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A similar view of the Bayshore Freeway, now known as Route 101 was posted here last year, and we return to the area with this recently found image. This photograph is dated June 17, 1959, and identified by the USC Archives as a view north towards “Hospital Curve” and the pedestrian bridge above it. San Francisco General Hospital is…
Today’s street scene image was taken on May 5, 1960, looking west on S.E. 13th Avenue, at its intersection with Tacoma Street in Portland, Oregon. In the scene on the left is a Vincis Chevron station selling an early mix of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) and gasoline which has been found to pollute water supplies;…
For today’s post, we travel to Detroit, Michigan for a mid-1950s views of a Hamburger and Barbecue Chicken restaurant and a modern shopping plaza. This Art Moderne styled eatery is diner-sized and has a long oval-shaped window that was popular with this form of building the late thirties, forties and early fifties. Six hamburgers for…
This is a follow-up article with new information to add to last Monday’s July 31, 2017, post: “Bob Burman and the Blitzen Benz at Brighton Beach.” The earlier report contains photos of the first occasion where “Blitzen I” and “Blitzen II” were together at a race meet according to a Daimler Company historical accounting of the six 200…
Number One-Hundred and Sixteen of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photo of a women, her dog, and a late-1930s Ford sedan. At first glance, mostly due to her look and hat, she appears to resemble the actress Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film, “The Wizard…
The Alaskan Way is a thoroughfare in the City of Seattle, Washington, located on the waterfront of Elliott Bay: it travels in a northwesterly direction from downtown and along the water to the Belltown neighborhood. It was originally constructed by the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway in the years before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 consumed it….
This Parking Lot Series photo is dated 1960, and taken 57-years ago during a restoration of the cast iron dome and while an addition was built on the front of the US Capitol the building. Back in the period when this image was shot, and well before modern day measures were taken to increase security at…
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