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The City of Minneapolis began documenting salvage yards by photographing them in the 1967 to the mid-’70s period. This was about the same time as the EPA started operations to clean up environmental pollution in the industry. The lead image is a view of the sign, fence, and yard at Nate’s Auto Parts located at 1032…
For a bit of a change of pace today, we have decided to take a break from vehicles, roadways, and street scenes to take a look at photos of roadside establishments and trade signs in the Library of Congress Collection. The pictures are from the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive; some are dated although…
For the Holidays, we thought it would be an excellent time to take a look back at photos that were the most popular on the “Kodachrome Images Series” over the last five years based on reader comments. Today is the final and last installment in this feature, which hopefully you have enjoyed. Today’s lead photograph:…
The New Year is just around the corner, and since the “Kodachrome Images” feature is five years old, we thought it would be an excellent time to take a look back at photos that were the most popular based on reader comments. Today’s lead photograph ” A Family of Five and the Dog“ was posted…
For a change of pace today we are featuring a set of Kodachrome postcard images of four automobile dealerships. The lead image contains a view of Carlisle-Porter Continental-Lincoln-Mercury-Edsel located in Clearwater, Florida. The upscale Carlisle-Porter building was designed by architect John Randal McDonald and located at 2085 Gulf-To-Bay Boulevard. Since the Edsel was only built…
Number One-Hundred and Forty-Nine of the Kodachrome Car Photos Series begins this week with an image of a late-1940s or early-1950s Buick convertible. The proud owner posing with appears to like it and who wouldn’t with the blue over red color combination. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell us the year,…
Number One-Hundred and Twenty-Eight of the Kodachrome Image Series begins early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend with a colorful photo of one of the Ford Motor Company’s popular Thunderbird two-seaters. We featured one of these early T-Bird’s recently, but today we are going to pretend the woman driving it traveled home to visit mom and dad…
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