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One constant in the greater Los Angeles area is traffic, and this set of photos taken circa-1930 show that it was not just a post-World War II problem although it did get worse as time went by. The lead image and the enlargeable version below both contain heavy traffic at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard…
Today’s four featured offbeat but interesting gasoline station photos begin with a James Blair Murdoch newspaper advertisement photograph taken on March 13, 1939, in the Milwaukee, WI metropolitan area. The backdrop in the picture is a Streamline Moderne Standard Oil Company filling station building with bold Art Deco lettering. Even though the gasoline selling for…
This Friday the feature Kodachrome image is identified by the source as a view of a harborside thoroughfare in San Diego, California, filled with early-to-mid-1950s automobiles. We see a blue sky, palm trees, short sleeve shirts and a wide array of mostly pastel-colored cars to check out. On the other side of the coin, since…
We apologize once again for a late and short post today due to the lingering effects of power, phone and internet outages here in Vermont caused by a wet and heavy snowstorm that fell earlier in the week. Today’s feature circa-1958 image contains a mix of late-1930s to late-1950s automobiles and trucks on an unknown section…
Saturday’s feature image contains an early-1950s view of South Atlantic Boulevard where it crosses the Santa Ana Freeway in the Boyle Heights neighborhood south of Los Angeles. Construction of the majority of the Freeway (I-5) which replaced earlier roads began in 1947 and was completed in 1956. . The vehicles in this picture date from 1930…
Race Street (US 30) appears to be an appropriate name for this Philadelphia thoroughfare which joined the entrance to the Delaware River Bridge in the foreground of the photo. According to the source, the image was taken on September 7, 1950. The structure was later renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1955. The entrance was also…
Today’s photo of the Albany Public Market lot in front of the Lyon Block Building on the far-left was taken at some point of World War II years between 1942 to ’45 when fuel was rationed. The automobile closest to the camera appears to be a 1941 Ford convertible, and a close look at the…
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