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Before the automobile became fairly common, stationary internal combustion engines needed to be moved to the location where power was needed to run machinery. With a motor vehicle it was only a matter of driving one to the spot where it was needed, positioning it, jacking it up and installing a flat belt used to…
Number One-Hundred and Forty-Six of the Kodachrome Car Images Series begins this week with an image apparently taken by the father of this family and their automobiles. A daughter is with a blue Corvette minus a license plate, two sons are posing with a Chevrolet two-door hardtop, and mom is standing next to a Plymouth or Dodge….
Today’s feature images taken in 1931 contain views of a stand-alone Pennzoil “One Stop” lubrication service located on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and North Alexandria Avenue, northeast of the center of Hollywood, California. The set of staged promotional photos apparently show a garage set up with a new concept the Oil Company was trying at…
For something a bit different from our typical daily coverage today’s feature image contains two Portland, Oregon, Fire Department Vehicles. The chemical and hose truck is a 1913 Pope-Hartford unit based on a heavy duty six-wheel equipment chassis with double chain drive powered by a 50-h.p. four-cylinder engine. The Company also produced lighter duty four-wheel shaft-driven 50-h.p. fire…
Today’s feature image taken by a Detroit News photographer in the early-1950s contains two parking lots and traffic on 1st Street between them in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The large building visible on the right below was the home of the Michigan Typesetting Co. The building with an exterior fire escape on the left side of 1st…
Today’s feature images were taken for entertainment pieces and published in the “San Antonio Light” newspaper (1881 to 1992). The lead image contains an early Model “A” Ford roadster which was driven by Duke Borden in a Jalopy Derby road race held in January of 1941. Borden and his Ford are shown airborne after cresting a…
Earlier in the week a view down Central Avenue at the intersection of Grand Avenue in West Duluth, Minnesota was featured and today marks a return to the area. This image contains a look down Grand, a major artery in the City. On the left is the Standard Oil Station seen in the earlier image…
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