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Today’s feature image shot in 1950 looks down on SW Madison St. and 5th Ave. in Portland, OR. Like many street scene pictures, the more you study them, interesting things become apparent. The most amusing thing in the photo is the Cadillac advertisement on the billboard across the street from the Francis & Hopkins Lincoln…
Today’s feature is another set of random Tenth Anniversary photos, which we posted way back in 2011. Back at that time, The Old Motor was focused on Pre-War vehicles, with most of them being manufactured before WWI. The lead image contains “Workmen finishing the set up of an Oldsmobile on a rotisserie.” Please share with us what you find…
The big question today is who is “Swede” that’s recorded on the banner in today’s lead image? Was he a favorite local mechanic or a gas pump jockey who recently started working at this Standard Oil filling station, or was “Swede” a part of a Standard promotion? Whatever the case, this is an interesting photo,…
Beginning in about three weeks from now the cherry blossoms will begin to bloom again in Washington, DC, just as they did sixty-five years ago on March 30, 1956 (dated by the source) when this image was taken of the Library of Congress and grounds. The Law Library is known as the “World’s Biggest Library”…
These photos date to December 9, 195o, the day that South Tacoma Motor Company, located at 5602 South Tacoma Way in the Washington State City, held it’s new model rollout of the 1951 models. The star of the show was a two-door Bel Air hardtop displayed on a turntable in front of the showroom window. Visit…
The day was April 26, 1961, and this telephoto view, according to the source, was taken at the intersection of 1st and Hope Streets in Los Angeles, CA, which is about a mile north of the center of the City. An early-1950s Cadillac is waiting at the light on N. Fremont Ave., and beyond and…
The billboard slogan is “You’ve Got to Drive it to Believe it!” at Munson-Smith Motors Dodge and Plymouth, located at 4101 South Tacoma Way in Tacoma, WA. The photo is by the Richard’s Studio, and is dated March 18, 1953. Visible on this sales lot are vehicles that may date back to as early as…
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