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Today’s street scene image was taken on May 5, 1960, looking west on S.E. 13th Avenue, at its intersection with Tacoma Street in Portland, Oregon. In the scene on the left is a Vincis Chevron station selling an early mix of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) and gasoline which has been found to pollute water supplies;…
Number One-Hundred and Sixteen of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photo of a women, her dog, and a late-1930s Ford sedan. At first glance, mostly due to her look and hat, she appears to resemble the actress Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film, “The Wizard…
The Alaskan Way is a thoroughfare in the City of Seattle, Washington, located on the waterfront of Elliott Bay: it travels in a northwesterly direction from downtown and along the water to the Belltown neighborhood. It was originally constructed by the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway in the years before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 consumed it….
We are not certain of the exact date of today’s feature photo taken in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but it is feasible that it was on August 14, 1945, the day that Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies, which effectively meant that World War II was over. Another possibility is…
Today’s feature image takes us to Philadelphia, PA, for a circa 1950 overhead view of automobiles on a traffic circle surrounding a park. The photo was taken shortly after this new roadway was opened, as there are virtually no oil stains to be seen on the center of the three lanes and the white stripes are bright…
Today’s photograph taken in 1955 shows a view of a parking lot located across the street from the State House in Providence, Rhode Island. The building on the far-upper-left-hand-side of the image is identified as St. Patrick’s Church. Considerable redevelopment has occurred in the area, and the church building has since been taken down. The…
Today we have a pair of interesting street scenes, the first of which was taken from high above this busy intersection in Chicago during the late-1930s. Heavy one-way traffic on both thoroughfares has apparently slowed down the traffic to a crawl. The oldest automobiles in the view date back to about 1930 to ’31 and…
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