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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…
The Hatch Chevrolet Co. was located in Stockton, California, and today’s lead image and the expandable version of it (above) show a portion of the Company’s “OK” Used Car sales operation. This establishment was located on a street or avenue in the City between two other used car sales lots visible in the photos below. The…
This installment of the “Gas Station Series” contains an image dated by the source as being shot on May 21, 1951. Shown is the busy intersection at the junction of East McNichols Road and Joseph Campau Avenue located six miles north of the center of Detroit. The picture is filled with a wide variety of 1930s…
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