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Today’s feature photos all originate from the City of Tampa, Florida, and were taken between the years of 1936 to ’53. The lead image and the picture below were both taken at Boyd’s Sunoco service station in January of 1936. The owner of the filling station apparently also operated Boyd’s “Free Zoo” and used his animals for…
The Northgate Plaza, located just outside the City of Rochester, New York, on Dewey Avenue in the town of Greece was constructed on farmland by Emil Muller a shopping plaza developer, it opened for business in 1953. At that time Muller had already built about twenty other plazas in the US. The vast majority of the…
The roads and streets in the City of Boston, Massachusetts are laid out in a most haphazard pattern in various areas that confuses visiting drivers and even some area residents; the streets have long been plagued by traffic jams. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1860: “We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse…
Filling station grand opening days back in the period usually included support and signage for the new operator of an establishment from the oil company that owned, built and leased the facility. Today’s lead image from the Phillips Petroleum Archives contains a view of a grand opening day that took place in 1953 in Tampa, Florida, in…
W.T. Cooper’s Used Car sales lot was located in an unknown location in Tampa, Florida, when this photo was taken in 1952. The facility appears to look like many other used car lots of the period that usually have proper signage, a small office building, a few spot lamps and strings of incandescent light bulbs…
Camp Brownwood, named after a small city located in the center of the state of Texas was located about 140-miles southwest of Fort Worth. Today’s feature image taken in October 1940 contains hundreds of cars and trucks dating back to the late-1920s in a parking lot for thirty-five hundred workers at the two-thousand-acre site. The workmen…
This installment is the last post in the series covering the Titus Motor Company and the Titus Manufacturing Company. Today we end up with the lead image of the service department above and an overall view of the building below. The Motor Company opened in 1938, and the lead photo contains a 1939 Mercury sedan in the…
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