Toolman
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My mother's b'day was a week ago. She turned 80. I'm 60. So we had a little get together at her place for just family. Pizza, ice cream, cokes, and an old family album I'd not seen before. It was like a 2nd album that my mother had thrown all the leftover pictures from the main album.
So I'm paging thru this 2nd album, and I can't believe what I'm looking at. 3 flatties that my father built and played with from before I was born, until I turned 6 yrs old (when my sister was born). I'd heard of these boats from my father's friends, but never new what they looked like. I jumped up and yelled OMG! My wife runs over and looks at what I'm pointing at, and then she says "Wow". Now everybody at the get together is huddled around the album and my nephew with his iphone takes the album outside for the best light, and captures the boats. Notice the incline on the Gold In Rod's trailer. I guess it was for launching.
So enjoy these old pics. "Linda III", "Gold In Rod", and his favorite and last (according to my mother) "Nut Kraker" which was blown. These are mid to late 50's.
Please chime in if you know these boats or what make they were. I especially love the '59 chevy wagon pulling one of them. My father's name was Joe Collins. He was from the So Cal. He hung around the South Gate, Downey, Bell, Cudahy, Bellflower, Lakewood areas.
So I'm paging thru this 2nd album, and I can't believe what I'm looking at. 3 flatties that my father built and played with from before I was born, until I turned 6 yrs old (when my sister was born). I'd heard of these boats from my father's friends, but never new what they looked like. I jumped up and yelled OMG! My wife runs over and looks at what I'm pointing at, and then she says "Wow". Now everybody at the get together is huddled around the album and my nephew with his iphone takes the album outside for the best light, and captures the boats. Notice the incline on the Gold In Rod's trailer. I guess it was for launching.
So enjoy these old pics. "Linda III", "Gold In Rod", and his favorite and last (according to my mother) "Nut Kraker" which was blown. These are mid to late 50's.
Please chime in if you know these boats or what make they were. I especially love the '59 chevy wagon pulling one of them. My father's name was Joe Collins. He was from the So Cal. He hung around the South Gate, Downey, Bell, Cudahy, Bellflower, Lakewood areas.