Today’s lead image apparently taken in a family’s yard in Florida during the 1960s is a study in contrasts. On the right-hand side of the photo is a full-sized Pontiac hardtop and behind it, a large-sized power boat, and on the left-hand side is a Volkswagen which in comparison looks like a dwarf. Share with us…
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Radio station mobile units or promotional cars and vans are usually covered in lettering and two-tone or bright color combinations to make them more eye-catching to the general public. The three distinctive examples shown here certainly do gain attention and date from the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. The lead image contains two female models wearing “Blue Bonnets”…
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In the 1950s stock car racing found its way from the United States to England where it quickly became a very popular spectator sport. Soon a number of quarter-mile oval tracks were built around the UK. You will find the feature, an early-1960s film on video “Look at Life – Smashing Trough,” interesting, informative, and…
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Today’s lead image is dated by the source to September of 1951 and contains a view of the “Hays Cross Roads” near Pittsburgh, PA. Perhaps the most interesting automobile in this scene is the 1936 Ford roadster on the far-right hand side of the lead photo and visible in the enlargeable photo (below). From outward appearances,…
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Today’s feature image is an interesting early-1960s exercise in time-exposure photography. The picture captures the movement of automobile head and taillights in the parking lot at the northern side of the Westgate Shopping Center located in Asheville, North Carolina. The Shopping Center has survived and is between Cliff Street and the Westgate Parkway next to the French…
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By the late twenties, Henry Ford was a captain of industry who controlled all of his manufacturing operations around the world and ruled them with an iron fist. He also established a supply chain that fed most of the raw materials necessary for building cars, trucks, and airplanes as possible to his numerous factory operations. In…
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Image going back in time about sixty-five years ago and spending a long weekend touring the scenic Napa Valley while viewing the vineyards and visiting the wineries in Northern California with this Buick convertible; wouldn’t that be an exceptional outing? Sorry to disrupt your vision of such an enjoyable adventure, but do tell us all about…
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