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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2015 - Vintage Halloween magazine ad's and memories from our...
Halloween is almost here....then Christmas....geez, it seems like I just put our tree away.   For you Americans, us Canadians have already had our Thanksgiving turkey, and after Halloween there's...
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LEST WE FORGET.....WE WILL REMEMBER.....on the 11th hour of the 11th day of...
Remembrance Day 2015All gave some.......some gave all.   Below is a photo of my father (in the blue square) at 23 years old in the Remnants division, 2nd Ack Ack Battery, Royal Canadian Army,...
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My '26 Ford "T" Coach here at home.....progress report....
I don't usually do blog posts on my projects...I usually leave that to my facebook page however, I've had several messages asking how the "T" is coming along. Â At one point I was going to do a complete...
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NEW/OLD PHOTOS......ALWAYS A GOOD REASON FOR A POST.....from Fort William and...
On Hot Rods and Jalopies, there is always a reason for a good story/post....be it that someone put an idea in my head, someone sent me some new old photos from around Fort William and Port Arthur, the...
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Another CLE race track's unsung hero, Conrad Trombelli....in our home towns...
Conrad Trombelli was another unsung hero of our old Canadian Lakehead Exhibition racing days. Â About a year ago I received an email from a young lady who was a friend of Conrad's son....sadly I can't...
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First 2015 Christmas Post...tongue in cheek magazine cover...etc. in our home...
I'll start off by wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas Season, and as we warm up to the Christmas shopping nightmare, we always need a little comic relief or at least something to get us in the mood...
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2015 post #2 - A New Tongue-in-cheek HR&J Magazine Cover & 50's & 60's...
This post starts with one more tongue-in-cheek Hot Rods and Jalopies Christmas Magazine cover.....Enjoy! Â This is a large post so scroll down, click on all the pictures to enlarge and enjoy this second...
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2015 Merry Christmas Post #3 ... My FB Caption Winner plus Christmas & Winter...
Merry Christmas post #3. Â We had a little contest on my facebook page where we added the photo art below and asked friends to caption it. Â The impartial judges were my wife and my grand-daughter shown...
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A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS here on Hotrods and Jalopies. Â 2015 was a very busy hectic year for our family with travel, health issues, the passing of my father and the illness...
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Building Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario in the 1950's...
FIRSTLY, I WANT TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO VOTED FOR HOT RODS AND JALOPIES TO MAKE THIS BLOG #1 FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW IN THE WALLEYE NEWS READERS POLL. Much appreciated.A recent find (first 3...
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An Interesting Photo to Examine....from Chippewa Park in our home towns of...
Scrutinizing old photos is much simpler in modern times then back in the 1950s or earlier, as we are able to use modern technology at a reasonable cost to enlarge old photos to see more of the detail....
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Lyn McIntosh photo tribute - "A Man for all Seasons", and HOME TOWN HERO....
With sadness we announce the passing of Lyn McIntosh this past weekend. Â Our condolences to Lenore, the entire McIntosh family and Lyn's brothers, my old friends Dwight, Craig and Grant. Â The following...
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The 1962 GRAND OPENING of Blake's Texaco, 147 W. Arthur St., at Brown St., in...
It's very rare that quality photographs and great subject matter turn up at the same time especially after 54 years. Â They have shown up on facebook pages before in the Thunder Bay Memories pages,...
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School Days at St. Mary's RC School..... 1950's in our home towns of Fort...
I've been waiting for some time to do this post, but a photo of the original St. Mary's School had eluded me for quite some time. Â Thanks to facebook friend Keiran Patrick, I now have a photo of the...
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More Legendary CLE Racing Stories from our hometowns of Fort William and Port...
This post starts with a Then and Now picture so as to imagine where the 1/2 mile dirt track named the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition race track (Lakehead Stock Car Club) was actually located. Â The golf...
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A 1950's Canadian Tire Story in our home town of Fort William...
This post is relatively short compared to the last few posts but I feel that this is a stand alone story from our Hot Rods and Jalopies era.If one waits long enough, a picture that you've been waiting...
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39 Then and Now photos of our home towns of Fort William & Port Arthur ......
This is the largest group of photos loaded into one post on HR&J. Â These are mostly "Then and Now" posts that I had loaded onto my facebook page in the past number of months. They will include...
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The Lunch Bunch BBQ....featuring living legends of our CLE racing...
Much thanks to Roger Rickards for hosting a memorable BBQ at his place with our typical "Lunch Bunch" group and three very special guests....left to right - Louis (Bobcat) Tocheri (The Scrapper), Glen...
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The Lunch Bunch BBQ....featuring living legends of our CLE racing...
Much thanks to Roger Rickards for hosting a memorable BBQ at his place with our typical "Lunch Bunch" group and three very special guests....left to right - Louis (Bobcat) Tocheri (The Scrapper), Glen...
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