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It’s snowing here again this morning, and the temperature is forecast to be eight-degrees tonight and minus-two tomorrow evening, so its an excellent time to take a look at vintage winter motorsports on ice. This scene containing four men posing with an ice racing boat was photographed in 1909 on a lake located in Otsego…
Today’s featured image was taken in Lower North Philadelphia, PA, looking northward from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station overpass. The scene in the photo is located at the intersection of North Broad St. (PA 611) and Indiana Ave.; it contains “new traffic lanes” and Philadelphia Police Traffic Officers assisting motorists get acquainted with the extra (fourth)…
We usually do not post images of automobiles involved in accidents; however, since these vehicles appear to have been left behind by the owners after parking them and hopefully they were not harmed, we decided to make an exception. Apparently the building behind the cars either exploded or collapsed. The fact that the Ford four-door…
The early post-WWII days for automobile dealers who handled new automobiles was a seller’s market due to the public’s pent up demand for a new car to replace older and tired pre-war vehicles. It was also a time when many new auto sales and service buildings were constructed, and more aged facilities were updated and…
To finish out the week today, we have a human interest image dated to September 26, 1947, by the source. In the photo Minneapolis Traffic Patrolman, Ralph Stirratt, appears to be holding a ball while directing traffic at the intersection of Seventh Street and Marquette Avenue. His Harley-Davidson Servi-car is parked next to the traffic…
Everyone loves a parade, and in the lead image, it appears that all of these women also liked to sing. The group of four women in the back of this bright yellow convertible a local car dealer may have supplied apparently were a part of a pep rally near a women’s school. Can any of…
Philadelphia is known as the “City of Brotherly Love” and was named by William Penn, who combined two Greek words Philos (love) and Adelphos (brother). The City’s grid much like those of Boston, and New York City was laid out in 1682 by Penn’s surveyor Thomas Holme. What worked well for the horse and buggy…
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