Month: April 2017

route22ny:

Traffic is backed up at the Peace Bridge border crossing going into Canada at Peace Bridge in Buffalo, New York sometime in the 1950s.  Why the backup?  Are those pesky border agents demanding passwords and scrutinizing people’s private digital devices?  Oops, wrong country’s border agents (and wrong century).  But how about the air quality with that many idling midcentury behemoths spewing uncontrolled hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide all day?  Ah, simpler days…

Photos from the blog of Hemmings Motor News.

route22ny:

The neon of the Odeon Theater in Tucumcari, New Mexico captured at dusk by not1word on Panoramio.  The photo is undated but was uploaded in 2011; I can’t quite make out the movie name on the marquee.  Tucumcari is another well-known (”Tucumcari Tonite”) town on Route 66.

Update:  Consensus seems to be that the feature is Insidious, which would date this photo as 2010.  Thank you @waterman12053 and @wehadfacesthen!

route22ny:

prova275:

Pretty busy down at the Grand Union parking lot…

The heyday of suburbia, with the newest vehicle I see being the 1961 Chevy in the left foreground.  This place seemed immediately familiar to me, and for good reason:  decades later it still retained distinctive features from this view,–I often passed it in my work commute from 1996-2008. 

It’s the Cherrywood Shopping Center in Wantagh, Long Island, where Wantagh Avenue intersects with Jerusalem Avenue.  Below is a 2007 view of its signature sign, from Ben Dewrance on Flickr.  A recent Google street view is here.