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Palestine, Texas was founded in 1846 by the Texas State Legislature, it is located one-hundred and twelve miles southeast of Dallas on the eastern side of the Lone Star State. The historic railroad City is the county seat of Anderson County. This photo containing parked cars on a wide street in Palestine was taken in…
Today’s four featured offbeat but interesting gasoline station photos begin with a James Blair Murdoch newspaper advertisement photograph taken on March 13, 1939, in the Milwaukee, WI metropolitan area. The backdrop in the picture is a Streamline Moderne Standard Oil Company filling station building with bold Art Deco lettering. Even though the gasoline selling for…
The 1950s was a decade of unprecedented economic growth and during that period the average American’s income grew by thirty percent. This set of images taken in Hawaii during 1958 show the result of the economic expansion which also happened there at the same time. A year later the US territory officially became the fiftieth…
George “Joie” Chitwood started his career behind the wheel in the mid-thirties racing sprint cars in the midwest. The Driver won the AAA Sprint Car Championship in 1939 and ’40 and the CRSA (Central State Racing Association based in Sacramento, CA) Championship in 1942. Chitwood also competed in the Indianapolis 500 seven times between 1940…
So many of the photos that end up in the “Four Fun Friday Kodachrome Car Photographs” series were taken by the owners of the vehicle at the time of a special occasion, vacation, date, wedding, honeymoon or after a purchasing the car or truck. Their partner, mother or family members were usually around at the…
Today’s featured image is a view of parked cars near the Capitol Theatre located in Salt Lake City, Utah at 50 W 200 S. The Theatre opened in 1913 and by the time this photo was taken a marque and impressive neon-lit signage including an arch over the street had been added. The picture was…
Its interesting to see how things had changed at the time this photo was taken in the mid-1930s after Prohibition which began in 1920, ended on December 5, 1933. At this roadside drive-in restaurant, a carhop served Magnolia Beer (note the sign at the far end of the building) that was kept in an attractive…
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