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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Allen Goff on December 20, 2011, 04:37:48 PM

Title: Old pictures
Post by: Allen Goff on December 20, 2011, 04:37:48 PM: I payed a visit to Roger Wildman today and he got out his old picture album. I brought home a few pictures to share with you all, enjoy.

Blessings and Merry Christmas
Allen

#1: 7th Pylmouth internationl banquet
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: Allen Goff on December 20, 2011, 04:44:49 PM: Picture #2: Does anyone know this young man, Roger said he won junior at the 1952 Nats at Los Alamitos Naval airstation.
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Post by: Allen Goff on December 20, 2011, 04:47:37 PM: Jim, this photo is for you. Roger said he did not know if you had this picture or not.
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Post by: wwwarbird on December 20, 2011, 07:10:23 PM: Very cool stuff Allen, thanks for sharing! y1
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Post by: Shultzie on December 20, 2011, 07:20:01 PM: ROGER IS TRULY AN ICON....WOW!
Truly a gifted CLPA builder and an amazingly gifted flyer! I have a bunch of slides that I have taken of Roger's models somewhere in my boxes of old photos..
Time to dig em' up! H^^ CLP** BW@
BOB HUNT..
IF YOU ARE LURKING...TIME TO POST MORE ROGER TALK N' PHOTOS...
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: john e. holliday on December 21, 2011, 09:36:45 AM: Great pictures, but how about one when Roger was a skinny kid. LL~ LL~ Roger is one of my heroes of my younger days when I used to be a skinny kid. H^^
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: dale gleason on December 22, 2011, 01:02:38 PM: No response to the identity of the young man in picture #2? dg
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Post by: Derek Barry on December 22, 2011, 01:08:40 PM: Quote from: dale gleason on December 22, 2011, 01:02:38 PM
No response to the identity of the young man in picture #2? dg

I will ask Dad if he knows. My uncle Charles was 2nd in Junior that year I think.

Derek
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: Will Davis on December 22, 2011, 01:52:55 PM: I have a Original Trophy from that same Contest, It says First Place Control Line B Speed. We plan to reuse it for a perpetual trophy at the Huntersville Contest . Guess it is one of the many that are in the big Banquet picture .

Looks like it was a really big deal in it's time

Will
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: EddyR on December 22, 2011, 01:56:44 PM: What's a" Plymouth" ~^
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Post by: john e. holliday on December 22, 2011, 07:10:36 PM: Another kid in the woods. The Plymouth Internats used to be one of the biggest contests in the USA. H^^ I guess the kids would not know what a Plymouth is. LL~ LL~
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Post by: John Kelly on December 22, 2011, 09:26:32 PM: Only a guess...
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Post by: Bill Little on December 23, 2011, 07:50:22 AM: Quote from: john e. holliday on December 22, 2011, 07:10:36 PM
Another kid in the woods. The Plymouth Internats used to be one of the biggest contests in the USA. H^^ I guess the kids would not know what a Plymouth is. LL~ LL~

HI Doc,

As you, Ed, and I know a Plymouth is kin to the Desoto and Oldsmobile. y1 LL~ LL~ LL~

BIG Bear
AMM
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: EddyR on December 24, 2011, 01:17:26 PM: I had two Plymouth's. A 1968 Roadrunner coup,383 and a 1968 Roadrunner hardtop,Hemi. Both four speeds.
I had several friends who went to the Plymouth Nats but" I was to young to go anywhere with those guys" my mother said. Z@@ZZZ
In 1954 I went to the Mirror Meet with those same guys.
Ed
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: Dennis Adamisin on December 24, 2011, 01:33:16 PM: My mother & father are sitting somewhere in that first picture...
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Post by: Dick Pacini on December 24, 2011, 02:34:06 PM: Quote from: Bill Little on December 23, 2011, 07:50:22 AM
HI Doc,

As you, Ed, and I know a Plymouth is kin to the Desoto and Oldsmobile. y1 LL~ LL~ LL~

BIG Bear
AMM

Plymouth and Desoto were both Chrysler products. Oldsmobile was General Motors.
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: don Burke on December 24, 2011, 07:12:45 PM: Quote from: Dick Pacini on December 24, 2011, 02:34:06 PM
Plymouth and Desoto were both Chrysler products. Oldsmobile was General Motors.
But they're related by condition, deceased!
Title: Re: Old pictures
Post by: jim ivey on December 25, 2011, 07:08:27 AM: doc. if thats a "halfast" , and it looks like ir is . i dont think it exiisted in 1952 also oldsmobile is GM. sprakin of old cars. dennis schauer had an air cooled frankllin touring car, i forgot what year. so tacky it was cool!!!! another friend had a crosley sdation wagon. it would only hold 1/2 a size planes :(
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Post by: jim ivey on December 25, 2011, 07:14:37 AM: Allen many thanks to you and roger. air plane is sitting a beer can noy mine of course, i was 16 then. jim