Portland, Oregon, 1958

We’re finding vintage images all over the place nowadays. Today’s comes from the i am so retro tumblog and depicts a parking lot scene in Portland, Oregon, in 1958. We’re looking for a larger version as we speak, but at this size, you should be able to pick out the identities of most of the […]

Consumerism at work

Over on the excellent Vintage shots from days gone by thread on the H.A.M.B., jalopy junkie recently posted this vivid photo of the grand opening of a place called Shoppers World. He didn’t provide any context, however, so we’re left only with what we see in the image itself to determine when and where the […]

Hermosa Beach, California, 1966

We’ll revisit the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Flickr stream – the same one on which we found the pictures of the Lear-built steam-powered buses – one more time this week for a Technicolor street scene, snapped April 1966 in Hermosa Beach, California. The LACMTA would like us to focus on the bus, but […]