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We return to the “Images from the River Rouge” series today with a mixed set of photos of assembly lines and the Ford tire manufacturing plant at the Ford Plant located in Dearborn, MI. The lead image is a view of the chassis assembly line at the River Rouge Plant taken late in 1935 of…
Many of the images in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America photo collection such as this pre-war picture, with the passage of time have lost their background information. We are hopeful that our readers can identify the location of this parking lot based on the appearance of the industrial structures in…
We return to the Images from the River Rouge series today with a mixed set of photos of vehicles and the Soybean Processing plant at the Ford factory located in Dearborn, MI. The lead photo contains the twenty-ninth millionth Ford car built at the end of the production line on April 29, 1941. The vehicle,…
For the duration of World War II, no new automobiles other than for military use were manufactured and the public had to make do with Pre-War cars until the hostilities ended. This scene photographed in Austin, Texas in 1945 contains vehicles, some of which are about fifteen years old and date back to the early-1930s…
Today’s featured image, a postcard photo of the S.S. Palo Alto was taken in the late-1940s at Sea Cliff State Park Beach located at Aptos, California. The Ship, an oil tanker made of steel-reinforced concrete was built in Oakland in 1919 for the US Navy and never used. The Sea Cliff Amusement Company purchased boat…
Instead of an image of a complete car for today’s Kodachrome feature we chose this photo to give our knowledgable readers a chance to identify a car by using only a picture of its interior. We will mention this however, there is one clue in plain site that can be used to determine the automaker…
One constant in the greater Los Angeles area is traffic, and this set of photos taken circa-1930 show that it was not just a post-World War II problem although it did get worse as time went by. The lead image and the enlargeable version below both contain heavy traffic at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard…
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