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  1. David Conwill

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Interesting to compare these bridges over the Erie Canal in Schenectady with the ones in the photo above. Trolley tracks and everything.
  2. David Conwill

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Weird to see such an urban area with no automobiles! Interesting that the business furthest to the right says Schenectady something. Could this actually be upstate?
  3. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Wow. That's like a discount from $11,000 down to $7,300.
  4. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    This thread is addictive. Thanks so much for bringing us the news from '39 every day! I ran this through an inflation calculator and came out over $91. Not a bad prize!
  5. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Second-run theatres were still common where I grew up into the late 1990s or early '00s. I miss them almost as much as I detest streaming services.
  7. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Count me in. I'm enjoying the daily news summary from 1939.
  8. David Conwill

    Forgotten Celebrities of the Era

    I spent far too much of this morning reading all about the unfortunate Miss Faithfull and her sad life and demise. It struck me as a suicide or accident rather than a murder, given her propensity for attempting to stow away aboard liners and her frequently intoxicated state. A lurid tale, for...
  9. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    This is wonderful. Often, I've wished I could have each month's issues of Popular Science and National Geographic delivered to my home starting with the 1919 issues and going through 1962 or so.
  10. David Conwill

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Although Detroit kept some of its streetcars in service through 1956, most other Michigan cities where I have lived and visited (Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Bay City, Saginaw, and Flint) got rid of theirs well before World War II. Nevertheless, tantalizing reminders are easy to spy here and...
  11. David Conwill

    favorite cars of the golden era

    It is a Tatra and you can definitely see a similar design school in the Austin. The European version of the inverted bathtub that everyone in the 1940s thought was the wave of the future.
  13. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Yup. My '61 Falcon had a Rusteze bumper sticker (it needed it) and my '62 had a Dinoco oil-filter cover.
  14. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Recently on Shorpy there was a good in-context shot of this Sinclair station in downtown Durham, North Carolina, back in 1940.
  15. David Conwill

    Cooking Golden Era recipes

    @Just Jim that is an awesome story and it made me hungry! Joints like that are increasingly hard to find.
  16. David Conwill

    What are you snacking on?

    This is timely, as my middle daughter just picked up a 1952 "Italian Desserts" cook book at the free room of the dump and the first thing my wife said when she saw it was "ooh, we can make cannoli!"
  17. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    "There is no Texaco, only Guul..."
  19. David Conwill

    Cooking Golden Era recipes

    That's fun, Radiospector! Does the title "service cookbook" indicate this was the food prepared for the lunch counters?
  20. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    It's definitely a 1937-'38 MoPar, but whether it be Plymouth, Dodge, De Soto, or Chrysler, I can't see enough to say for certain.
  21. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    It's funny. I just Googled "Denver-style Texaco station" and found this story about a survivor (as of 2017) in Unionville, New York. What do I find at the bottom? Why a link back to this thread, of course!
  22. David Conwill

    Cooking Golden Era recipes

    We've had enormously good luck with what we just call "1937 Waffles" that come from a Philadelphia Cream Cheese magazine ad from, you guessed it, 1937. I've yet to actually make the cream-cheese sauce, but it sounds delicious. Also, I just pour this batter into our countertop waffle iron and it...
  23. David Conwill

    Vintage Cars

    I think it's the firing order, actually.

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