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Today’s lead image seems to have been taken on a family farm where Chrysler’s appear to have been the vehicle of choice. The contrast between these two models shows just how quickly automotive design and stying evolved in the post-war years. As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell…
In 1953 General Motors pulled out all the stops and unveiled its new and elaborate Motorama shows at the beginning of a six-city tour held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Exhibited at the spectacular presentations were the LeSabre, Buick XP-300 and Wildcat, Pontiac La Parisienne, Oldsmobile Starfire, Cadillac LeMans, and Orleans…
It’s that time of the year again when wanderlust and a need for a change in scenery have traditionally put some Americans on the road towing their accommodations behind them searching for the perfect campsite. This year due to Covid-19, camping has become a popular way to travel again instead of staying in a hotel….
Today’s lead image contains the Hendricks Bros. used car lot located in an unknown city or town somewhere in Davie County, NC, which is situated southwest of Winston-Salem. After examining the shape and the three-toned paint scheme and trim outline on the car on top of Hendricks sign, which resembles a 1956 to ’57 Rambler,…
A little over a month ago, we posted: Late-1960s: Gritty Gasoline Alley Image Camden, New Jersey. Today we are back in Camden, with three other images we found recently documenting rush hour traffic on Camden Boulevard in the City. We now know that the photos were taken in either late 1968 or early in 1969…
This impressive Gulf Oil Company service station located in an unknown area of Philadelphia, PA, was designed in the manner of the then-popular Streamline Moderne architecture. This form of building construction was fashionable from the mid-1930s to the ’50s, both here in the US and around the world. The “Good Gulf Nonox” neon sign out…
Today’s colorful lead image is a view of a well-known west coast tourist attraction taken in the mid-fifties and a street filled with 1940s and ’50s automobiles. Two-tone paint schemes and pastel colors were popular throughout the decade in stark contrast to the vehicles produced in the forties and the late sixties. As is the…
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