This rest stop on Interstate 91 between Barton and Derby probably hasn’t seen this many cars all at once since the grand opening ceremony for that section of interstate, which took place on a sleety November 9, 1972. Below, a couple other photos of that day that we found on the University of Vermont’s Vermont Landscape Change program‘s online photo archive showing a few more of the gathered vehicles. What do you see here?
Ski season again, and as is tradition, we’ll mark that time of year with some carspotting photos of skiiers hitting the slopes in Vermont. In this Vermont Landscape Change program photo, we see the parking lot of the Smuggler’s Notch Ski Resort sometime in the 1957-1958 season. 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…
We thought we had exhausted the supply of good photos from Rutland the last time we went through the Vermont Landscape Change Program‘s online photo archive, but obviously we missed a few. So today we’ll go back to the Grant’s parking lot for some more carspotting. What do you see here?
Now that we’ve had our three days of summer in Vermont, it’s time to start prepping once again for winter. Lay up the cordwood, seal up the windows and reinstall chains on the tires so we don’t get immobilized in a snowstorm as these unlucky folks did in January 1974 on I-5 near Newhall, California, as seen on the UCLA Library’s online photo archive.
One more snowy street scene, this one likely taken within the same time period but across the country in Burlington, Vermont, cour…
We lament the modern all-in-one shopping supercenter and strip mall and the efficiency with which they drain business from downtowns as if these were recent developments, but as we can see from this set of photos of the old Grant’s in Rutland, Vermont, dated 1970 and gathered from the Vermont Landscape Change program’s online photo archive, small-town America has been dealing with these developments for decades. Of course, the automobile played (and plays) a large role in changing the Vermon…
While digging up the photos for the story on Rutland, Vermont’s dealership row on the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program a few weeks back, we came upon plenty of street scenes from all around Rutland from roughly the same time, late 1960s through early 1970s, and thought a few would be worth including here as carspotting scenes. Above, the intersection of Merchants Row and West Street, looking south.
Merchants Row eventually becomes Grove Street, and we believe this is Crescen…
Somebody must’ve been hitting up the Vermont estate auctions with camera in tow in 1962. First, we see the auction in Dorset a couple weeks ago, now we come across photos of a much larger estate auction in Thetford on the Vermont Landscape Change online photo archive. This one, however, seems to be an established auction house that operated near the intersection of routes 5 and 113 that attracted a much larger crowd. What do you see here?
Ah, the New England estate auction. Musty, dusty, rusty farm implements in the barn and acres of lace curtains and collector plates in the house. Despite that, there’s still treasures to be found if you can get there early enough and elbow your way to the front of the crowd. What gems awaited the bidders at this 1962 auction in Dorset, Vermont, photograph courtesy the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program, we don’t know, but we can at least take a stab at identifying all the…
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?