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Today’s feature image takes us to Philadelphia, PA, for a circa 1950 overhead view of automobiles on a traffic circle surrounding a park. The photo was taken shortly after this new roadway was opened, as there are virtually no oil stains to be seen on the center of the three lanes and the white stripes are bright…
Today’s feature image takes us to Austin, Texas for a 1946 view of automobiles on Congress Street stopped at a traffic light. Apparently, the photo was taken early in the year when all of the Nation’s automakers were struggling to get the production lines going again, as all of the cars in the view appear…
Greg Brotherton, a Washington State roadster racer directed a very enjoyable and unique thirty-minute documentary film about an old time midget racer that we will share with you this upcoming Saturday. Today’s feature contains a very interesting short 2:18 video, “No Race Track There” of Hot Rod Races that Brotherton attended in 1948 which were held in Sultan,…
Today’s feature contains three circa 1905 to ’06 images that all relate to garages in some way. The first photo was taken in front of the Carlton Garage and Repair Co. Research in period trade magazines has resulted in finding that the firm was located in the Prospect Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, at the…
It is not so much the case today, but it has been said in the past that “Things change slowly in the South.” It is also known that a number of Rolls-Royce owners, who bought their cars new in the period between the teens to the thirties, would on occasion keep it for decades. That apparently…
Number One-Hundred and Six of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photograph showing styling trends of period automobiles, haircuts, and house trailers. A young man with a flattop hairdo is posing in a Corvette, one of a pair of Chevrolet’s popular top-of-the-line offerings from the late-1950s. On the far-right of the image is one of…
Today’s feature contains a pair of videos of short films produced for the Public Relations Department of the Tucker Corporation. Part I of Tucker “The Man and the Car” tells of his early life experiences and his connections with automobiles. The knowledge Tucker learned earlier led up to him designing the 1936 Tucker military “Combat Car,”…
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