History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

I like that everyone has a hat in these old pics. probably because not everyone had hot water or shampoo.

makes me wonder when people started wearing baseball caps. you don't see any in the old pics.

 

Bryco gas station located at the corner of Long and Garfield Streets, Columbus, Ohio, 1933. This was one of fourteen Bryco gas stations in Columbus. They were owned by African American businessman C. W. Bryant.

Ohio Historical Society

 

Exterior view of White Castle restaurant number 9 in Chicago, Illinois, April 14, 1937. Car is a 1935 Dodge,

Ohio Historical Society

 

I shower every day, and wear a hat almost as often. It was just an era where folks didn’t consider themselves fully dressed without headgear - largely because they spent a lot more time outside than we do now. Their suits were thicker, too.

Ball caps, outside of the baseball field, didn’t really start appearing on the heads of adults until well after WWII.

-Dave

 

More odd hats. Ladies love 'em. The lady in the car on the left has what appear to be something like pheasant feathers in hers, but the overall look is a bit viking. Car an underslung (Regal?). What held these on? Or were they just on there for show, when the car was at rest?

 

1937 Experimental CRAD (Crosley Radio Auto Division) with 18" rear track.

Experiments began at Crosley in late 1937 to build a small, low priced car to do for the automobile business what Crosley had done for radio. To open the curtain a little, the name of Crosley Radio Company was changed to just the Crosley Company and plans went forward on the car. Rumors of a Crosley car began to appear in newspapers through the last part of 1938.

 

The new Crosley car...Ohio..1939

 

Another gem from Shorpy. Parezo sold auto accessories and wireless apparatus, but I doubt when this was taken they offered any wireless products that were adapted for cars. Some home receiving sets did get adapted by owners for use in their cars, but those tended to be one-off retro fit jobs. A friend owns a '29 Packard that incorporated a Browning-Drake receiver at the time the car was built, and might be the first car to leave a US factory with a radio installed. The entire instrument panel was redesigned around the controls.

 

Walter P. Chrysler, posing next to a Chrysler Six, (circa 1924)

 

Chicago Auto Show...1941

 

Road Construction....1920

 

Removing Autos from the Train

 

Edison Record Store

 

A Farmer-Labor political poster atop an Automobile. Circa 1925

Minnesota Historical Society Photo

 

Argo Automobile in front of the Natural History Museum in. Washington D.C.

 

Andrew Murphy Hudson & Pontiac Service, Route 35 (Summer Street), Kennebunk, ME. Circa 1940

 

T6.....When I looked at your plane gas station I thought of this one, but it took me a while to find these. This one is called the Happy Landing and it was in LA. The inside of the plane has an office and the rest rooms....

 

By 1905 automobiles started coming to Bemidji, Minnesota. John Moberg drove his from Grand Forks, N.D. About the same time, Chad Jewett took two days to drive from Minneapolis Mn. via Sauk Center. Mn Walter Brooks, local banker, ordered his automobile to be sent by freight from the Michigan factory. There is a dispute as to whose automobile was first in town, but before the end of 1909 several gasoline carriages were being stuck on Bemidji sandy streets. State and County roads and highways were yet so bad that travel was not easy and railways continued as major passenger services keeping Bemidji residents in touch with the world beyond. The Red Lake Railroad disappeared with the sawmills and the original right-of-way became a gravel road

Picture supposedly shows an Automobile race between Moberg and Jewett in 1899 but I question that date.

 

The tow truck to end all tow trucks.....Big Bertha from somewhere in Upstate NY.

 

Here are two photos from Minn. Hist. Soc., where they had this to say: "John Moberg and Chad Jewitt racing automobiles at the Bemidji fairgrounds racetrack. Photograph Collection ca. 1905."

This date seems more realistic, but look closely at the guys hanging onto the sides of the cars. It's hard to detect motion, and believe the cars were at speed with those guys hanging on like that. But then, maybe they were really racing!

 

This guy had the right idea if his day was like ours: hot! A quiet smoke in the shade overlooking a lake. Maybe a T or plate expert can help us on the finer points.

 

Interested in a new Ford? These guys look like they can handle the paperwork in no time flat. They also look like they've sold a few in their time.

 

Wow! He does look like you!

 

Too hot here for a jacket like that!
I'll venture guesses that it's an '11 T with an ILL license....tough to see.

 

Kinda looks like they might be related to Bonnie & Clyde...in a business sorta way!

 

More well dressed folks, and a handsome Plymouth coupe.

 

A car load in a two cylinder Buick???.....

 

Nice looking '32 Chevy sedan in a rural setting.

 

And a '29 Chevy coupe in NY in 1937.