Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
About the same time Charles Cushman took the shot of South Street in New York City that we saw yesterday, Marion Post Wolcott was documenting the flight of New Yorkers out of the city and toward the shore (or, more appropriately, given that it’s described as Sunday traffic, the flight Read more
Manhattan often seems timeless, but it’s not so timeless that we can figure out where exactly on South Street Charles Cushman stood when he took this photo in June 1941. Wherever he stood, though, we’re certain that FDR Drive overshadows it now. Carspotters, what do you see here? City people, Read more
As with the recent shot of Burlington, Vermont, today’s street scene, a postcard shot of the intersection of Market and Butte streets in Redding, California, shot sometime in the 1950s and found over on Roadsidepictures’s Flickr account, has been replaced with a pedestrian mall. Aside from the wonderful variety of Read more
Ah, a perfect street scene. I see no particular reason why Cal Humphrey took this shot of downtown New Richmond, Wisconsin – specifically South Knowles Avenue just south of Third Street, looking north – so we can presume that everybody here is simply going about their normal daily business in Read more
Depending on which source you read, Dodge either did or did not build a WC series canopy truck in 1947. However, Dodge definitely built a WC panel truck that year, one of which was converted into this 1947 Dodge WC canopy truck for sale on Hemmings.com, and rather convincingly at Read more
With the shuttering of Mr. Toad’s Tours in San Francisco – a sightseeing company that ferried its passengers in vintage and vintage-style touring buses – comes the sale of all five of its vehicles on Hemmings.com. Among them is the 1924 White Yellowstone bus – a survivor of the 1925 Read more
Charles O’Rear’s May 1972 shot of a salvage yard in Henderson, Nevada, taken for the Documerica project, is a little fuzzy in the details – presumably he was going for the overall shot rather than for the individual cars in the yard – but some of the shapes remain recognizable. Read more
We have our friends Geoff Hacker and Dan Palatnik to thank for forwarding this 12-minute commercial for the 1962 Tatra 603, featuring a nearly inexplicable story line (Is he their chauffeur? Are they on a dealer demonstration drive?), technology-wielding cops, and an earnest attempt to placate consumers worried about Tatra’s Read more
Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, is now a pedestrian-only zone, but there once was a time when it was open to vehicular traffic, as we see from the shot above from the Vermont Landscape Change project, showing Church Street just south of Bank Street in 1962. In fact, the same Read more
The state capitol campus in Olympia, Washington, has seen a few changes since this shot, which we came across on the Washington State Archives, was taken in about 1956, so we can’t be sure whether this parking lot was for the state’s congressmen, for their aides and other state workers, Read more