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Staley’s first restaurant pictured above with “Curb Service” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was a constructed in 1937 in conjunction with a local oil company. In addition to food, Shell gasoline and oil products were sold at the restaurant at this location. The lead image shows a couple in a Plymouth two-door hardtop at Staley’s second restaurant which…
Today’s feature image was taken in Weatherford, Texas, during a parade in the City in 1953. The municipality is located about thirty miles west of Fort Worth. The buntings hanging from the light-colored building on the far-left corner apparently indicate that the parade may have been held on the Fourth of July. A Gulf Oil Company…
We are sorry that the photos for Number One-Hundred and Forty-Eight of the Kodachrome Car Photos Series today are not as good as what is usually posted here on Fridays. The continued internet outage due to the high winds that passed through the area have left our photo archives temporarily inaccessible. This was the best that could…
Number One-Hundred and Forty-Seven of the Kodachrome Car Photos Series begins this week with an image of the Stardust Hotel and Casino. The famous Las Vegas hot spot opened on July 2, 1958, and judging by the appearance of the cars in the parking lot this picture may have been taken as early a 1959. As is the…
For today’s installment in the Parking Lot Series, the lead photo is a street view of parking in Philadelphia. The image was taken in front of the John Bartram High School on 66th Street in September of 1958 in the City. The majority of the automobiles in the scene date from the forties and fifties,…
Number One-Hundred and Forty-Six of the Kodachrome Car Images Series begins this week with an image apparently taken by the father of this family and their automobiles. A daughter is with a blue Corvette minus a license plate, two sons are posing with a Chevrolet two-door hardtop, and mom is standing next to a Plymouth or Dodge….
Today’s feature image taken by a Detroit News photographer in the early-1950s contains two parking lots and traffic on 1st Street between them in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The large building visible on the right below was the home of the Michigan Typesetting Co. The building with an exterior fire escape on the left side of 1st…
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