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Recently we posted a photo of a Long Beach California Fire Chief posing with his Graham-Paige phaeton “Fire Car.” Thanks to reader Michael E. Keller for making us aware of the source of the image today’s post contains more pictures of the car, a second Graham-Paige Model 629 with LeBaron coachwork, and a late-1920s Cadillac…
In light of the recently announced closures of General Motors passenger car assembly plants at Lordstown, Ohio, and Hamtramck, Michigan we decided to take a look at two assembly plants GM has closed in the past. The new Chevrolet plant at Van Nuys, CA, located 22-miles northwest of Los Angeles and the GM plant in…
Today’s Route 66 feature images give a glimpse of travel during the mid-1920s and the late-1940s in cities on the Roadway that begins in Chicago and ends in Los Angeles during before the Interstate Highways where constructed. The lead image and the expandable sections of it (below) show a view of traffic on Southwest Boulevard…
Updated: This interesting image was taken in front of J.W. Seery’s Garage located in Topeka, Kansas. The Hupmobile Model 20 roadster parked next to the men is a small economy car produced between 1909 to ’12 by the Hupp Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. The photo courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society has been…
Today’s colorful lead image filled with fifties cars appears to have been taken in high-class shopping district in a neighborhood of Los Angeles area. A clue in the photo that may be used to identify the exact location is the see-through placards with stars that are attached to every street light pole. As is the practice in…
Its that time of the year again here in Vermont where The Old Motor is located to enjoy “Vermont’s Fifth Season” unofficially named “Mud Season” by the State’s residents, when all of the many well cared for “dirt roads” can turn into a sea of gumbo. It is that part of the year when all of…
Photos printed on postcards of the main street or tourist attractions taken in cities, towns, and villages have long been a means for photographers or postcard companies to generate income. In earlier times some of the photos originated from glass plate negatives or on film taken with high-quality large format cameras that are capable of…
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