Longtime reader and commenter Gene Herman found today’s carspotting photo over on the Old Images of Philadelphia Facebook page and with a little googling, we pegged the location as Market and Front S...
While narrowing down a location for one of last week’s Hartford carspotting scenes, we had help from a few other photos in the collection Joe Sokola provided us that showed some key overlap. For exam...
One could probably trace the entire length of the now-demolished Third Avenue El as it ran through the Bronx thanks to the photos in the Historic American Engineering Record – which, if you think abo...
So let’s burn through the rest of the Third Avenue El line photos from the Historic American Engineering Record over the next couple days. Above, the caption places the location at 183rd Street ; as ...
Let’s remain in the PNW for today’s carspotting scene, though we’ll have to give up aircraft carrier decks for this land-based scene in Olympia, presumably downtown, though we’ve yet to come across a...
Ronan Glon’s Ran When Parked has plenty more European carspotting gold in addition to yesterday’s two scenes from southeastern France, including these three from the touristy coastal Dutch town Schev...
Returning to Los Angeles for today’s carspotting exercise, just because we can use all the blue skies and colorful cars we can get here in the middle of winter. As opposed to yesterday’s somewhat ano...
Thanks to Hollywood, pretty much everywhere you look in Los Angeles, there’s some iconic landmark in view. But even without all those landmarks, the wide avenues full of towering palms and the blue s...
Whoever’s behind the MyBelAir62 Tumblog recently turned up a number of found photos from Virginia City, Nevada, where the neon might not be as bright as in Las Vegas, but the intent to capture touris...
We can’t resist coming back to Las Vegas’s Fremont Street – pre-enclosure – time and time again. Thanks to all the neons and the flashy signs that advertised the casinos and other establishments ther...
See? I’m perfectly capable of posting non-wintry street scenes during winter. Just take a look at these two additional photos from the Richfield Historical Society from the Sixties – above, dated 196...
I promise, today’s carspotting photo won’t kick off another week of snowy street scenes, but I can’t say that I won’t latch on to windows of wintry weather when I see them. So when perusing what we h...
At first blush, it may look as though every view of Barre in yesterday’s and today’s carspotting posts, which all came from the Vermont Landscape Change photo archive, depicts a different town, but t...
Ready for a little bit of carspotting overload? We stumbled on a set of photos from downtown Barre, all dated June 1974, all of the downtown park square area, all featuring plenty of traffic, in the ...
Since our recent posts on Route 66 and the alternate cross-country routes y’all suggested, we’re paying more attention to the old route marker signs, such as the three for U.S. 91, U.S. 93, and U.S. ...
Apparently the Avenue Bar, as seen in this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee photo that The Old Motor recently posted, still exists, but as the hotel bar for a national chain currently on the same co...
Could’ve sworn we previously ran these two images of San Francisco that Those Old Cars recently posted, but after a review of our voluminous (750-plus) carspotting archives, it appears not, so let’s ...
From the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page comes this probably not-so-silent night-ish view of Hollywood Boulevard looking east from the late 1940s. Even if we didn’t have the cars to confirm that er...
From the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page comes this probably not-so-silent night-ish view of Hollywood Boulevard looking east from the late 1940s 1952. Even if we didn’t have the cars to confirm th...
Like a car guy’s version of the yule log, we’re going to sit back and bask in the glow of this street scene from downtown Kansas City that The Oldie But Goodie recently dug up. Royals fans, feel free...
We have Hemmings Muscle Machines contributor Barry Kluczyk to thank for today’s carspotting image, one that shows downtown Detroit’s Washington Boulevard facing north, judging by the placement of the...
Continuing our dip into the Historic American Engineering Records overview of the Bronx’s Third Avenue El, we’ve got a look at either side of the 180th Street station, with cars parked on both sides ...
Spend enough time, and one could probably compile a complete set of photos of the Las Vegas strip from every month of every year in the latter half of the 20th century, all through individual tourist...
From Facebook reader Rich Kohr comes today’s carspotting photo, which depicts the former Rosensteel Museum in Gettysburg, sometime in the 1950s. Also known as the Round Top Museum, it appears the bui...
Before the onslaught of RC Cola, Logan’s Main Street had a lot more neon signs, as we can see from this photo from ElectroSpark’s Flickr stream, taken a about a block or two east and a quarter-centur...