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The Battle with the Fence at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Race Track in...
The photos on this post may have been the best of the best when it came to keeping the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition carpenters in gainful employment during the 1950's. The wooden fence was to keep non...
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My Annual Fake Magazine Covers...for HR&J...or call it Fake News...😁
MERRY CHRISTMASall our family, friends and Facebook friends in Canada and the USA as well. In case you didn't know, The Hot Rods and Jalopies Generation Blog was actually the very firstlocal photo...
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Happy New Year 2018....
It's difficult to believe how fast the years fly by. Thank you all for your support through the years as well as those who have donated photos stories and memories. A great time was had at the "When...
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Then's, Now's and More History from our Home Towns of Fort William and Port...
It's always interesting to go back into ones history and consider what our government officials whether it be locally, provincially or federally thought about our future, and what would become of these...
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NEW February edition of ...... Then's and Now's in our home towns of Fort...
This post has a few more Then and Now photos to help us, not so much so that you would remember the pictures, because some of us obviously are not old enough to remember many of them, but to touch on...
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Lost and Mostly Forgotten 1915 Business Advertising in our home towns of Fort...
As luck would have it, a donation to the HR&J Blog pages by my wife's cousin Mike last year has prompted me to get busy, and away from Facebook for a bit. Writing on these pages has become...
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More of the 1950's at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Race Track in our home...
It's difficult to believe that fully organized racing began here in our Lakehead cities as far back as the 1920s, but the Hotrods and Jalopies Generation in my mind started in 1952 with a race held in...
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We Need a Little Love This Christmas in our Home Town of Thunder Bay - City...
A small Christmas post to encourage The City of Thunder Bay, formerly Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario to erect a huge Christmas Tree on the City Hall property as they used to do, "in the good ol'...
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Thoughts of Christmas Memories in our Hometowns of Fort William and Port...
Merry Christmas to all, and let it be said that I have neglected my blog pages terribly this past year for many reasons(no excuses), but like others have spent way too much time on my Face book page....
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CLE Championship Racing 1958 - New and never seen before racing photos from...
I'm always on the hunt for new photos that have never been posted here, and as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer. This past August I was given a little album of photos by old friend Bernard...
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THIS Fort William & Port Arthur Ontario, now Thunder Bay's FIRST History...
I am incredibly grateful for everyone's support over the past 10 years, as without the many readers of the Hotrods and Jalopies blog pages, I would have likely never continued with it. HR&J is also...
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113-119 Leith St., 234 Park St., Destroying Vintage Cars? and The Powder Puff...
I am off to a great start in the last few days doing posts for my own facebook page and the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Memories facebook page, but MOST importantly my premier site HR&J...
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Ralph Darling's Service Station 1954 and it's Significance at 906 Victoria...
Looking back through photos and documents in my archives I had some photos that mentioned Darling's Service and I knew where it was located but the best help was in finding this photo clipping of...
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Streetcars and Advertising from The Civic/Electric Railway era in our...
Yes....I'm still here with the Hot Rods and Jalopies Facebook page. Many apologies for being so preoccupied with other things that I have been negligent in my writings here on my blog. Myself and my...
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"ALL GAVE SOME, BUT SOME GAVE ALL"....Remembrance Day in Thunder Bay, Ontario...
This 2013 post is more relevant today in my mind and feel it needs to be seen again.We only have a few veterans left from the second world war and none from the first world war so if you encounter a...
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A Christmas Card and Some Christmas Memories from the Fabulous '50's and "60's
A Very Merry Christmas to Everyone and of course I'm sorry for not being diligent with my posts. No excuses...just promises to get to more. This is just a little Christmas Memory post from younger...
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Winter 2020 Self Isolation 1:25 Scale Diorama Project with some Fort William...
Finally after many months I've put together a completely different kind of post. This is my COVID-19 isolation project....no I don't have it, just being careful and smart. We all know we're in this...
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A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THIS AUGUST 2nd, 2020....rain date Aug. 3rd
MARK AUGUST 2nd ON YOUR CALENDAR......rain date August 3rdThe Canadian Lakehead Exhibition has announced the event of the year for 2020. This is the CLE's 130th Anniversary year and what a crazy year...
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A Night To Remember......A Special Thank You to all involved this past weekend.
Found by Glenn McKinnon, this is one of my favorite photos taken at the CLE grounds in front of the old grandstand and the old judges stand. This is very close to the spot on the Canadian Lakehead...
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Retro Christmases....Wishing for Simpler Times in North America this...
Merry Christmas and another year has almost passed and with most of us, we want it gone. Here we go again, no excuses, but its been ages since I've had a post here, spending too much time on my...
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Broad Perspectives......Then's, Now's and More History From Our Home Towns of...
Top photo #24 -?, #88 Albert Massaro, #87 Tony Massaro, #10 Don Marsh.......We love to confront our broad perspective on history by seeing what was and of course what is now. As historians we enjoy...
View ArticleCanadian Lakehead Exhibition 1953/54 fresh and new Stock Car film & written...
Rarely do we find an old piece of never seen before film from the original Canadian Lakehead Exhibition 1/2 mile track, and before I show it to you, I have to thank a few people for it's find and...
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Christmas Memories in our Home Towns of Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario...
Here's my annual Christmas Post with some familiar local photos and also some familiar memories that we likely all will remember. The past year has been up and down for us and many others, but as...
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New photos from the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Racing Days in our home...
With much thanks to Paula Orr and the owner of these photos, Gary Becotte and with permission we are able to add an all new HR&J post after many months. Some of these photos are very rare to...
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