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The location is identified as "First Avenue," but no word on what city it's in.
The two photos look to have been taken from the same vantage point.
The theatre marquee dates this as 1976, when Clint Eastwood's The Enforcer, the third installment of the "Dirty Harry" franchise, was a first-run feature. So ask yourself, do you see anything interesting?
Well, do ya, punk?
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
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Let's try a video challenge this week. This is a film of Sunset Boulevard–alias "Sunset Strip"–in Hollywood, taken on a bright sunny day in 1964. There's plenty to look at.
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
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Let's try a video challenge this week. This is a film of Sunset Boulevard–alias "Sunset Strip"–in Hollywood, taken on a bright sunny day in 1964. There's plenty to look at.
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
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This week we have two postcard images of the TraveLodge in Erie, Pennsylvania, taken a few years apart from roughly the same vantage point.
See anything interesting?
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
(Images obtained from the online motel postcard collection of writer James Lileks.)
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This is the "City Center" TraveLodge motel in Vancouver, BC. The date is given as 1970.
My family stayed at TraveLodges a lot when we were on our epic road-trip vacations in the Plymouth Belvedere. For some reason, there was no TraveLodge (or at least none we knew about) anywhere close to Youngstown, which gave them some novelty value. Also, Mom liked the sleepwalking bear trademark, and Dad had some deep-seated aversion to Holiday Inns and Howard Johnsons that he never quite explained.
There a…
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In keeping with this week's theme, our Challenge is a series of screencaps from Corvette Summer. The 1978 film starred Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Danny Bonaduce, and an aggressively-customized C3 in a two-fisted, eight-cylindered tale of greed, betrayal, vengeance, Car Lust, and disco-era malaise.
Have at it, car-spotters! Boogie-oogie-oogie 'til you just can't boogie no more.
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
(Screen images obtained from IMCDb. No fair cheating by clicking the link.)
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On a sunny day in the 1970s, Mom and the kids head into town for a shopping expedition.
No information on where this is or who they are, but it's obviously a smaller town in a hilly part of the country. The facial expressions and body language of the three kids convey a lot of personality. If I were teaching creative writing, I'd use this photo as a story prompt.
As for the cars, the station wagon is a gimmie, but you'll have to work for the rest.
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
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Frank Owen Shaw, a Boeing quality control inspector and talented amatuer photographer, captured this image from the window of his apartment on the northwest corner of First Street North and Republican in Seattle on October 6, 1959. It's one of a series of photos he took from the same window over the next three years, documenting the construction of the campus for the 1962 World's Fair.
The Washington State Pavilion–later the Washington State Coliseum, then the Seattle Center Coliseum, now calle…
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A crowded parking lot, in the days of platform shoes and pet rocks.
Anything here that lights up your mood ring?
–Cookie the Dog's Owner
(Photo obtained from the Station Wagon Forum's extensive collection of vintage street scenes, to which it was contributed by member "OrthmannJ.")
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♫ "It's All Over But The Cryin'."♫ If that's not a country music song, it should be. And our Holidays are now over, except for the surprise we'll get when we open our next bank statements. Oh the pain… the pain.
But at least the nightmare of the parking lot wars is over. So to
take our minds off of the upcoming "obligations," here's a reminder, maybe
from 1986 (See the scribbling?), of the fun we had finding parking spaces at the mall last month. And I'…
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