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Today’s lead image contains a newly-married couple about to leave their wedding reception and head out on the honeymoon in the early-1960s. This Corvette is easy to date due to a feature only used during this particular model year run. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell us the…
While searching for freeway and Interstate Highway photographs recently we came across this set of four Kodachrome images. The lead photo was taken in 1973 and the second and third pictures (below) were taken in 1972 and contain traffic headed southbound on Interstate Highway 35W. The last shot contains a traffic jam on the Hollywood…
Today’s featured images were taken on September 17, 1940, at the Lake Worth Skeet and Gun Club and the occasion may have been the introduction of the new 1941 Plymouth or a local new car show. The City of Lake Worth, TX, is located about eight miles northwest of the City of Fort Worth. All…
The lead image in today’s Parking Lot Series contains the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company parking facility at a train station on the south side of the Monongahela River. On the right-hand side of the image dated December 2, 1965, by the source is the Smithfield Street Bridge and following it the Liberty Bridge…
Planters Peanuts were first processed and sold in 1906 at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by a partnership of Amedeo Obici an immigrant from Italy and Mario Peruzzi. The later had developed a process to remove the peanut shells followed by roasting and blanching the nuts to lighten the color. The headquarters of the business, an office building…
In an effort to help its dealers suffering from the lingering effects of the Great Depression, the Ford Motor Company initiated a new “Renewed and Guaranteed” sales program in March of 1936 to assist its dealers with selling their used car inventory. The image featured here today shows the adoption of the sales campaign by…
Due to a website glitch that happened while editing this morning’s installment of the Friday feature we lost all of its data and photos. But “the show must go on” so four of the most popular early (2015) lead images and descriptions were chosen from the series for this week’s feature. December 11, 2015: “For…
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