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Number One-Hundred and Sixty-Eight of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of a team of “Thrill Drivers” performing at a show inside of a drive-in movie theatre. Apparently, Kupp Ford sponsored the grey four-door sedan and possibly the entire show. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our…
Number One-Hundred and Sixty-Seven of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of the “Great American Dream” for an average family – a house in the suburbs and a new car. Although this gentleman appears to be uneasy about all the debt he has committed to while he poses with his…
Number One-Hundred and Sixty-Five of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of a Mercedes-Benz that was an imported automotive icon here in the states in the fifties. The scene was captured in a parking lot at an auto race at a fair in 1956, note the ferris wheel in the…
We have temporarily run out of photos for the “Parking Lot Series” at this point so for today’s feature a series of three images of parked cars is taking its place. All of the pictures were shot on the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The lead image dated June 6, 1961, is a view of the…
This pair of photos are both identified in the Wayne State University Photo Archives as being taken on the Lodge Expressway which extends in a northwesterly direction from downtown Detroit, Michigan. It turns out that the lead image which was taken in the late fifties is of an unidentified highway that might be I-75 southwest…
Number One-Hundred and Sixty-Two of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of a gentleman on a trip to Cape Cod, located in eastern Massachusetts with a 1960s Pontiac station wagon. It appears his significant other took this photo on the Cape at a Gulf Service Station where he filled up…
Traffic congestion and road construction have been an ongoing issue in cities ever since the 1910s. This press photo taken in the springtime shows the situation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1956, at an unknown location. The image contains a view of a five-lane highway expanded to six by the use of the shoulder in the foreground….
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