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The lead photo of a salesman pointing out features of an “Ercoupe” airplane to a customer in the showroom with a Packard behind it at the Packard Company of Minneapolis caught our attention due to the good fortune of being able to have driven and…err fly one of each. The 1948 Packard as pictured (below)…
This photo of automobiles caught in a traffic snarl on the Grand Central Parkway is dated to July 23, 1952, by the Queens Library Archives. The location of this “Long Island Daily Press” image is identified as being near where the Van Wyck Expressway and the Parkway merge in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the…
Here are a couple of fun photos to end up the week. The images were taken at Monument Square located in Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 28, 1949. The small economy car is an Austin Seven manufactured in the UK by the Austin Motor Company Limited between the years of 1922 to ’39. It is…
Today’s lead image contains a tastefully executed mild 1950s “California Custom” convertible. The only visible modifications are the addition of a custom grille, windshield-mounted spotlight, different hubcaps and the plastic center of the hood badge has been omitted. It may have been lowered all around, although it at least appears to have a forward rake….
We are back in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area once again today with a set of racing-related images taken by photographer Roman B.J. Kwasniewski in 1920 next to a park. The Model “T” Ford-based specials apparently were constructed by the young men sitting in them and are fitted with attractive speedster bodies and accessories built by…
The world famous “Sunset Strip” is a one and a half-mile section of Sunset Boulevard located in West Hollywood, California. The roadway extends west from the border of West Hollywood and Los Angeles to Beverly Hills. Sunset Boulevard is a twenty-two-mile-long thoroughfare that travels west from the Little Armenia neighborhood located near the Hollywood Palladium…
Today’s post-World War II feature images taken in New London and Ridgefield, Connecticut contain street views in each community. The lead image and the expandable version of it (below) is a view looking down State Street at a traffic circle located in the City of New London, a historic seaport located at the mouth of…
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