Portraits of Boxers

Ace Hudkins

The Harry E. Winkler Photographic Collection includes more than 7,500 different boxing related images in various formats. Winkler was a longtime Los Angeles area fight figure and California correspondent for The Ring magazine from 1939 to 1953. He is best remembered, however, for his extensive collection of boxing photographs, many of which were acquired by the University Libraries of Notre Dame in 1977. Highlights of the collection include close to 4000 4 x 5 inch glass negatives, mostly taken in California in the 1920s and 30s. These are typically posed portraits, of individuals or groups; virtually no fight scenes are included. Among the boxers best represented (by more than 30 plates) are: Sgt. Sammy Baker, Newsboy Brown, Tony Canzoneri, Bert Colima, Speedy Dado, Jack Dempsey, Joe Dundee, Jackie Fields, Ace Hudkins, Les Kennedy, Fidel LaBarba, Jimmy McLarnin, Tod Morgan, Tommy O'Brien, Lee Ramage, Baby Sal Sorio, Bud Taylor, and Mickey Walker.

Kid Azteca

Baby Joe  Gans

Billy Barnes

Billy Townsend

Dave Shade

Izzy Jannazo

Jack Kid Berg

Johnny Risko

Leo Rodak

Long Tom Hawkins

Lou Ambers

Lou Nova

Max Baer

Midget Wolgast

Sammy Mandel

Young Sam Langford

Tiger Flowers

Billy Papke & Billy Papke Jr.

Ace Hudkins

Tony Chavez

Star Frisco

Juan Zurita

Goldie Hess

Cecil Payne

Johnny Lamar

Here come the Zingers!

Here come the Zingers! Wild little vehicles with huge motors and wheels! Perfect for young modelers and irresistible to veteran collectors, the Zingers pack a huge punch in a small package. Featuring many chrome details, these easy to assemble kits look fantastic when built and, for the first time ever, will come with decals for decorating the bodies. Molded in white and black with chrome plated parts. 

The Zingers were taken from an original concept developed in the early 1970s by Denny Johnson, a master model builder during those years. His idea of putting oversized engines and wheels in a smaller scale body was received very well at model contests and custom car shows. MPC's engineering team turned the idea into the Zingers series which grew to a total of eight great kits. The Super Van Zinger looks tough with it's eight injector pipes coming through the roof. Add wheelie bars and a parachute and this vintage van is ready to drag. The kit even includes a special bonus photo postcard of the real Super Van Zinger built by Chuck Miller. Decals included. 

1972 MPC ZINGERS Model Ad

Comicad MPC ZINGERS models

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Super Van assembly kit

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Super Semi assembly kit

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Super Volks assembly kit

Super Dune assembly kit

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Bonus photo postcard of the real Super Vette

Bonus photo postcard of the real Super Van

Bonus photo postcard of the real Super Volks

Auto shows ad

Super Volks parts overview

Old packaging (Little Red model kit)

New packaging ('Lil Red model kit)

 

Smokejumping

Camp sign at the Nine Mile base, 1940s

The feasibility of dropping firefighters by parachute to combat forest fires had been under consideration by Forest Service fire control officials for a number of years. With the rapid improvement of aircraft in the 1920s and early 1930s, the dropping of supplies and equipment proved to be practical means of supplying firefighters.

The actual idea of parachuting men to fight fire is attributed to a forest ranger in Utah, T.V. Pearson, who experimented with the idea in 1934. After a few demonstrations by a professional jumper, J.B. Bruce, the idea was abandoned as being too risky. The few men who pioneered parachute jumping were considered to be publicity crazy or just plain crazy.

Using parachutes to drop supplies and the potential for dropping men onto a fire could not be ignored, however, and a man appeared on the scene who would be the guiding light for the future smokejumping program. David Godwin was the assistant chief of fire control in the Washington office of the Forest Service and head of the Aerial Fire Control Experimental Project. This was a program begun in California to study the feasibility of dropping chemicals or water from the air to retard forest fire movement.

In the early summer of 1939 Godwin transferred his experimental project from California to the Forest Service's Intercity Airport, located between Twisp and Winthrop, Wash., in Region Six (Chelan National Forest).

When it was decided that bombing fires from the air was impractical, Godwin shifted the project to developing a safe, practical method of dropping men from the air to fight fires.

Distended canopy of an Eagle parachute showing details of design Nov.1939

Leather football helmets and wire cages were used for years for head and face protection

Fully dressed smokejumper, Aug.1945

Frank Derry, Chet Derry, Harrold King and Allen Honey at Winthrop, Wash., 1939

Smokejumpers prior to take-off from Missoula for Washington, D.C.

The pionneer Alaska jump crew in 1959

Smokejumpers Go Hollywood

"Red Skies of Montana"

A still shot from the movie "Red Skies of Montana"

Certificate presented to President Eisenhower

Civilian Conservation Corps felt patch

Forest Service Patch

Forest Service Volunteer Patch

Contemporary Smokejumper

Smoke jumper ready to jump