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Today’s feature photos all originate from the City of Tampa, Florida, and were taken between the years of 1936 to ’53. The lead image and the picture below were both taken at Boyd’s Sunoco service station in January of 1936. The owner of the filling station apparently also operated Boyd’s “Free Zoo” and used his animals for…
The Northgate Plaza, located just outside the City of Rochester, New York, on Dewey Avenue in the town of Greece was constructed on farmland by Emil Muller a shopping plaza developer, it opened for business in 1953. At that time Muller had already built about twenty other plazas in the US. The vast majority of the…
The roads and streets in the City of Boston, Massachusetts are laid out in a most haphazard pattern in various areas that confuses visiting drivers and even some area residents; the streets have long been plagued by traffic jams. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1860: “We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse…
Mueller-Harkins Buick was a family owned dealership which began operations during 1916 in Tacoma, Washington. Today’s lead image was taken on June 6, 1951, in the sales agency’s new, large and well-equipped sales and service building. The business was located at 445 Saint Helens Avenue in Tacoma, Washington, in an ultramodern facility that began operations…
Number One-Hundred and Fifty-Seven of the Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with an image of an early Corvette and its driver heading down a road in California. This picture appears to have been taken by a professional photographer, could this be a General Motors Photographic marketing photo, for some type of a production, or was…
Filling station grand opening days back in the period usually included support and signage for the new operator of an establishment from the oil company that owned, built and leased the facility. Today’s lead image from the Phillips Petroleum Archives contains a view of a grand opening day that took place in 1953 in Tampa, Florida, in…
The Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) was constructed between 1949 to ’59 and pre-dated the Interstate Highway System, it follows the Schuylkill river for most of its run. It begins at the King of Prussia exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike located northwest of Philadelphia and continues on to the south side of the City and crosses over the Delaware…
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