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Today’s feature image was taken at the Autoville Cadillac Department located at 3836 North Western Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It appears that Autoville was either a used car lot for a Cadillac dealership or a sales lot that specialized in used Cadillacs. The second photo below contains a view of the sales office which is without…
Today’s circa 1962 feature image taken in an industrial area in an unknown location contains a view of a used car sales lot in the foreground with the front row filled with 1950s cars. Passing by on the street is a finned 1960 Plymouth, and in front of the Super Market Distributors building in the…
Number One-Hundred and Fifty-Eight of the Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with an image of a mildly customized 1950s Ford convertible. This wedding “get away” car was decorated with some runny substance along with gold and white decorations added by friends before the service. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers…
The Northeast Expressway, later named the Kennedy Expressway after the death of the President of the United States John F. Kennedy in 1963. The highway was constructed in the late-1950s and finally completed and opened to traffic on November 5, 1960. The southeastern portion of the roadway begins on the west side of the City of…
Today’s feature photos all originate from the City of Tampa, Florida, and were taken between the years of 1936 to ’53. The lead image and the picture below were both taken at Boyd’s Sunoco service station in January of 1936. The owner of the filling station apparently also operated Boyd’s “Free Zoo” and used his animals for…
The Northgate Plaza, located just outside the City of Rochester, New York, on Dewey Avenue in the town of Greece was constructed on farmland by Emil Muller a shopping plaza developer, it opened for business in 1953. At that time Muller had already built about twenty other plazas in the US. The vast majority of the…
Number One-Hundred and Fifty-Seven of the Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with an image of an early Corvette and its driver heading down a road in California. This picture appears to have been taken by a professional photographer, could this be a General Motors Photographic marketing photo, for some type of a production, or was…
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