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H.S. “Dick” Hickman, Chief of Police in Colorado City, Texas, poses at City Hall in the 1930s with moonshine, guns, and a Chevrolet coupe after an arrest. For effect, the moonshine is displayed in its canning jars on and around the car, and the ground along with two pistols seized during the bust on the…
In 2017, Atlanta, Georgia was ranked as having the fourth-worst traffic problem in the US, and on the international level it came in as the eight-worst for the second year in a row. Today’s feature image taken circa 1967 in the southern City show that during rush hour the traffic problem on Interstates 75 and 85…
Today’s feature is the Cadillac Motor Car Division of General Motors Chicago “Factory Branch” dealership located at 2250 South Michigan Avenue. Judging by the images, it appears that the automaker also had no frills factory branches in some of the other principal cities of the country as was common in earlier times. The newest Cadillac’s on…
Number One-Hundred and Sixty-Two of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of a gentleman on a trip to Cape Cod, located in eastern Massachusetts with a 1960s Pontiac station wagon. It appears his significant other took this photo on the Cape at a Gulf Service Station where he filled up…
Today’s installment of the “Gasoline Station Series” takes us to the Corner of Bigelow Boulevard and Bloomfield Bridge on July 10, 1921, for a view of this substantial Gulf Oil Company filling station. Bloomfield is a neighborhood in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, located three miles north of the downtown area. The building has not survived….
The Puyallup Motor Company was located at 202 Pioneer Avenue East and Second Street in Puyallup, Washington. The City is located ten miles southeast of Tacoma, the home of a number of automotive business’ we have covered recently. According to the book “Puyallup a Pioneer Paradise,” the Motor Company celebrated its grand opening in October of 1946….
Newton Corner is one of several villages located around the suburban City of Newton, Massachusetts. The community is sited about seven miles west of the City of Boston, south of the City of Watertown, and the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). Today’s feature image dated is March 7, 1946 by the source, and contains the Pearl Court…
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