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The corner of Brown and Free Streets in the City of Portland, Maine is the location of today’s late-1930s Gas Station Series photo. The entire lot appears to be a part of the operation centered by the near new Cities Service filling station and service garage building located on the corner. A tire shop and…
To celebrate Number 200 of the Four Fun Friday Kodachrome Car Photographs series we have chosen a set of special images to share with you of the Esso Tiger and band entertaining motorists while filling up at Humble Oil Co. stations. In the early-1960s Humble spent millions of dollars on a new advertising campaign to…
The Hispano-Suiza was built in Barcelona, Spain between the years of 1904 to 1937 and is regarded by many as one of the best and most luxurious pre-war cars in the world. The design and engineering of the company’s aircraft engines, automobiles, trucks, and buses were under the direction of Marc Birkigt a brilliant Swiss…
This tourist’s postcard photograph titled “A Regular Sunday Crowd – Avila, California” was taken in the town of Avila Beach in the early-1950s on Front Street. The view is looking toward the center of the town with Avila Beach Park and the commercial fishing pier on the right. The oil storage tanks on the hill…
Today we return to the Gasoline Station Series with four new photos of facilities located in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana. The expandable circa-1940 lead image contains a view of the “Formal Opening” day at a small Shell Oil Company filling station located in Lexington, Kentucky at the intersection of Union and Henley streets. The local…
Every once in a while an vintage photograph comes along that is a perfect representative of the era that it was taken in and this image taken in Houston, Texas certainly fits the bill. This shot was taken in the early evening during the late-1950s by a man named Strickland who operated the Auto Exchange,…
We return to the Chevrolet Muncie, Indiana Transmission Plant today with a second set of photos that begin here with a view of the inside of a repair and maintenance garage in the lead image. A fleet of a half-a-dozen 1965 full-sized Chevrolets (visible in other photos) were kept at the factory at the time…
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