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Carpenter’s Sandwich drive in restaurant located at 6285 West Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles, CA, certainly was a popular place back in time. The attention-getting-octagonal-shaped wood frame building is topped by a neon sign, with four levels of conventional signage below it. The ground level walls and counter are decorated with ceramic…
The black Oldsmobile hardtop on top of the platform at Grande Auto’s used car sales lot was getting all of the attention on the day the lead image was taken. To add a little color into the front row the management flanked it with a yellow on white compact car and a pink or salmon…
Today we return to the New York City Flushing section of the Borough of Queens for a view of the Shea Stadium parking lot while filed to capacity with 1960s to ’70s cars. Recent coverage here included an image of the Van Wyck Expressway taken on the morning of November 30, 1972, after the Long…
1932 was one of the toughest years of the Great Depression. New automobile sales had slowed to a mere trickle of the yearly sales figures established in the late-1920s. At the same time, a glut of leftover used cars from the same period threatened the sale of new models. At the same time, there was…
In 1952 “Life”magazine photographer Loomis Dean conducted an impressive photo shoot in Los Angeles for an article in the publication about Walter Nilsson’s unique “Uno-Wheel.” Occasionally one of the photos will surface today and the most famous of all is the shot of Nilsson (below) with a cigarette dangling from his mouth while at the…
It seems to be common for used car dealer’s to have some type of a promotion or “special deal” going on as a way to get you on the lot and try to sell you a car. The Auto Mart, sited at an unknown location in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, apparently was not…
To finish out the week here we have a pair of unique images of high-performance early automobiles parked on a street in different locations. The lead photo contains an impressive American Underslung “Traveler” on the left and a large and powerful Thomas-Flyer “6-70” roadster or “speedster” parked out in front of the Upham Gas Co….
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