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Number One-Hundred and Twenty-Four of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a colorful photo of a couple posing with a metallic blue mid-1960s Corvette coupe. She has a platinum blond beehive hairdo and is wearing a purple two-piece outfit with a corsage, white gloves, handbag, hat, and shoes. He is decked out in a suit with pencil…
This photo should look familiar to our eagle-eyed readers because we recently visited this neighborhood in the City of Pittsburgh and viewed it from another angle on the same day. The image, dated 1951 shows a busy scene at the intersection of Grant Street and Sixth Avenue. In the center of the photograph is a…
Number One-Hundred and Twenty-Two of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a colorful image of rush hour traffic taken circa-1964 on a congested freeway. Where this photo was taken is unknown, but there may be a black and white version of this shot out there somewhere floating around in cyperspace that will help home in on…
This image, dated 1951 contains a view of Central Lincoln Mercury and Midtown Motors, a Ford dealership, both located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on Grant Street between Sixth Avenue and Tunnel Street. In the right foreground next to Central Lincoln Mercury is a city or commercial parking lot. The two sales agencies were located only two…
Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California was created by Walt Disney, who was a talented and highly skilled businessman, illustrator, animator, and filmmaker. The preview and dedication day was held on Sunday, July 17, 1955, and televised nationwide by ABC TV, a major investor in the project. The grand opening was on Monday, the 18th. Today’s lead image and…
Number One-Hundred and Twenty of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photo of a young man seen earlier in “Number One-Hundred and Eleven” of this series with a blue 1949 Buick Sedanette with amber headlight covers. This time around he is in a late-1940s to early-1950s convertible in front of a Texaco gasoline station. The Continental Hotel…
“Moving the metal” is a term for used for auto sales that originated in the early to mid-1900s in the “Motor City,” Detroit, Michigan. The expression is still in use today in new and used car sales field, although over time, for the most part, has transformed to “moving units.” Selling new cars in good times…
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