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Filling station grand opening days back in the period usually included support and signage for the new operator of an establishment from the oil company that owned, built and leased the facility. Today’s lead image from the Phillips Petroleum Archives contains a view of a grand opening day that took place in 1953 in Tampa, Florida, in…
The West Coast Longshore Workers Strike, one of a series of labor strikes in the US in the early to late-1930s was a long and bloody battle between the strikers, police, and authorities. It was initiated on May 9, 1934, by disgruntled dock workers in San Francisco, was centered there and quickly expanded to encompass the…
“The Raymond,” a resort hotel located on Bacon Hill in South Pasadena, California, opened for the first time in June of 1886. The opulent and palatial facility soon became the destination for wealthy and famous tourists visiting the area. After an ember from a chimney landed on the wooden-shingled roof, the structure caught fire and…
Today’s feature image taken in 1933 contains a 1930 Model “A” Sport Coupe in the Granada Garage, located at 452 South Western Avenue in Wilshire Center just west of Los Angeles. Photos like this were, and still are today taken by insurance companies to document the damage sustained in an accident. It appears the Garage was a…
The B.F. Goodrich and Firestone tire companies began opening tire stores with combined service and lubrication facilities in large cities around the country in the late-1920s. Goodrich opened a number of new outlets in the Los Angeles, California area in the early-to-mid-1930s probably in an effort to retain its market share during the Great Depression. These…
Today’s Portland, Oregon, street scene photo was taken for the Public Works Department in the City on West Burnside Street at SW 5th Avenue before construction began to modernize the thoroughfare. This intersection is located five blocks west of Waterside Park on the Willamette River were West Burnside meets the Burnside Bridge that continues on to the…
Number One-Hundred and Twenty-Seven of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a colorful photo possibly taken on an Easter Sunday of an attractive young woman with a bright red coat and a flower in her hair. She is posing with a Buick sedan, and a Plymouth is behind it. As is the usual practice in this series,…
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