Vintage shots from days gone by!

Got another big batch of high school yearbook stuff coming up; in the meantime here's a sampling since I found several photos of the same dealer during a five-year time span. This is in my old stomping grounds of San Gabriel, CA.
1958:

1959, adding a couple more lines:

1960, bye-bye Edsel:

1961, hello Comet plus new management:

And in 1963, auf wiedersehen to Taunus:

The signmaking business must have been pretty lucrative back then.
It was still an L-M dealer when I lived there in the 1990s. And today?

Dance studio.

 

^^^^^^Ernie Banks under the hood of the Valiant.

 

"Why no, Officer, I haven't been *hic* drinking!"



Oh, try using that slogan now!

 

Wow W.T. Grant.
I can remember sitting at the counter and ordering food back in the day.
Jimbo

 

The old Mt Hood Highway

 

Columbia River Gorge & Vista House from Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Viewpoint

 

1947-View of Los Angeles Street looking north. The large trees in the upper left are in the LA Plaza and across the street is the Vicente Lugo adobe

 

The Great Smokey Mountains

 

Yellowstone

 

Hollywood 1950's!

 

1938

 

Sears, Roebuck Department Store Spokane WA 1950s