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Today’s featured image contains a view of the Minneapolis Auditorium after the set up for the 1956 Auto Show. Apparently, the regional Studebaker distributor and or the local dealers paid extra to display the Automaker’s offerings up front and center on the stage where more attention would be garnered for the vehicles. The “Big Three,”…
To finish out the week today, we have a human interest image dated to September 26, 1947, by the source. In the photo Minneapolis Traffic Patrolman, Ralph Stirratt, appears to be holding a ball while directing traffic at the intersection of Seventh Street and Marquette Avenue. His Harley-Davidson Servi-car is parked next to the traffic…
The Mountain Inn was located on the Lincoln Highway, and PA Route 3o four miles east of Greensburg, which is situated in southwestern Pennsylvania. This facility was about thirty-five miles east of Pittsburgh which made it an ideal overnight stop for City residents on a weekend motoring trip to the mountains. The automobile in the foreground of the…
The Rotary Club, first formed in 1905, is a humanitarian organization that works to spread peace and goodwill around the world; in 1922 the club name was changed to the Rotary International. In 1912 the Rotary National Convention was held in Duluth, Minnesota, and today’s feature image contains club members taking a motor tour around…
Today’s feature image, taken on February 7, 1938, is the first in a series of photos showing Sunset Boulevard and vehicles on it dating all the way back to 1904. This photograph shows the Boulevard traveling left-to-right at the intersection with Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California. The 22-mile long thoroughfare travels west from Little Armenia located near the Hollywood Palladium and…
This photo is the first in a series of three parking lots images taken by photographer John Vachon in July of 1941 while he worked for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. The location is unknown, and the only possible hint as to where in the City it was located is the white fence and the billboard…
Today’s image, taken in the early-1950s from City Hall shows Reyburn Plaza in Philadelphia being pressed into service as a temporary parking lot and a street scene on Filbert Street. Partially visible at the rear of the plaza is a music shell. The great majority of the automobiles parked in the plaza other than a…
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