Author: Ron Adam
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: series, crestline, 1950s, rigs
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-11-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0760309787
ISBN-13: 9780760309780
The continued improvement of roadways and the dawn of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s was a boon to American industry in general and the trucking industry in particular. Railways no longer represented the only practical means of transporting goods from town to town and state to state. This marque-by-marque photo collection provides a comprehensive and nostalgic look back at the rapid development of tractor-trailer rigs which resulted during the decade of Ike and tailfins. Manufacturers like GMC, Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, White, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Diamond T, Internation
Author: Richard A. Schwartz
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: history, eyewitness, 1950s
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-11
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0816045976
ISBN-13: 9780816045976
Author: Mike Ashman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: 1950s, 1940s, kauai
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0824829042
ISBN-13: 9780824829049
This is a lively firsthand account of life on Kauai when sugar plantations were at the center of island life.
Author: Jon Robinson
Publisher: Krause Publications
Keywords: chrysler, 1950s, catalog, standard
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-11-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0896892492
ISBN-13: 9780896892491
Appeals to a devoted collector car community - including 4,000+ members of the Walter P. Chrysler Club, and 50,000 members of the Antique Automobile Club of America Features never-before published production figures - useful to Chrysler enthusiasts for determining rarity Entertaining and informative guide to some of the coolest cars of the 1950s Chrysler enthusiasts will discover a "family" album like none other in ’50s Chrysler, The Ultimate Guide. Chrysler, Dodge, DeSoto, Plymouth and Imperial - the gang is all here --with technical specifications collectors and enthusiasts ne
Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: 1950s, dictionary, historical
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2000-07-30
List price: $112.95
ISBN-10: 0313306192
ISBN-13: 9780313306198
Today, Americans look back nostalgically at the 1950s, an era when television and rock and roll revolutionized popular culture, and Vietnam, race riots, drug abuse, and protest movements were still in the future. With homes in the suburbs, new automobiles, and the latest electrical gadgets, many Americans believed they were the most prosperous people on earth. Yet the era was tainted by the fear of thermonuclear war, deepening racial tensions, and discontent with rigid roles for women and the demands of corporate conformity. A sense of rebellion had begun to brew behind the facade. This book p
Author: Martyn Wainwright
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Keywords: colour, motorsport, 1950s
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-11-21
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 1904788157
ISBN-13: 9781904788157
A unique collection of original color photographs of Grand Prix and Sports cars taken between 1954 and 1959 make this book a MUST for enthusiasts. Color photographs transport the reader back to a time when motorsport was much more accessible, with relatively little regulation. The images lend a sense of being there during a heroic era of motorsport in England and Ireland. Races and hill climbs covered include Goodwood, Ulster TT, Brands Hatch, Prescott and Shelsley Walsh.
Author: Don Ball
Publisher: Elm Tree Books
Keywords: 1950s, 1940s, railroad, pennsylvania
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1986-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0393023575
ISBN-13: 9780393023572
An extensive and colorful salute to the nation’s largest railroad during its most dramatic years, by one of America’s most prominent railroad authors. 286 full-color photographs.
