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Today’s lead image of Pikeville, Kentucky which is situated in the southeastern portion of the State was taken in the mid-1950s on Humbly Boulevard, a horseshoe-shaped road the small-sized City is located on. Of interest here is the B.F. Goodrich tire shop and the parked vehicles. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our…
Today’s feature images take us to Phoenix, Arizona, and Chicago, Illinois. A Carnation Company dairy products office and warehouse building is the backdrop for the automobiles in the enlargeable image above, that for the most part, appears to contain upscale vehicles owned by Company executives. The photo below contains a parking lot next to the Prudential…
The Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with a circa late-1940s to early-1950s image of a Pep Boys store in an unknown location. The first two vehicles in this scene date back to the pre-World War II days and the pickup truck and dark-colored sedan in the background were manufactured in the postwar days. The photo…
Today’s feature press photo contains a view of Ridge Avenue and Darien Street located in East Falls, a neighborhood located on the west side of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The image was taken during rush hour on November 2, 1954. Other than the Cadillac visible in the left-center of the picture many of the automobiles appear to be…
This mid-1960s image of a parking lot located at the University of California at Irvine is next to the site where a new administration building was going to be built. During this period the Irvine Company began to develop the City situated in the center of Orange County located southeast of Los Angeles. In the fifties and…
The Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with an appropriate image for tomorrows change of seasons. Saturday the 22nd of September is the first day of Autumn this year and today’s feature image contains fall foliage in the background of this light blue Studebaker coupe. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell…
As a part of promoting its involvement with mass transit vehicles during the 1950s, this General Electric Company promotional image was taken in the fall of 1955. The picture demonstrates how twenty-five cars and a Suburan could be replaced by the use of one mass transit vehicle which could accommodate all of the twenty-eight drivers…
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