Both of these photos of Hereford, Texas, as found on the Portal to Texas History, are rather ambiguously dated, so let’s see if we can help narrow the date down a little bit by examining the vehicles in the photos. What do you see here?
After a few days’ reprieve from winter, it’s back here in Vermont, so let’s dig up some more snow scenes. Over on the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread, RedlandMaggie posted these two shots of the Snow Bunny Lodge parking lot near Mount Hood, Oregon, and presuming both photos were taken at the same tome, we’d date them to the early 1960s. What do you see here?
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 source has plenty of other photos of the area throughout the years, so we thought we’d include another below, showing the backside of the Woolworth’s and Sears, taken from St. Paul Street, just south of Cherry Stre…
One would have thought that pinpointing the location of this photo found over at the Duke University Libraries’ online photo archive would have been a simple matter of discerning the location of Ace Oldsmobile, on the left-hand side of the street. Despite our best efforts, though, we could only find out that Ace Oldsmobile remained in business somewhere in Irvington, New Jersey, at least into the mid-1980s. Instead, the best indicator comes from the fuzzy street sign for County Road 509, which ind…
One would have thought that pinpointing the location of this photo found over at the Duke University Libraries’ online photo archive would have been a simple matter of discerning the location of Ace Oldsmobile, on the left-hand side of the street. Despite our best efforts, though, we could only find out that Ace Oldsmobile remained in business somewhere in Irvington, New Jersey, at least into the mid-1980s. Instead, the best indicator comes from the fuzzy street sign for County Road 509, which ind…
One thing we’ve noticed while browsing through the Portal to Texas History online photo archive is that the people of Hereford, Texas, seemed to do an excellent job of documenting the town over the years (or simply plenty of Hereford photos have been uploaded to the PTH database). That means more street scenes from the town, including these three, all shot sometime in the 1960s of the traffic and parking along Main Street, looking north from Second Street. What do you see here? And can you help th…
We noted some American vehicles on the streets of Taipei in a previous street scene, and today’s photo, courtesy Kent Mathieu of the Taipei Air Station blog, offers at least a partial explanation, with enough American cars in the parking lot of the U.S. Navy Commissary Store to make it look like a typical day in the heartland of America, save for the license plates, of course. Kent wrote:
Back in those days, American GI’s could sell their cars to local folks when their tour was up and they …
We originally came across this parking lot scene that swi66 posted to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread and tracked down more information on it at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Flickr page, where it notes that it’s a shot of the campus’s west parking lot from the College of Engineering. Carspotters, what do you see here? And does anybody want to take a guess at the earliest possible date this photo may have been taken?
From yesterday’s street scene on the other side of the world, we come back to Bennington, Vermont, for today’s scene, courtesy the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program. We can easily identify the location – on Route 7 looking north toward the Four Corners – and given the cars in the scene, we can at least set an earliest possible date. What do you see here and what date would you place on this photo?
Greg Gjerdingen recently added the above photo of the parking lot and terminal of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, and we thought it’d make for a great carspotting exercise, especially for you station wagon fans in the audience. We’re sure Greg can tell us the date of the photo, but before he does, try to figure it out based on what you see in the lot.