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History Texaco gasstation streetscene - Anyone know where?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by BigBlockMopar, Dec 2, 2008.

  1. BigBlockMopar
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    I've made this black&white scan some time back from a hardcopy someone had once made for me.
    Recently I did a bit of digital coloring in it and now I'm going to print this out as a 11-foot wide mural in my garage. (I've got a high-resolution version of this scan on the computer at work.)

    But I'm curious of the location of this place. Does anyone happen to know this print or where the picture might have been taken?


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  2. Bruce Lancaster
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    I think there's a good chance that the pic is in one of the Library of Congress picture collections online, and if so there may be identification of photog and place.
     
  3. BigBlockMopar
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    Thanks for the lead. I'll do some snooping around there.
     
  4. Bruce Lancaster
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    There is a collection of 1940's color pics on there somewhere--I didn't manage to find them today. They got a lot of discussion here about a year ago...
    That one would be very typical of the collection I have in mind.
    I did try "Texaco" as a search word in one of the BW collections, and found old gas station pics...
     
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    I've seen that picture recently. Shorpy, Life, or here on the HAMB, or just Google Images? Can't remember. but it was the BW version.
     
  7. BigBlockMopar
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    Ok, I also located 2 (actually 3 but 2 are the same) versions of this photo in the LIFE-gallery on Google images;

    Location: Seligman, AZ, US
    Date taken: September 1947

    1st pic

    2nd pic

    Thanks for the leads guys. Perhaps I can 'upgrade' the scanned image I've got with these pics as I see my scan is heavily contrasted.
     

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