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Today’s Parking Lot Series feature contains something for everyone, three different images taken in two different decades. The lead photo is a 1969 view of the Alright Auto parking lot located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This facility utilized hydraulically actuated storage racks that lifted and stored an automobile high enough off of the ground so that another…
Today’s expandable feature image shot on November 1, 1940, in Fort Worth, Texas, is one of several taken in the City at the time to document dysfunctional intersections. At the corner where West 7th and Henderson Streets meet in Fort Worth is the Mastin-Parris Motor Company, a dealership and distributor of De Sota and Plymouth automobiles. In front…
This “Pleasant” Gilmore Service Station was selling six gallons of “Higher Gravity” gasoline for a dollar, which today appears to be a very low price for fuel. Back in the late-1920s when today’s lead image was taken the cost of this fuel per gallon was 16.6 cents. With inflation over the years added in it…
Orrin W. Fox’s used car lot was located at 2345 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, when this promotional photo for Fox, dated by the source was taken in 1933. At that time due to the Great Depression, it was a buyers market, and Fox’s signage reflects that situation. The newest cars in the front…
Today’s street scene image of an unidentified intersection in Atlanta, Georgia, is a press photo that documented traffic congestion in the City. Surrounding this intersection are a number of businesses that dealt with servicing vehicles, on the far-left is a Standard Oil filling station, a General Tire shop and an Auto Loan business. On the right-hand…
Today’s feature image was taken in Weatherford, Texas, during a parade in the City in 1953. The municipality is located about thirty miles west of Fort Worth. The buntings hanging from the light-colored building on the far-left corner apparently indicate that the parade may have been held on the Fourth of July. A Gulf Oil Company…
Today’s feature image dated September of 1945 contains an unidentified intersection in Atlanta, Georgia. For old car enthusiasts who enjoy viewing old photos this picture has it all, a busy street scene, a filling station, and a parking lot. The Standard Oil gasoline station on the right-hand corner has a parking lot costing 75-cents a…
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