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In 2017, Atlanta, Georgia was ranked as having the fourth-worst traffic problem in the US, and on the international level it came in as the eight-worst for the second year in a row. Today’s feature image taken circa 1967 in the southern City show that during rush hour the traffic problem on Interstates 75 and 85…
Following yesterday’s post covering the Mastin-Parris Motor Co. a De Soto and Plymouth agency in the pre-war days, today’s feature is post-war promotional photos of Wagstaff Motors, another De Soto and Plymouth dealership that was located on Spring Street in Atlanta, Georgia. The photo taken at a Gulf service station is dated June of 1960,…
Today’s street scene image of an unidentified intersection in Atlanta, Georgia, is a press photo that documented traffic congestion in the City. Surrounding this intersection are a number of businesses that dealt with servicing vehicles, on the far-left is a Standard Oil filling station, a General Tire shop and an Auto Loan business. On the right-hand…
Today’s feature image by Floyd E. Jillson for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper was published on December 12, 1963. The picture contains the Atlanta, Georgia, skyline, new General Motors 1964 automobiles on train cars, and the Southeast Expressway. The new cars were built at the General Motors Lakewood Heights Assembly Plant that was located about five…
Today’s feature image dated September of 1945 contains an unidentified intersection in Atlanta, Georgia. For old car enthusiasts who enjoy viewing old photos this picture has it all, a busy street scene, a filling station, and a parking lot. The Standard Oil gasoline station on the right-hand corner has a parking lot costing 75-cents a…
In the sixties, a series of Hi-Octane gasoline stations in the Atlanta, Georgia area sold 99 and 92 octane fuel and used Ford car give away promotions as a way of building traffic at a number of its locations in and around the City. Hi-Octane also cashed paychecks only for customers and because of it probably…
The Webster Garage, photographed in March of 1961, was located in Atlanta, Georgia at 140 Butler Street NW. It looks just like many of the older gritty automotive repair and body and paint shops in grimy old industrial areas that used to dot the land across America. Often these establishments were the last chance for…
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