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Honolulu, Hawaii, 1973

If it weren’t for the street signs, one could easily believe this Charles O’Rear shot of bottlenecked traffic on Hawaii’s H-1 highway outside Honolulu, taken in October 1973, could have been taken anywhere in the continental United States. There’s plenty Read more

Los Angeles, 1966

When do they start flipping cars and burning couches? According to the caption that went with this photo on the UCLA Library’s Digitial Collections site, these are UCLA students “rampaging” in November 1966 on the San Diego Freeway near Wilshire Read more

Columbus, Ohio, 1968

You know, as many everyday street scenes as we’ve shown, rarely have they featured emergency vehicles. Granted, an emergency by definition doesn’t count as an everyday matter, but one would still expect to see more fire trucks, ambulances, and police Read more

Happy holidays

If you’re reading this blog today, we hope you’re doing so while gathered with family, friends, and loved ones. (Show grampa or the grandkids the photos in our street scene series!) We’ll return to our regular programming tomorrow, so in Read more