Why, yes, we have seen this intersection before – several times, in fact, but none of them as early as 1965, when this photo of downtown Barre was taken, according to the Vermont Landscape Change pro...
Just up the street from our last look at West Hartford comes this batch of street scenes from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us, showing a stretch of businesses along Farmington Avenue just east...
Rarely do we get context on the carspotting photos we dig up. Sometimes we can make pretty good guesses, and sometimes we don’t have a clue, but today’s overview of the intersection of Van Nuys and V...
Seen this photo floating around the Internet for a while before we finally decided to dig up the backstory. According to HABU.org, the SR-71 seen in the photo – serial number 17958 – was retired in e...
We’ve seen a little of the Hartford suburbs in the series of photos Joe Sokola sent us already, but a big batch toward the end takes us out to West Hartford, specifically a stretch along Farmington A...
The town of Montpelier seems a little less busy and less prosperous these days than when this postcard photo was taken sometime in the late Fifties. Indeed, a look at historical census records shows ...
Because I am cruel, I’m not bothering to wait until wintertime to run this carspotting photo from the Baltimore Sun ‘s Retro Baltimore Tumblog. According to the caption, it was taken in January of 19...
From the Queensland State Archives on Facebook comes today’s carspotting photo depicting what was then the Pacific Highway in Surfers Paradise. Today, it’s the Gold Coast Highway that runs through th...
Pair of Singapore photos today from the Flickr stream of Fotorus, who visited the island city-state in April of 1972. Above, we see Collyer Quay, which is hardly recognizable today, and below we see ...
To wrap up this week of European carspotting, let’s head over to The Netherlands with two photo postcards we came across on Flickr. Above, a look at Grote Markt – now car-less – and Sint Geertruidus ...
Not sure exactly where Porshce’s ad agency at the time shot this photo for an ad for the 911, so if anybody recognizes the bridge the Neun-Elf is on, let us know. In the meantime, there’s plenty of E...
After yesterday’s Paris carspotting exercise, we decided to stay in Europe and head over to Madrid, where this fairly well-circulated photo of Calle Gran Via was taken in 1956, showing quite the ecle...
Though he found it at a site dedicated to photos of cars in the Sixties, Ronan at Ran When Parked believes this photo of Paris’s Place de la Concorde dates to the late Fifties, and we’re not inclined...
Two old postcard photos for today’s carspotting scene, both from the big sky town of Kalispell, both of which we came across on William Bird’s Flickrstream. Above, we see the intersection of Main and...
As with all the street scenes collected by the Duke University Digital Libraries, these two from Phoenix focus on the outdoor advertising of the time and provide no date or location context. The typi...
No gas shortage in these two photos that Terry Koenig’s father took in August of 1958 and that The Old Motor recently published. Rather, the reason for the lines was the exact opposite: The Flying A ...
Two recent photos on Vintage Las Vegas not only show Fremont Street at night – not unusual in itself, given how spectacular Glitter Gulch looked once the sun went down – but show it almost exactly 10...
Unlike most of the Hartford photos in the collection supplied to us by Joe Sokola, today’s four come with a date – April of 1968 – and we can fairly easily determine the location as Bushnell Park (mu...
Based entirely on the license plates and the campaign posters for Gabriel Piemonte, we can say with certainty that these two photos which we came across on the Duke University Libraries Digital Colle...
Think back, back to the summer days of 2014, when we first ran a couple Vermont Landscape Change photos from Burlington’s North Avenue, showing an old dealership and a car-choked suburban-ish street....
Two shots of California that bookend the Eighties today. Above, from the Shorpy Fan Tumblog, a circa 1981 look north along Hyde Street in San Francisco with Alcatraz in the background, an iconic cabl...
The collection of Hartford photos that Joe Sokola provided us included a few from New York City, and given the lack of additional context, we have to assume that our regular Hartford photographer too...
The first two of today’s carspotting scenes from Seventies Bologna come from Impounded and appear to have been scanned from postcards, but the resolution is still good enough for identifying the vari...
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage constructio...
Also while clearing out old bookmarks, we came across a few Charles W. Cushman photos we haven’t yet used in our carspotting series, including these two from Colorado Springs. Above, we see the Antle...