Good detective work! I updated that post with a different image, and here are a couple more that I believe are authentic.
Hello, Our dad always bought a large Buick sedan for our family of 4. He was the only one to drive them until my brother was 15. When he started driving, it opened up a new direction for all of us. But in looking at those two photos of kids on Buicks, it reminded me that our dad always told me to sit on the "Buick" for a photo, when he got his big camera out for some photos. An authentic photo taken between 1946 and 47 in a trailer court near the Los Angeles River and Coast Highway, called Highway 101 or PCH at this juncture. (A used 1941 Buick Fastback) When we lived in a large government owned trailer park, it was a simple time and I was usually at home or at least within walking distance of the small trailer. My brother was usually away playing with his friends or at the local elementary school. So, for several years, I was the go to “model’ for our dad’s photos of kids with cars. Ha! At first, it was his 41 Buick fastback sedan. Then when we moved to our first house, the kids on cars photos stopped as we were getting larger and there was a nice grassy front yard with a white picket fence surrounding the lot. By the time he got his huge 49 Buick Roadmaster sedan, there were no more “kids on cars” photos. It was hard enough to keep a huge black car shiny, but having to park it outside due to not fitting in a small garage was bad enough, let alone a couple of brothers growing like weeds during this time period. So, no more photos on the 49 Buick Roadmaster. But, now, there were more travel location photos of little old/young me... 13th Street in Seal Beach. The long pier is in the background. plus some action photos included... Jnaki If it wasn’t for my dad, I would not have had 16mm color films available for me to fiddle around and get good at editing them all together. It was a small job, but at the time, free color film was the pay, as long as I edited his “family films” for his hobby. From kids on cars to trying to show me how to develop films in a dark room was his way to teach me something for future use. But, two people in a home made dark room was too tight to see “what was what,” in the dark or dark red light. Early training on his family movies on the editing machine led to many years later with one, using some original sound recordings from a month difference in 1959 time period. But, his constant “dad was always there” idea for the two sons was reassuring way to know support when we had it. YRMV Photo taken by our mom... on a tripod, of course.
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