Good place for pics of storefronts?

[Roothawg]

Loking for pics of 30's era storefronts. General stores, Mainstreet USA type of stuff. Any good historical sites out there?

[Big A]

Walker Evans. He shot mainstream USA for 50 years. There are some great books of his work out there, don't know about sites.

[Roothawg]

Big A, thanks. I checked it out. Any other ideas?

[Big A]

Library of Congress...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

[DrJ]

You looking for a photo site to take a car to or just a typical store front to copy on your "Garagemajal"?
Just off the top of my head Id say you wold want a look like is around Salinas, CA.
Reason being, is, in the thirties lots of people left OK to go to CA and farm communities.
Places like Monterey or Folsom or Nevada City are 1850's gold rush looking buildings so that's too old for what you want.
Cities that were greatly expanded and mostly new construction in the thirties is what you want.

Maybe Cole knows of an unchanged, typical thirties store in Salinas?

I was there last year and know the main drag is/has been "Rejuvinated" so it's not "real" anymore but there's some business streets there just off the main drag that might be what you are looking for.

[gofast62]

a little town 12 niles south of here "milton n.c." looks like bonnie an clyde are ready to drive thru.

[derelict]

There are still some towns here in the Central Valley of California that look like time forgot them. Chowchilla is one I drove through for the first time about a month ago. Prior to that I just drove by on 99. Still looks pretty much like it must have in the 50's. There's even an old cotton mill there from the thirties. Neuman and Gustine are some others that come to mind. Even some parts of Bakersfield and Stockton are like that. Spend a little time off the main highways here in California and you can feel like you're in a time warp.

[Junkyard Dog 32]

Try looking at postcards on Ebay.

Search various towns, years, use words like city street.
Lots of good images on Ebay.

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[av8]

Head South for the border and Burkburnett, Texas. It was very quaint and old-timey in the early '60s and didn't look as though it would change much in the forseeable future, as in not ever.

[Tman]

Root, sounds like you and I are in the same place in planning our dream shop/house. Carla and I are slaving over every little detail to truly make the place something special. We have a cool car dealership bldg here that was built in 26. I think it might have the look you are after, I will try to snap a digi for you.

[Roothawg]

That would be cool T. Thanks

[cole]

down the road is spreckel's like the sugar co. on the corver is a red and white store and a post office, its 100% left alone.

[RocketDaemon]

http://hazardkentucky.com/1930_40.htm

here is a site i first found like 2-4 years ago

some real nice photos, even if you maybe wont find just what you want there is alot fun stuff to look at
but werll there are pics of store fronts aswell as alot of other stuff so i bet you find something u like atleast...

and the 40-50ies section is fun aswell