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In this weekly series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with the location and anything else of interest to you in the photos. You can look back at all the earlier parts of this series here. The images are via This Was Americar. In the lead…
Today we travel to Portland, Oregon, for an overhead view of SW Morrison St. between 6th and 5th Avenues in what is known today as the “Pioneer District.” The Meier & Frank building on the left has survived, including the original marquees hanging over the sidewalk. On the right-hand side of SW Morrison St., the…
Today a quick cell phone photo and text is how you inform friends about where you are and what you are doing on vacation. In the past, for well over one-hundred years, photographers did the work for you, and postcard companies printed and distributed the cards sold locally at gift shops and stores. This post…
Today’s four Pre-WWII images were taken in Florida between the mid-1920s to 1940. The lead image and the enlargeable full-sized version below from the Library of Congress are by Marion Post Wolcott, in June 1940 while working for the Farm Security Administration. The young woman and man in the car are Osceola Camp members who…
In this weekly series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with the location and anything else of interest to you in the photos. You can look back at all the earlier parts of this series here. The images are via This Was Americar. It appears that…
Today’s batch of photos originates from St. Louis, Missouri, and date from 1920 to the 1940s. The lead image is a late-1940s view of the service department at the Ray Rixman Inc Dodge Dealership at 7916 N. Broadway in St. Louis, Missouri. The business was founded in the late-1930s. This picture appears to be a…
Today we travel to Puerto de la Guaira located in South America on the northern coast of Venezuela for a view of the port city that is the Capital of the State of Venezuela; it is one of twenty-three states in the country. The town and the port were severely damaged in 1969 by floods…
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