Today’s feature image taken on April 25, 1942, captured the scene at the grand opening of a new Ralphs Supermarket in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angles, California, located southwest of the City at Crenshaw Boulevard and Rodeo Road. The crowded parking lot contains a mix of interesting 1930s to early-1940s automobiles representing a cross-section of vehicles on the streets of the…
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Freeport, Long Island is the scene of today’s circa 1949 images of two municipal parking lots in the Village that appear new enough to be constructed in the postwar years. Freeport is located within the town of Hempstead in Nassau County only 22-miles from the New York City borough of Queens on the South Shore of…
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It is Friday again and time for number forty-two in the Fun Friday Kodachrome Image Series. Today’s lead photo shows two young boys posing in front of a repainted root beer-colored three-window coupe. This popular car is accessorized with: a spotlight, fog lights, clamp on rear view mirrors and fender skirts. This is an easy automobile to identify so…
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