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Today we head to the Queens Borough of New York City that is located on the western end of Long Island east of Brooklyn, one the other four Boroughs that, make up the City. The lead image and the expandable version of it (below) was taken on Continental Avenue in the Forest Hills neighborhood of…
Today’s feature image contains hundreds of cars parked in two of a number of parking lots with a capacity of twelve-hundred cars situated on Fleet Street in Toronto, Canada. Post-War, Toronto, the largest City in the country and the Capital of the Province of Ontario was suffering from inadequate parking facilities, and traffic congestion. Relief…
February 2, 1941 was the day that World Heavy Weight Champion (1919 to ’26) Jack Dempsey’s 1924 Rolls-Royce “Silver-Ghost” saloon was turned into the United States Wrecking Co. to be scrapped. The Wrecking Yard was located at 1728 Washington Avenue in Minneapolis, MN, and these images of it were taken by a staff photographer for the…
In light of the recently announced closures of General Motors passenger car assembly plants at Lordstown, Ohio, and Hamtramck, Michigan we decided to take a look at two assembly plants GM has closed in the past. The new Chevrolet plant at Van Nuys, CA, located 22-miles northwest of Los Angeles and the GM plant in…
Today’s Route 66 feature images give a glimpse of travel during the mid-1920s and the late-1940s in cities on the Roadway that begins in Chicago and ends in Los Angeles during before the Interstate Highways where constructed. The lead image and the expandable sections of it (below) show a view of traffic on Southwest Boulevard…
Photos printed on postcards of the main street or tourist attractions taken in cities, towns, and villages have long been a means for photographers or postcard companies to generate income. In earlier times some of the photos originated from glass plate negatives or on film taken with high-quality large format cameras that are capable of…
Updated: The Graham-Paige automobile was introduced in 1927 by the three Graham brothers, Joseph, Robert, and Ray. Their first involvement with motor vehicles was building truck bodies and conversion kits that would turn a Model “T” Ford into a truck in the late teens. In the early twenties, the brothers designed and began to manufacture…
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