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Number One-Hundred and Forty-Nine of the Kodachrome Car Photos Series begins this week with an image of a late-1940s or early-1950s Buick convertible. The proud owner posing with appears to like it and who wouldn’t with the blue over red color combination. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell us the year,…
Today’s street scene image of an unidentified intersection in Atlanta, Georgia, is a press photo that documented traffic congestion in the City. Surrounding this intersection are a number of businesses that dealt with servicing vehicles, on the far-left is a Standard Oil filling station, a General Tire shop and an Auto Loan business. On the right-hand…
Today’s feature image by Floyd E. Jillson for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper was published on December 12, 1963. The picture contains the Atlanta, Georgia, skyline, new General Motors 1964 automobiles on train cars, and the Southeast Expressway. The new cars were built at the General Motors Lakewood Heights Assembly Plant that was located about five…
Staley’s first restaurant pictured above with “Curb Service” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was a constructed in 1937 in conjunction with a local oil company. In addition to food, Shell gasoline and oil products were sold at the restaurant at this location. The lead image shows a couple in a Plymouth two-door hardtop at Staley’s second restaurant which…
The Rotary Club, first formed in 1905, is a humanitarian organization that works to spread peace and goodwill around the world; in 1922 the club name was changed to the Rotary International. In 1912 the Rotary National Convention was held in Duluth, Minnesota, and today’s feature image contains club members taking a motor tour around…
Today’s feature image was taken in Weatherford, Texas, during a parade in the City in 1953. The municipality is located about thirty miles west of Fort Worth. The buntings hanging from the light-colored building on the far-left corner apparently indicate that the parade may have been held on the Fourth of July. A Gulf Oil Company…
We are sorry that the photos for Number One-Hundred and Forty-Eight of the Kodachrome Car Photos Series today are not as good as what is usually posted here on Fridays. The continued internet outage due to the high winds that passed through the area have left our photo archives temporarily inaccessible. This was the best that could…
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