Lost Dealerships roundup: Times Square Packard, AMC nameplates, Fords in the snow

Though Packard was based securely in the Midwest throughout its existence, the company apparently always maintained a presence in New York City.  We already took a brief look at the most well-known NYC Packard dealership, at 1861 Broadway, but thanks to a recent Shorpy photo of Longacre Square (later Times Square), we see that there was a Packard dealership at 1540 Broadway, occupied by them from November 1904 to June 1907, when Albert Kahn built the more uptown location. (This location doesn’t seem to be documented on PackardInfo.com.) A third location, Packard Uptown, supposedly at 3336 Broadway (though the addresses don’t match up), can be seen in Flickr photos by Paul Lowry and baja_nyc.

Ian Webb’s been occasionally sending me AMC nameplates that he’s discovered in his research, including the three above. From the 1983 list of AMC dealerships, we can see that Pamby Motors in Ridgefield, Connecticut, was located at 36 Danbury Road (they still have a Jeep sign up!); Tysons actually had an address of 8448 Leesburg Pike (Route 7), Vienna (which seems to encompass Tysons Corner) (now Tysons Dodge Jeep); and that Osborn wasn’t around in 1983, though there was a Northland AMC in Thornton, Colorado, at 1800 W. 104th (now Pro Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram).

From Gary Faules, a Flickr slideshow of old Ford dealerships. We plucked this shot of Geo. Walker Ford just for the visual of a Mustang braving the winter of 1969, but user Boss Mustang, who provided the photo, didn’t include the location of the dealership. I’m rather certain that the proprietor didn’t have anything to do with George W. Walker, Thunderbird designer.

Finally, while we’re on the topic of Ford dealerships, our friend Geoff Hacker’s been researching a fiberglass car called the Navajo, which he was told was marketed out of a Ford dealership located at 1871 Broadway in New York City (practically next door to one of the Packard dealerships discussed above). So far, Geoff’s been unable to track down the name of that dealership. Any Big Apple residents recall it at all?