so when things slowed down for Bakersfield, California machine shop, Precision Engineering, they decided to get in on the action. While other outfits seemed bent on complicating things, Precision followed the keep-it-simple rule with both their go-karts and their mini-bikes. While they made several models, the Apache Kart was their most successful go-kart as it came in several variants ranging from basic for hobbyists looking for some weekend fun to aspiring racers after some heated competition at the track.
Description: Windsurfing is a wind-driven water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing that is also often referred to as sailboarding and boardsailing. Windsurfing emerged in the late '60s from the California surf culture, gaining a following during the late '70s, and had achieved significant global popularity in the '80s. As such, windsurfing became a popular style that was frequently featured in '80s clothing in designs like this one.
Description: Dave Zeuschel did his apprenticeship at C-T Automotive and developed strong relationships with a number of big names in motorsports. One of Zeuschel's engines that he built at C-T produced a record-setting 187 mph at Long Beach in Frank Cannon's car that later ran 190, and then 200 mph. Dave opened his own shop in Hollywood where he quickly became known as a gifted engine builder, but he didn't just limit himself to V8s for the drag strip. Sure, Dave built engines for street and strip use, but also built high-performance engines for aircraft and boat applications. Dave Zeuschel stayed busy throughout his life, which sadly came to an end on April 25, 1987, while piloting his Korean War-era F-86 Sabre Jet at an airshow in Northern California.
Description: Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines was an American cartoon series that was originally broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969, to January 3, 1970. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show's theme song "Stop The Pigeon"). The title is a reference to the film and song Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
Description: Founded in 1897, Liverpool Screw Towing & Lighterage Co. operated a fleet of cock tugs - no laughing, please - which are smaller tugboats used in ports where larger tugs would be tough to maneuver like the port of Liverpool. These were called cocks, or cockboats, and the people in charge of them were called coxswains, which is now a term used in rowing. Screw towing is moving ships with tugs and lighterage is when you transfer cargo from a larger ship to a smaller one. Liverpool's entire fleet included 'cock' in each ship's name like 'Crested Cock,' 'Black... ok, now feel free to laugh ;)
Description: The world's first production amphibious all-terrain vehicle (AATV) is generally considered to be the Jiger, developed by John Gower of Toronto and first marketed in 1960. While Jiger went bankrupt in 1968, Hugh Thompson of Orillia, Ontairio, had been working on his own design for an AATV. Orillia's OTACO Corp. was impressed with Hugh's design and bought the rights to produce it, calling it the 'Bazooo.' Powered by a Curtis Wright 225 cc 12.5 horsepower air-cooled engine driving all six wheels, the Bazooo was capable of traversing all kinds of terrain and was fully amphibious, making it a true all-terrain vehicle.
Description: Founded by Malcom McLean as the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation in 1956, McLean introduced the world's first container ship, Ideal-X, which sailed from Newark to Houston with 58 trailers on its deck. This process delivered significant time and cost savings that both improved distribution and expanded international trade capabilities. In 1960, the company name was changed to Sea-Land. In the decades that followed, Sea-Land became known as an intra-regional container shipping company with representation in 29 countries across the Americas. It offered ocean and intermodal services using container ships, trucks, and rail serving customers between North and South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Description: Founded by Donald E. Frederick and Nels B. Nelson in 1891, Frederick & Nelson was known as Seattle’s premier department store. The business expanded to include home delivery of goods, a tea room, and ready-to-wear men’s and women’s fashions, a great deal of which was very much on-trend and from upscale designers. The owners built a reputation for elegance and customer service that was beyond compare in the Seattle area. The Christmas season at Frederick & Nelson was a very special time with stunning window displays, over-the-top decorations, and numerous events held in-store to celebrate the season. This early '60s design is reminiscent of the great holidays of the past that are now just a memory from a long-gone Seattle icon.
Description: In 1906, 23-year-old Ed Austin started a business hauling goods from the railroad station to local businesses with a horse-drawn wagon in Lynden, Washington. Calling his new business Lynden Transfer, Austin hauled everything from furniture to animal feed. By 1947, Lynden was running four trucks, but Austin was looking to retire and sold Lynden Transfer. The new owners wanted to expand north... to Alaska. Despite being told that trucks navigating the rugged Alaska-Canada (Alcan) Highway was impossible, Lynden proved them wrong by delivering a load of meat in 1953. Being faster than ocean and cheaper than air made Lynden a household name, and in 1954 the company began running regular routes between Seattle and multiple cities in Alaska.
Description: Founded in 1891, The Sexauer Company played a significant role in American agriculture. George P. Sexauer started out by establishing a grain milling company in Brookings, South Dakota, and steadily expanded by acquiring other grain mills throughout Brookings County. In the early 1900s, Sexauer expanded his operations beyond milling by getting into seed production and distribution. Calling his line of seeds 'Perfection,' The Sexauer Company became known for their high-quality, premium seeds that offered higher-than-average yields and eventually became the company's primary product that would carry them throughout the 1900s.
Description: This design includes a large Bee Line Dragway imprint on the back and a small AHRA logo on the front making it twice as cool! On July 20, 1963, ground was broken for a drag strip to be built on the Salt River Indian Reservation in what was then a pretty rural area in Scottsdale, Arizona. Jim Rodgers, national 1962 C/S drag champ, built the track on eighty acres of land leased for ten years from the Salt River Pima Indian tribe. Directions to the track were given as being four miles north of the McDowell Road on Arizona Highway 87. It was a 60-foot wide quarter-mile asphalt strip, with seating for 2,000 people, and a pit area to accommodate 300 cars. It opened for every-week Sunday racing on October 6, 1963, under AHRA sanction.
Description: Salem Sue is a giant fiberglass Holstein cow sculpture built in 1974 in New Salem, North Dakota in honor of the local dairy farming industry. The cow, which is hollow, was constructed by Sculpture Mfg. Co in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and then transported in three parts before being assembled on site. The statue stands 38 feet high, 50 feet long, and weighs about 12,000 pounds, making her the world's largest Holstein cow, and a popular roadside attraction. She sits on School Hill near Interstate 94 off exit 127 S and can be seen for miles. Salem Sue was the second giant roadside animal sculpture built in North Dakota, after the world's largest buffalo was erected in Jamestown, North Dakota in 1959.
Description: Service Merchandise was a retail chain of catalog showrooms carrying jewelry, toys, sporting goods, and electronics. The company, which first began in 1934 as a five-and-dime, was in existence for 68 years before ceasing operations in 2002. During the 1970s and 1980s, Service Merchandise was a leading catalog-showroom retailer. At its peak, the company achieved more than $4 billion in annual sales. As the company expanded, it began to open showrooms nationwide, mostly in the vicinity of major shopping malls, which were in vogue in the 1970s.
Description: Skull Valley (Yavapai: Pa:qwawa Kyo) is a small, unincorporated town in Yavapai County, Arizona about seventeen miles west of Prescott. As of the 2020 census, the population is under 800 people. The area was named as such after settlers found human remains from previous battles with Native Americans. Skull Valley General Store was built by E.K. Dutcher in 1916 and changed hands numerous times over the years, but continued to provide necessities for those living in and traveling through Skull Valley, including gasoline pumped from barrels until the gas station was built in 1925. For 67 years, the town post office was inside the store, but finally got its own building in 1986.
Description: Florida has no shortage of off-road shops to lift your rig and trick it out, but if you were looking to convert a 2WD vehicle to 4WD, then Jupiter Off-Road was the place to go. Despite its understated three-bay shop and fairly rural location in Jupiter, Florida, Jupiter Off-Road specialized in creating dream off-roaders to client spec. While a lot of their builds were 4x4 van conversions, they also had their share of converting trucks, and even a few cars to 4WD. No idea how many conversions they did in their twenty-plus years in business, but we do know there are still plenty of them out there standing tall.
Description: BMX began during the early '70s as kids inspired by motocross racers began racing their bicycles on dirt tracks in southern California. In 1974, the National Bicycle League formed as a BMX sanctioning organization and regular organized races began to come together. As BMX racing began to reach a fever pitch, Bob Osborn and Wizard Publications launched Bicycle Motocross Action Magazine in 1976. The new mag would quickly become known as the BMX bible, tracking the races, points, events, riders, and of course, the latest in BMX bikes and equipment. The name was changed to BMX Action in 1982 and the publication continued to run until 1989 at which point it was combined with Freestylin' Magazine to become 'Go' which ran until 1992.
Description: Northwest Auto Parts Company (NAPCO) was founded in 1918 as a specialized mechanical shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Like most manufacturers during WWII, NAPCO refocused their operation on producing vehicle drive assemblies for US military contractors, including those that went into the versatile 4WD general-purpose vehicles. Soldiers experienced the advantages of 4x4 trucks and wanted a 4x4 drivetrain in their trucks when they got home. NAPCO began offering an aftermarket 4x4 conversion kit called Powr-Pak in 1947 that could be bolted onto any truck chassis equipped with Hotchkiss drive. The transfer case was a Spicer unit with an optional Dual-Range Hi-Lo, but the rest of the kit consisted of readily available OEM parts from Detroit.
Description: Ask any horror fan, and they'll agree that the '80s were THE decade for horror. Aisles of VHS horror tapes awaited on the shelves of every local video rental store, but for everyone there was always that one film that really made an indelible mark. The original nightmare is one such flick as it took the common slasher genre into a paranormal space that audiences didn't see coming. It creatively preyed on childhood fears and insecurities, giving viewers a truly unique fright.
Description: M-Tex Oil is a fictional petroleum company meant to represent one of the biggest companies in the Texan oil industry. Founded during the '80s energy crisis to take advantage of domestic oil production, M-Tex takes center stage in the TV drama, Landman. The series follows Tommy Norris in the titular role as the guy who interacts and negotiates directly with landowners to acquire leases for the exploration and development of minerals or other energy sources on behalf of M-Tex.
Description: Camel GT Challenge was an American road racing series organized by International Motor Sports Association. The series was founded in 1969 and Racing began in 1971, and was originally aimed at two of FIA's stock car categories, running two classes each; GT and touring (Group 1 and 2) classes. The first race was an unexpected success, with both the drivers and the spectators who. The following year it was renamed the Camel GT Challenge and a new class, All American Grand Touring (AAGT), was added. The AAGT class was designed to allow tube-frame American cars to compete with limited production sports cars from Europe and lead to faster, more exciting racing. The Camel GT Challenge existed between 1972 and 1993 before a being renamed in 1994.
Description: Every major city has multiple musical instrument stores, but not every one has a dedicated shop catering to drummers. Founded in Munich in 1978, Teufelstrommeln Perkussión (Devil's Drums Percussion) is all about drums. From goblet and timpani drums to acoustic and electric drum sets and everything in between, Teufelstrommeln carried everything the discerning drummer could ever want. And if that isn't enough, their in-house artisans design and build custom drum sets, many of which have been delivered to drummers of world-famous rock and metal bands, as well as studio musicians who demand the very best.
Description: Adolfo Vasquez learned the blacksmith trade in Los Angeles, California. His sister Maria Jesus married Winnall A. Dalton in California, and Adolfo and Dalton went into business together in 1882 making wagons and carriages in Tucson, Arizona. Their shop was a simple pole building, but what they lacked in modern facilities and equipment was more than made up for by skill and craftsmanship. Dalton, himself a man of culture and an artisan of rare skill, while Vasquez was both a master blacksmith and a splendid mechanic. The carriages that rolled out of their shop were works of art, made principally from second growth hickory and yellow poplar wood with Norway iron hand-forgings, all trimmed and painted like the finest home furnishings.
Description: McLean Trucking Company was founded in 1934 by Malcom McLean in Raleigh, North Carolina, but would soon relocate to Winston-Salem. McLean's first decade saw rapid growth through acquisitions, building a network that let them pioneer what would become the less-than-truckload (LTL) industry. Always looking forward, Malcom dreamed of creating an intermodal network where trailers could be moved by container up and down the coast. To pull this off, he had to sell his trucking company, as US law at the time didn't allow for the ownership of both truck and ship lines, but his gamble paid off. Malcom founded what would become Sea-Land in 1957, and he became known as the father of standardized ocean freight containers.
Description: Wally Gator was an American cartoon series that ran on TV as part of a syndicated cartoon block from September 3, 1962, to August 26, 1963 for 52 episodes. The show's title character, Wally Gator, is an anthropomorphic, happy-go-lucky alligator who wears a collar and a pork pie hat. Although his catchy theme song describes him as a "swingin' alligator of the swamp," he actually lives in the city zoo. The zookeeper, Mr. Twiddle, keeps a close watch on Wally, who likes to check out what life is like in the outside world, and routinley gets into trouble.
Description: Hot Rod is a 1979 American made-for-television movie about a drag-racer who enters the Munn's Root Beer Nationals at the Bayland drag strip in Freemont, California. However, he runs up against the town boss, a corrupt sheriff who has made arrangements to ensure that his own son wins the race. Every competitor who doesn't run a Munn's decal on their car is harassed by the cops, but in the end, the underdogs turn the tables.
Description: John Clifford Garrett founded a company in Los Angeles in 1936 which came to be known as Garrett AiResearch or simply AiResearch. The company was first named Aircraft Tool and Supply Company, but in early 1937, it was renamed Garrett Supply Company. In 1939, it became AiResearch and shortly thereafter AiResearch Manufacturing Company, which then became a division within the Garrett Corporation. AiResearch initially focused on the creating of pressurized flight equipment for passenger aircraft, but later got heavily into the development of turbo systems, including complete turboprop and turbofan aircraft engines.
Description: When it opened its doors in 1988, BS West was the only gay bar in Scottsdale, and when they closed their doors for good in early 2024, were again the only gay bar in town. The bar was a place that many in the Arizona LGBTQ+ community were happy to call their local hangout. BS West maintained a diverse yet unified customer base that came in all colors, shapes, ages, and sizes. The bar was well known for their nightly entertainment, most notably their fabulous drag shows, and their closing left a hole in the community that won't be easy to fill.
Description: Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from October 10, 1970 to April 6, 1991. It was known for including posters in the center of the paper (initially black and white, then color from late 1971) and later for covering heavy metal (especially the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM)), punk, Oi! music in its late '70s–early '80s heyday. It was produced by Spotlight Publications, which was set up by John Thompson and Jo Saul with Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left Melody Maker to start their own company. Sounds was their first project, a weekly paper devoted to progressive rock and described by Hutton, to those he was attempting to recruit from his former publication, as "a leftwing Melody Maker."
Description: Safeway Truck Lines was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1935 by W.S. Harrington as an interstate truck line service as a solution to the inefficiencies and prohibitive costs of railroad freight at the time. Harrington’s goal was to provide a reliable, cost-effective way to transport perishable goods, particularly meat. Starting small, the company expanded significantly in the late '50s with the acquisition of several regional carriers, adding more trucks, terminals, and routes to its growing operation. By this time, Harrington had retired, leaving Safeway in the hands of new leadership that continued to grow the business. By the late '80s, Safeway Truck Lines was acquired and eventually closed, leaving behind a legacy of quality.
Description: In the early '70s DIY trike kits had their moment in the sun. Advertised in the back of magazines, these kits ran the gamut from a set of basic plans to far out fiberglass bodies and prefabricated frames where all buyers needed was a Type I engine, transaxle, and suspension, and then a chopper style front fork setup. Clyde Stires was a purveyor of the latter, designing and manufacturing an assortment of futuristic trike bodies, frames, and custom accessories in his Garden Grove studio to help people assemble the 3-wheeler of their dreams. Folks liked building something fun that they could use to get the open air feeling of a motorcycle with the stability of a car and could be built from mild to wild.
Description: Developed and released in 1983, Juno First is a fixed shooter arcade game with a slightly tilted perspective, similar to 1980's Radar Scope. The game presents a set number of enemies per level, but they do not make a gallery formation like similar space themed fixed shooters. Instead, the player's ship can move forward and backward (in addition to left and right) to hunt enemies in an orientation that is vertical, but has some horizon-oriented tilt. This style of gameplay would be re-used in a later shooter, called Axelay. The player destroys waves of enemies to finish levels. Starting formations vary from stage to stage. In addition, the player can pick up a humanoid, upon which the screen will have a red tint.
Description: 'Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy' is a song by British rock band Bad Company. It was released as the first single from the group's 1979's studio album, Desolation Angels, quickly becoming a hit. It's considered to be one of the best songs ever written about what it's like living the life of a star in the music business and is one of the group's best-known songs that remains a staple of classic rock radio today.
Description: The 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater began when the then Senator of Arizona elected to seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States to challenge incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. From the beginning of his campaign, Goldwater fought an uphill battle to unseat the incumbent president under favorable economic circumstances. Goldwater consistently refused to moderate his views, which alienated a significant portion of the more moderate wing of the Republican Party from his campaign. Following a battle with moderate and liberal Republicans in the Republican primary, Goldwater won the nomination for president, but come Election Day, he lost the election to Johnson by a huge margin.
Description: Turkey is fairly common throughout America, but what most folks don't realize is that most turkey products come from the state of Minnesota. Founded in 1943 in Lanesboro, Minnesota, Solberg Turkey Farms is one such producer of turkey. Specializing in premium free-range turkey, the Solberg's are a farming family that have generations of experience in raising the perfect birds, be it for chefs wanting a better product, or for special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
