Stéphane Dumas pointed out this video in the comments to yesterday’s Chicago street scene post, and we thought it too cool. The concept: In 1974, a resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, strapped a camera to his bicycle, set the camera’s Read more
Following C. William Brubaker on his 1976 photographic trek around Chicago, we come to a couple photos taken of a parking lot on the corner of North Michigan Avenue and E. Superior Street, focused on the sign for Gino’s East Read more
Courtesy of the Duke University Library’s digital collections comes today’s street scene, pinpointed to June 22, 1949, at the intersection of U.S. routes 1 and 9 and Lawrence Street in Rahway, New Jersey. Nowadays, not a single element of this Read more
What manufacturer nowadays would even bother to offer a compact car with a convertible top? None, surely, all of them fearing the wrath of the NHTSA, but in the Sixties it wasn’t that unheard of, and this cheeky 1961 Rambler Read more
Last weekend we linked to Steven Katkowsky’s VintageTrailerMuseum.com and now we see he has this 1950 Vagabond 19-foot travel trailer for sale on Hemmings.com. Where does he find all these rare and well preserved mid-century marvels? From the seller’s description: Read more
Public transportation makes sense in many ways, but it also isn’t for everybody, a fact that this photo from the UCLA Library’s digital collections makes obvious. Taken during the inauguration of the El Monte-Los Angeles bus line on the San Read more
Photo courtesy LeMay – America’s Car Museum One of the highlights of the LeMay – America’s Car Museum’s recent grand opening weekend was the presentation of the inaugural Nicola Bulgari Award to Ed Welburn, the vice president of Global Design Read more
Why Charles Cushman made two trips to Nevada City, California, in subsequent years, we’re not sure, but he came away with great street scenes both times. From the August 1955 visit, we actually have two street scenes to examine, both Read more
We originally came across this parking lot scene that swi66 posted to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread and tracked down more information on it at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Flickr page, where it notes Read more
At our cruise night last week, we noticed David Rose of HittingRedline.com filming while we wandered the parking lot. We’ve seen his work before, so we were interested in what he’d come up with after spending some time with some Read more