This is Throwback Thursday #267. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com.

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We have something a little different today.  We post many old photos here and quite a few are from old field trips. Quite often, you can see interesting old cars in the background. Here is a nice sampling of old cars from the 1950s and a couple from the 1960s.

This photo is labled as a 1953 field trip to a cave in Wisonsin. That looks like a Nash Statesman in the front on the left and a 1951 Studebaker Champion in the front on the right.  Check out those suicide doors in the back!

This 1957 photo from the Plattevill Wisconsin Convention features an absolutely gorgeous 1953 Oldmobile Super 88. Is the owner locking the trunk or shining it up?   The Donna Mae riverboat is behind it.  Riverboats were a common sight on America’s rivers.  They were used for transport and entertainment.

Gotta love that 1953 Ford Ranch Wagon behind Stevens Norvell.  Olive Knight is on the far left and her husband Howard the far left.  The other couple in the Bonows – Walter and Hazel.  The car makes you think of surfing not fossils!  This photo is from the convention in Colorado in 1957.

Dorothy and John Ade appear in these photos from a 1959 field trip to Galena, IL.  Vi Sobolik in the background next to her 1958 Chevy Biscayne. On the left is a 1958 Oldsmobile Super 88. In the second photo, that’s a 1953 Nash Ambassador on the right 

This is June Douglas (in front of the station wagon) with Harry and Catherine Matthies at a field trip in Grafton, IL in 1966.  June is the mother of Dave Douglas the founder of “Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop” in Evanston, IL.

Another (better) view of the cars.  The station wagon is a 1964 Chevy Impala.  The Volkswagon is a 1966 VW Bug.