VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Maybe recognizes some of the kids facial features on the MM.

 

I always concentrated on the 4-speed cars of that era but now know most of the Ford Cruise-O-Matics were built by Art Carr. I don’t think any Chevrolets were ever a factor in the automatic class; just Dodges, Plymouths, and a few Fords.

 

Looks like Eastern Pkwy. or Ocean pkwy. in Brooklyn. ?

 

Joan Bradshaw 1957

 

Year unknown. Formally at the intersection of Albany St. and Eastern Pkwy. in Brooklyn, New York

The model here was what General Electric classified as its Novalux 8, two-color traffic signal.

Photograph courtesy of Museum of Innovation and Science. Developed originally by General Electric for New York.

 

Album of Original Photographs Showing the Installation of Street Lights in Hamilton, Ohio, 1931. OHIO, ELECTRIC LIGHTING

 

Traffic tower in Cleveland

 

E. 9th and Euclid, Cleveland, OH

 

At the corner of Lexington Av. and 125th St. Manhattan, New York. Late-1920s. Courtesy of the Museum of Innovation and Science.

 

Brooklyn, NY

 

The intersection of W. 32nd St. and Broadway. Manhattan, N.Y. Circa 1956.

 

42nd and 8th. Manhattan, N.Y. 1953