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This unique image was taken with a camera equipped with a telephoto or long-focus lens in the “Big Apple,” looking down 42nd Street with the marquee of the Commodore Hotel visible (below) in the top-center of the expandable photo. The New York City landmark located at 109 East 42nd across the street from Grand Central Station opened in…
Updated: In response to the comments to New Year’s post asking for more early car coverage we are starting out the week with a feature including interesting photos and information from issues of “The Motor,” The Automobile,” and “Auto Topics” magazines published early in 1910. The lead image shows an attractive automobile with huge acetylene gas…
Thanks to reader Richard Laible, who sent in the images featured today we now know some of the background information about the construction of the six Packard Pan American show cars coachwork and the coachbuilder. A video at the end of this post features the new 1953 Packard Carribbean convertible, the luxury production car that followed…
This week’s Kodachrome feature begins with an image taken in the early 1950s at one of the entrances to the Sahara Hotel and Casino. The facility, the sixth one built on the “Strip” in Las Vegas opened for business in 1952. The pair of Cadillacs parked side by side in the photo shows the contrast…
This colorful late-1950s parking lot view contains for the most part vehicles painted in pastel colors popular in the 1950s and early-1960s. The vast majority of the automobiles are average everyday cars, and one appears to have a custom grille; in the mix are a handful of luxury vehicles. The appearance of the vegetation on…
Today’s feature images contain three restaurants with parking areas in front of the facilities located in the State of North Carolina. The colorful lead postcard photo contains the Pine Acres Restaurant. The eatery was next to the Pine Acres Hotel in Laurinburg. The facility that does not appear to have survived and was established in southeastern North Carolina,…
First off the Editor would like to wish all of our readers and friends around the world a happy and healthy New Year. Today is also the eighth anniversary of The Old Motor as the website heads into its ninth year of publication. Traditionally the beginning of the New Year is also the time when an…
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