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For the last installment of the General Motors Assembly Line Images series this post begins with two photos of Oldsmobile, Buick, and Pontiac cars on a unidentified assembly line during the 1959 model year. The lead photo contains a pair of Buicks and a Pontiac being run on the test “rolls” at the end of…
Stanford University, founded in 1885 is one of the premier colleges in the US, it is located in Stanford, CA, forty miles southeast of the city of San Francisco. The automobiles pictured in this post were owned by students at the College in the 1920s and ’30s and are the oldest vehicles in a series…
We start out today with a late-1930s image of Row Motor Sales, an Oldsmobile dealer located at sixty-six Sheldon Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Research has turned up that the sales agency was in business as early as 1931 at 1121 Hall Street in the City. The latest reference to be found was from 1959…
Editors Note: We will be taking the Fourth of July holiday weekend off and will return again on Monday morning July 8, 2019 with a new feature. We hope that all of our readers have an enjoyable weekend. Today’s feature images of Wade Ford date to September 26, 1963, and contain the Dealership buildings and…
Construction of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Complex began in 1917 and when finally completed 1928 it was the largest factory in the world. Henry Ford and Company had built a state of the art facility that not only manufactured cars and trucks but also processed the majority of the raw materials necessary to…
We certainly hope your Monday morning commute is smoother than what is depicted this circa-1970 press or municipality highway department photograph. Without a police officer directing drivers through this rush hour scene, it appears as if the traffic flow was very close to becoming a gridlock at this intersection. Share with us what you find…
Almost sixty-three years ago on July 1, 1956, a Long Island Daily Press photographer took this image of the parking lot at the Hempstead Lake State Park. The facility is located thirty miles east of New York City in southern Long Island. The vehicles in this view date from the late-1940s to the mid-1950s. Share…
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