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Today’s street scene image was taken on May 5, 1960, looking west on S.E. 13th Avenue, at its intersection with Tacoma Street in Portland, Oregon. In the scene on the left is a Vincis Chevron station selling an early mix of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) and gasoline which has been found to pollute water supplies;…
For today’s post, we travel to Detroit, Michigan for a mid-1950s views of a Hamburger and Barbecue Chicken restaurant and a modern shopping plaza. This Art Moderne styled eatery is diner-sized and has a long oval-shaped window that was popular with this form of building the late thirties, forties and early fifties. Six hamburgers for…
Number One-Hundred and Sixteen of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a photo of a women, her dog, and a late-1930s Ford sedan. At first glance, mostly due to her look and hat, she appears to resemble the actress Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film, “The Wizard…
This Parking Lot Series photo is dated 1960, and taken 57-years ago during a restoration of the cast iron dome and while an addition was built on the front of the US Capitol the building. Back in the period when this image was shot, and well before modern day measures were taken to increase security at…
Number One-Hundred and Eight of the Kodachrome Image Series begins this week with a couple from Virginia posing with an early-1950s Cadillac convertible. Back in time being able to purchase one of these status symbols brand-new signified that you were very successful in life and had arrived. Tell us what you know about this particular example. As is the…
Today’s image, dated 1960, takes us “Deep in the Heart of Texas” to the City of Austin, the State’s Capitol. The view is of a 2-J Hamburgers Drive-In that added a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise to its operation. The 2-J burger chain began operations at some point in the early fifties or before. Tell us what…
Today’s photograph taken in 1955 shows a view of a parking lot located across the street from the State House in Providence, Rhode Island. The building on the far-upper-left-hand-side of the image is identified as St. Patrick’s Church. Considerable redevelopment has occurred in the area, and the church building has since been taken down. The…
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