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Next to the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition held at the San Diego Fairgrounds, Casey Ford a local dealer constructed and opened a “Master Service Station.” The Gilmore Oil Company joined the Ford agency as the supplier of gasoline, and motor oil. The Companies 1934 Mack tanker complete with exterior neon lighting powered by an onboard…
This Friday the feature Kodachrome image is identified by the source as a view of a harborside thoroughfare in San Diego, California, filled with early-to-mid-1950s automobiles. We see a blue sky, palm trees, short sleeve shirts and a wide array of mostly pastel-colored cars to check out. On the other side of the coin, since…
We apologize once again for a late and short post today due to the lingering effects of power, phone and internet outages here in Vermont caused by a wet and heavy snowstorm that fell earlier in the week. Today’s feature circa-1958 image contains a mix of late-1930s to late-1950s automobiles and trucks on an unknown section…
Today’s feature image taken in late-1928 at El Paso, Texas contains an attractive 1929 Buick series 121 model 64 roadster with all new styling. The automobile is parked in front of the El Paso Buick distributor and sales agency with Jake Erlich, the “World’s Tallest Man,” accompanied by two female models; he may have been a salesman…
Today’s lead image taken in 1929 of a section of the Auburn-Chicago Company showroom contains left-to-right a Stinson SM-8A Junior, a stand holding a Lycoming engine, and an L-29 Cord outfitted with the standard Cabriolet coachwork. E.L. Cord acquired a sixty percent interest in the Stinson Aircraft Company late in 1929. The enlargeable full-sized version of…
Saturday’s feature image contains an early-1950s view of South Atlantic Boulevard where it crosses the Santa Ana Freeway in the Boyle Heights neighborhood south of Los Angeles. Construction of the majority of the Freeway (I-5) which replaced earlier roads began in 1947 and was completed in 1956. . The vehicles in this picture date from 1930…
It has been said that “necessity is the mother of invention” and this pair of photos dated March 1, 1938, show a very innovative conversion of a Dodge Brothers four-cylinder chassis and drivetrain dating between 1915 to ’26 into a mechanical hay rake proves that the adage can be it true. To construct this rig…
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