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Today’s featured image appears to have been taken at about this time of the year in a quaint college town somewhere in the northern part of the country in the late-1940s to early-’50s. It’s not very easy to identify the vehicles covered with snow in the photograph, although the location is something to go to…
This Oklahoma newspaper photograph contains retired Texas Ranger Ben Preston of Dodge City, Kansas, with his custom roadster he “put together piece by piece to suit his own taste.” The September 11, 1938 press release with the image also states, “he never did like the way standard automobiles were built,” and this was his idea…
The City of Minneapolis began documenting salvage yards by photographing them in the 1967 to the mid-’70s period. This was about the same time as the EPA started operations to clean up environmental pollution in the industry. The lead image is a view of the sign, fence, and yard at Nate’s Auto Parts located at 1032…
Today’s featured image was taken in Lower North Philadelphia, PA, looking northward from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station overpass. The scene in the photo is located at the intersection of North Broad St. (PA 611) and Indiana Ave.; it contains “new traffic lanes” and Philadelphia Police Traffic Officers assisting motorists get acquainted with the extra (fourth)…
The early post-WWII days for automobile dealers who handled new automobiles was a seller’s market due to the public’s pent up demand for a new car to replace older and tired pre-war vehicles. It was also a time when many new auto sales and service buildings were constructed, and more aged facilities were updated and…
To finish out the week today, we have a human interest image dated to September 26, 1947, by the source. In the photo Minneapolis Traffic Patrolman, Ralph Stirratt, appears to be holding a ball while directing traffic at the intersection of Seventh Street and Marquette Avenue. His Harley-Davidson Servi-car is parked next to the traffic…
We have had a run on Firestone service centers recently, and here is yet another one photographed in July of 1946 and located at East Huron and South Division Streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The building has survived and remains as Firestone service center. Like some of the other Firestone operations we have looked at…
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