I always liked this photo....

[Midnight Palace]

...and thought I'd share it

 

[Miss Lucy June]

I like pictures like that too, especially since it's just an everyday picture that might have not been that interesting back then...but today it exudes a sort of magic.

 

[Dutch McCoy]

I LOVE THIS PHOTO! What do you know about it? What years is it, etc.?

Thank you for sharing it.

 

[The Reno Kid]

I can see a 1937 Ford and what appears to be a 1940 Buick (and a '39 or '40 LaSalle?). Looks like just before the war.

 

[panamag8or]

It's in Flushing, Michigan, a tiny burg west of Flint. Here is a pic of the same street today. The old hardware store and drugstore have the big awnings on the left. Sorry it's so small, but it was all I could find...

 

[Samsa]

Wow, I didn't even notice that it was labeled "Flushing" until it was just pointed out. I used to go to a church right near that town.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Left to Right . . .

First car is a '36 Chevrolet. The hood side trim gave it away.
Second car is a '37 Ford. I just know these.
Third car is a '34 Ford. Although, I had to make sure it wasn't a '33 or '34 Dodge.
*Fourth car - I may be wrong, but I'm guessing '39 LaSalle. Please see below.*
Fifth car is a '40 Buick. I only had to verify the year.

*Fourth car looks like a '39 LaSalle (it's not a '40 - grills on fender are different), but the headlights seem wrong and the central grill doesn't seem tall enough (could be the reflection, though). It almost looks like it could be a '39 Nash Kelvinator - the grill seems to lean forward like one - but those cars have square headlights mounted flush to the outside of the fenders. So, please see above.*

I love photos like these. Thanks, Midnight Palace. Keep 'em coming.


Lee
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Reno Kid got 2.5 out of 5.

 

[Flivver]

I believe the fourth car is a 1939 Oldsmobile.

 

[Midnight Palace]

I love photos like these. Thanks, Midnight Palace. Keep 'em coming.

My pleasure! I'll post any more that I come across

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Thanks for this! I love ordinary, street-scene and candid photos from the Victorians to the 40s, too! I have a whole folder on my HD devoted to them

 

[panamag8or]

Thanks for this! I love ordinary, street-scene and candid photos from the Victorians to the 40s, too! I have a whole folder on my HD devoted to them

Post some. Maybe we can find modern images and do a "then-and-now" kind of thing. I love that stuff.

 

[Nashoba]

Post some. Maybe we can find modern images and do a "then-and-now" kind of thing. I love that stuff.

seeing the then and now though sometimes makes me sad. Especially when they've bulldozed the 'then' to put in a crappy archetecturally boring 'now' strip mall...

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Post some. Maybe we can find modern images and do a "then-and-now" kind of thing. I love that stuff.

I just might! I love that stuff, too.
I have a book about South Jersey Movie Houses and it's always fun (but depressing) to see them in their glories in the 1930s and then ride past them today

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I Stand (Sit?) Corrected.

I believe the fourth car is a 1939 Oldsmobile.

Right you are, Flivver! I somehow missed that page while looking for it. Headlights, grill and everything. Perfect match!


Lee
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Thank you for correcting me.

 

[rockyj]

like it.

...and thought I'd share it

Wow old Philadelpia looks alot like old St.louis

 

[Flivver]

Right you are, Flivver! I somehow missed that page while looking for it. Headlights, grill and everything. Perfect match!



Lee
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Thank you for correcting me.

I'm kind of a fan of Oldsmobiles of this era (I guess it's really Oldsmobiles of ANY era). My parents had a 1940 Olds "66" Coupe when I was born.