Salem, New Hampshire, 1950s
The Old Motor recently dug up this Leslie Jones/Boston Public Library photo of the Rockingham Park parking lot, so no fair peeking at their comments before looking through the cars parked here to try...
The Old Motor recently dug up this Leslie Jones/Boston Public Library photo of the Rockingham Park parking lot, so no fair peeking at their comments before looking through the cars parked here to try...
While researching the origin of the postcard photo that Jim and Chester’s Garage posted above (Newfound Gap right on the Tennessee-North Carolina border just off Route 441 ), we came across plenty mo...
All those parking lot shots we run in this carspotting series with the cars so packed in tight you wonder how they get out the ones in the middle? This photo we came across on the University at Texas...
How far back is fair game for carspotting images? The loose answer: Far back enough for the cars not to be on the road now, still recent enough to inspire some nostalgia for the cars depicted within....
The most commonly circulated Publix grocery store photos circulating on the Internet show its art deco-ish facades and many-colored Fifties cars in the parking lot, something like this Sarasota shot ...
One more from Tom Simpson’s Disneyland opening series on Flickr – we considered combining it with yesterday’s shot from the lot, but considering the volume of cars here, it almost seemed like too muc...
Plenty of places have called themselves a Disneyland for car guys, but apparently the real Disneyland for car guys was at Disneyland itself way back on its grand opening in 1955 – that is, right outs...
True, we don’t do a lot of new car dealership photos in the carspotting series – not enough variety to keep the troops entertained – but used car dealerships are fair game, especially when they’re as...
Parade, maybe? Whatever captivated the attention of the folks in the background of this photo, which we found on Ross Dunn’s Flickrstream, it didn’t work so well on the photographer, who managed to t...
Man, ever since the Romulans started showing up, these carspotting photos started to get real difficult. Let’s press on regardless, though, with a pair of parking lot shots, above from photographer T...
From Alden Jewell comes perhaps the most jam-packed carspotting image we’ve had in a while, one sure to keep y’all busy for days to come, and one that we’re pretty sure we haven’t previously run. The...
Whoever it was that recently sent me an archive page dedicated to Esso gas stations in Norway – because we get submissions like that all the time! – thank you. Several of the photos on that page make...
We’re sure it’s no coincidence that Vintage Las Vegas posted two collections including shots of the Silver Slipper Saloon in quick succession recently, and as it just so happens both feature a decent...
While on the hunt for photos of his first Buick Apollo, Joe Essid came across a photo he thought would be of interest to our carspotters. Captioned only with “MGM Grand Hotel, Nevada, Oct. 1980” by h...
While poking around for more on the Lakewood Center photo that appeared in a recent LA-centric carspotting post, we came across this one and had to believe we’d already used it; the colors and the pa...
Howard Arbiture, fed up with all the Vegas, Los Angeles, Vermont, Hartford, and New York photos we’ve been running in the carspotting series, decided we needed some Milwaukee sprinkled in there, so h...
Thanks to reader Jack Shea, today’s carspotting comes rather close to the Hemmings backyard with a shot of Jumpin’ Jack’s Charcoal Pit and Twin-Freez in Scotia, about an hour away from Bennington. Lo...
Why two shots of coffee shops at night in the Fifties in the Los Angeles area (and both from the same Tumblog, Those Old Cars )? If we’re to believe everything we see in movies – and, naturally, we w...
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 1...
It’s been a few years, but we did mention Webb’s City in St. Petersburg once before, and today we’re going to carspot the carspotter, perched above the cars in the Webb’s City parking lot in search o...
Just up the road from yesterday’s shots in Swanton come this set of Northland Motors, a used car dealership and Esso station on Route 7 in St. Albans. They date to a month earlier than the Swanton ph...
Sure, the Vermont Landscape Change photo above, which dates to May 5, 1966, and depicts Kenneth and Irene Casey’s cattle farm sometime before Interstate 89 came through and apparently wiped it out, d...
From Jeff at Vintage Las Vegas comes a very un-Vegaslike photo because, unless there’s some casino owner preparing an old right-hand-drive car themed resort, it ain’t from Vegas. Instead, Jeff noted ...
We know the exact date of the full-size photo below – February 13, 1982 – and the exact location – the deck of the USS Enterprise. Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked came across the color version of the p...
Today’s pair of carspotting photos, which came from mybelair62 on Tumblr, come with no context, so we’re left with what we can see in the photos and our imaginations. So let’s start with what we can ...