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The historic fifteen-hundred seat Tacoma Stadium Bowl opened in 1910 next to the Chateauesque High School (opened 1908 in a converted defunct hotel) later renamed the Stadium High School make for a quite interesting story. This November 25, 1953, photo by the Richards Studio contains Stadium High School students and “Richfield Men” working towards a…
For the fun and enjoyment of our readers being able to join in and solve mysteries, in this weekly series, we ask you to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles. You can look back on over three hundred of the earlier posts in this series here. The images are via This Was…
It appears that R.H. Lett of Jacksonville Beach, FL, or his shop helpers were the kind of auto repair MacGyver’s who were good to have around in a situation where a make-do repair or rig is needed. First, off they took an older used 1913 to ’14 Cadillac touring car and turned it into a…
Today’s photos were taken on various assembly lines at the Packard plant located on East Grand Blvd. in Detroit, MI. The lead final assembly line image contains spotlights at the end of the 1941 Packard final assembly line, which helped inspectors find flaws on finished cars ready to be driven off of the line. The…
Today’s feature is a series of five Kodachrome Dealer Postcards from around the US, courtesy of Auto Historian Alden Jewell. The lead image is a view of Mel Burns Ford Sales Lot in Long Beach, CA, and his Shelby American showroom closest to the camera. Burns campaigned a 1965 GT 350 Shelby Mustang that became…
The designer of the Tacoma, WA, CO-OP cab-over-engine Egg “product mobile” truck body by an unknown maker certainly was influenced by the mid to late 1930s and early ’40s streamlined designs by Brooks Stevens, Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, and Everett Miller, and others. It is likely that the slab-sided styling and construction of this vehicle was…
Walter Soerens opened this Ford dealership during the Model “T” days on Friday, May 19, 1917, at its original site in Milwaukee, WI, at 27th St. and Capitol Dr. Today, Soerens Ford is located in Brookfield, a suburb situated ten miles west of the City and is owned and operated by Stephanie Soerens-Borkowski Walter Soerens’…
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