Four-doors and fins in ’59

Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees recently posted the above everyday traffic shot taken sometime in 1959 on Woodward Avenue in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, not far from where the zoo is today. Anybody recall exactly where the Beckwith Evans was located then? And anybody want to take a stab at identifying all of the […]

Fill ‘er up with No-Nox!

Photo by Rueben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org It’s amazing how much you can take away from a single photo. Take, for instance, the car in this shot from the Rueben Greene collection, which shows the everyday occurrence of a man filling it up with gasoline. From just the hub cap, fender line and roof shape, we […]

Orange County and the vehicles that ply its roads

We don’t really need a reminder of how widespread the automobile became in Southern California, especially after World War II. But after flipping through the Flickr stream of the Orange County Archives, it becomes abundantly clear how dependent Southern California became on the automobile so quickly. Many of the scenes in the collection that show […]