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Mobster “Bugsy” Siegel constructed the Flamingo Hotel and Casino “The West’s Greatest Resort Hotel” on the Las Vegas Strip and opened it for business on December 26, 1946. Today we fast forward about ten years to this view that was taken in the mid-to-late 1950s of the complex and it includes the famous “Champagne Tower”…
Today’s featured images contain the Oliver Motor Co. located at 2101 Main St. in Columbia, South Carolina. The 1955 or ’56 Plymouth sedan on the far right of the lead photo has a license plate dating to 1958, so we assume that was the year the photo was taken. In addition to selling Chrysler Products…
We have been working our way backward time-wise with the set photos of the Deal and Davie car dealership located in Susanville, CA. We finish off the series with today’s photos, which date back to 1936 when the only significant visual difference between then and the post-war times is a different Shell service center building….
We have posted a number of interesting images of vehicles being shipped by barge on rivers in the past, although the two photos below taken close to ten years apart, show the dramatic changes in automobile styling in that short period. The source identifies the lead photo as having been taken at St. Louis, MO,…
The lead image and the enlargement of it below show what appears to be a high-performance promotional event underway Cooks Chrysler Plymouth. If you look closely a racing car is visible inside the showroom just to the right of the front doors, and this event appears to be similar in scope to one we covered…
Unique tow and service trucks owned by garages and dealerships have long served as rolling billboards for the establishments that own them, although this particular rig rates near the all time top of the list of eye-catching tow trucks. It served in this capacity for the Bynum-Stevens Motor Co., a Pontiac Dealer located in Murfreesboro,…
Today we return to Deal and Davie Oldsmobile-Cadillac-GMC located at at 1107 Main St. in Susanville, CA, with another set of images taken in 1952. Recently we shared photos of a 1952 Cadillac Coupe in the dealership’s showroom and parts department. The series of three buildings visible in these photos have survived. We will return…
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