The library at the University of Illinois at Chicago has just released a series of photographs of downtown Chicago street scenes taken by the Illinois Department of Transportation over the years. Being the IDOT, there are admittedly many photographs of empty intersections, but among them are plenty of the sort of photographs a lot of […]
Pearl Harbor galvanized the country and sent it headlong into World War II, this we know. Just how everything changed – and so drastically – after that day is ripe for illustration, and Alfred Palmer did a good job of that with his photograph above, shot outside a large hangar at a Goodyear facility in […]
I wonder what kind of a spin Rod Serling could have put on this snapshot from the El Patio Motel in the mid-Fifties. Look at the two chaps poolside: “A relaxing moment for Fred Hall and Bill Watson. Two friends who just sat down from a tiring day on the road. Little do they know […]