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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…
Number fifty-five of the Kodachrome Image Series begins with one of the most attractive and iconic of all American cars produced during the fifties. Combined with styling that was popular with the public, the superb layout of the billboard, and the “See The USA In Your Chevrolet” advertising jingle, the sales campaign was a big winner in…
Number fifty-four of the Kodachrome Image Series begins with one of the attractive Chevrolet models produced in the mid-fifties in the lead photo. The hue of the pastel-colored lower body section is not as pink in actuality, and the roof panel was painted if memory serves correctly in a pleasing shade of grey. As is the usual…
For something a bit different for number fifty-three of the Kodachrome Image Series, this edition contains photos taken by the Photographic Departments of Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler. Each automaker has its own indoor studios and the lead image by GM Photographic and one below by the Ford Motor Company Photographic and Film Department were taken in…
Number fifty-two of the Kodachrome Image Series begins by noting that today the series is a year old and contains 260 images, all viewable by following the link below. The popular feature is planned to run for the foreseeable future providing that enough photographs continue to be available. Thanks go out to all of the readers…
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