Vintage photos of America. Lots of cars...

Beautiful (high res) photos of American cities. Lots of cars... Didn't see any hot rods, but it's kinda cool to see so much Detroit iron on the road.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=142692

dig it..
- Joe

 

That is pretty cool

 

Thanks for sharing. Those are really neat. I wonder how many of those places still look anything like that?

 

Man that's cool. Look at all those old signs and advertisments.

 

Ah - all them daily drivers....

Great to see the original colors cars actually had.
Dusty and dented, unlike in period movies with mostly waxed showcars and candy colors.

Would love to hear sound with some of the pics.
Thanks for posting.

 

St. Louis - Look at the 55? at the red light sans front bumper and splash pan. At first my mind snapped Gasser! But looking at the rear wheel and stance I bet it was just damage controll...

 

I wish I was born about 50 years earlier. I hate the way the world is now compared to how it was then. Everything then had so much character, now its all cookie-cutter cars and buildings. Too much technology, kids don't have any respect or responsibility.

 

That's pretty cool. It reminds me of photos of Cuba.

 

The whole collection can be found here:
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/browse/yearBrowse.jsp

Click 'browse' at the top to browse by location.

 

United We Stand, things really dont change much huh!

pretty cool thanks for posting!

 

I booked marked the page I thought it was so cool. I like to see that my hometown of Buffalo is on there look as filthy as ever!!!

 

And the world really wasn't black and white back then. My kids really thought the world was..ya know...
Those are like a window into the past with the vivid color.
Thanks

 

SanDeigoJoe,

Hey, thanks for posting the cool photo's, I enjoyed looking at them....

Cruiser

 

I like the sign that says Lawrence Welk concert Sold Out!

 

I feel like i'm going through my grandmas old photo albums!! haha j/k.. cool pictures..

-Anthony

 

when i remember back into my childhood all the colors dont seem to be as bright or exuberent.. its good to know that color back then was just as colorful as it is now... just as not overcrowded with metallic and pearl paints.

 

I'm glad you guys dig the pix!

The "see the USA, in a Chevrolet" song has been rattling around in my head all morning since seeing them.

- Joe

 

nice stuff!!

 

Hope this isn't a repost, but this is a cool link to some vintage TXdot photos of Texas highways and cars. My favorite are the Austin pics.

http://www.texasfreeway.com/austin/historic/photos/austin_historic_photos.shtml

 

WOW. Great post...I love vintage photos!

I walk by this statue thats located on the corner of Colfax and Broadway almost every other day! I've also used the bus stop that still exists on that very corner!

 

Don't you just love the warmth and richness of the old color film. I wish you could somehow replicate that with a modern digital.

Isn't that what's called "chrome" film (i.e. Kodachrome)? I have purchased old postcards in the past and the color ones are often called "color chrome postcards."

Here's downtown Muskegon, circa 1956 if the cars are an accurate representation. Everything you see here was torn down in the '60s to build a mall, which itself has since been torn down and is being replaced with a new downtown:



I'd like to get this image blown up into a big poster, but I'm afraid that since it was copyrighted they won't do it.

-Dave

 

An honest to god rifle range downtown!! We need to bring that back..

 

I love these too...go check out the original site they were found...amazing stuff!

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp

New York 1941


Chicago 1944


Shawneetown, Illinois 1949


Chicago, 1950


Mobile, Alabama 1951


San Antonio 1951


El Paso 1952


Juarez Mexico 1952


Bisbee Arizona 1952


Nogalas Mexico 1952


Evansville Indiana 1952


Colorado Springs 1952


San Fransisco 1953

 

That guy in the gold Zephyr sure got around, didn't he?

-Dave

 

some more...

Colorado Springs 1953


Juarez Mexico 1953


San Rafael, California 1955


San Fransisco 1957


San Fransisco 1958- I think this is the Photographer, because this Zephyr is in a lot of the photos...it says in this picture the Lincoln had 202,700 Miles on it!



California 1958


Chicago 1958


Vicksburg, Mississippi 1959


New Orleans 1959


Acuna Mexico 1959


Juarez Mexico 1959


Tucson, Arizona 1959


Nogales, Mexico 1959


Panel Paintjob on the Chevy? in front of the '59?


Paris, France 1960



Rome, Italy 1960


New York 1960

 

...and some more.

San Fransisco 1961


Lincoln, Nebraska 1963


Chicago 1963




Franklin, Indiana 1963


Indianapolis 1963


Columbus, Indiana 1963


Istanbul, Turkey 1965



Window Rock, Arizona 1965


Chicago 1966


Princeton, Indiana 1966


Georgetown, Colorado 1966


San Fransisco 1966


Damn Hippies... San Fransisco 1968


Corte Madera, California 1968

 

Great link, I got computer wall paper galore now...thanks