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Number One-Hundred and Eight of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a couple from Virginia posing with an early-1950s Cadillac convertible. Back in time being able to purchase one of these status symbols brand-new signified that you were very successful in life and had arrived. Tell us what you know about this particular example. As is the…
Today’s image, dated 1960, takes us “Deep in the Heart of Texas” to the City of Austin, the State’s Capitol. The view is of a 2-J Hamburgers Drive-In that added a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise to its operation. The 2-J burger chain began operations at some point in the early fifties or before. Tell us what…
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…
Number One-hundred and three of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photograph of a proud young man with a red and white Chevrolet two-door hardtop. It and a Ford sedan appear to be the newest cars in this subdivision with some of the others dating back to the late-1940s. Tell what you know about this vehicle. As is…
Number One-hundred and two of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photograph of Yankee Stadium taken on September 19, 1959. It appears a baseball game had just finished and the fans were leaving the New York City landmark located in the Bronx. In 2009 this facility was replaced by a newly constructed stadium one block…
Number Ninety-eight of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with an image of four women, one with cat-eye sunglasses in a Chrysler Products Corporation convertible. The wild-looking orange color is either a repaint or more likely caused by the Kodachrome film. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell us the year,…
Number Ninety-five of the Kodachrome Image Series this week contains photos of motels, mostly in sunny and warm places, which would be perfect for an end of the winter vacation in the sun. The lead image and the enlarged version of it below are of the Beachcomber Motel located in Miami Beach, Florida in the late-1950s or early-1960s….
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