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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…
Today’s lead image was taken for use in a television ad by WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, TX, for Pleasant Grove Chrysler-Plymouth-Valiant, located on the southeast side of Dallas TX. The photo of the dealership contains the new 1962 model year cars in stock. Business must have been brisk at Pleasant Grove because sign lettering on…
Today’s lead image was taken on May 21, 1951 of Metropolitan Chevrolet’s newly opened used car sale lot located at Fourth Street and Capitol Avenue in Springfield, Illinois. It went into operation a year after the post–World War II economic expansion began in 1950 in response to the record new car sales of five-hundred units…
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” is the unofficial US Mail Creed – but in this case, we think weight and bulk should be added to the saying. This photo was taken in Brigham City, Utah in 1943 of Parley…
Most new cars are delivered by truck or rail, although in the center of the US, the home of largest rivers in the country, auto-shipment by a barge used to be fairly common. This set of photos contains new cars and trucks being loaded and unloaded and shipped on a barge near Cincinnati, Ohio on…
Before the advent of the Interstate Highway System, Route 66 was one of the main east-to-west roadways. It was officially established late in 1926 and route signs were put in place in 1927. The highway is also known as the “Mother Road” began in Chicago, IL, and ended 2448 miles west in Santa Monica, CA….
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