Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Ellsworth Maine

 

Prolly not…

 

Claremont Speedway pace car.

 

Mid America Raceway

 

I know of this story, but I never knew of, or noticed the chalk outline of the plane on the street until today.
For some reason I find that bit hilarious!

 

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So what is the story about the plane on the street ?

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Right. Did it die? Or kill somebody? Definitely has a crime scene look to it. And what a good pilot to land in between those buildings and cars.

 

The short version is this fellow Thomas Fitzpatrick turned a barroom bet into a feat of aeronautic wonder by stealing a plane from a New Jersey airport and landing it on St. Nicholas Avenue in northern Manhattan, in front of the bar where he had been drinking.

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/...-on-an-uptown-street-thats-where-the-bar-was/

 

He was drunkern a skunk when he did it.
And the amazing thing is, he did it again a couple of years later. He was drinking at a tavern and someone said there was no way he actually landed the plane in front of the bar in 1956. So to prove the challenger wrong he went out, stole another plane and landed IT in front of the tavern.

 

Hope his bet covered all his legal bills.

 

I have no idea. But it doubt it.

 

If I were that guy I would do all my drinking in the desert. At some point your luck runs out, especially if you’re bombed.

 

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Orthmann's picture in post 28870 even has a wagon in it ... and it's a woodie !!!!!!!!!

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