Studes in Roadside Americana photos

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[r1lark]

If this car was supposed to be a 60 then why does it have the Studebaker name that was used on the 59's? Are my eyes deceiving me- the wipers look to be parallel wiper setup too. I remember my parents having a cooler just like that one. Too bad the girls didn't come with it!

If this car is indeed the 1960 Lark hardtop prototype that Ed Reynolds referred to (and then used to prototype the Skytop installation)......I would not trust things like trim items, placement of trim items, etc.

[JRoberts]

Some more from British Columbia:

[Commander Eddie]

Is that a Stude coming at us?

It does look like a '41. Also, 3 lanes over is a Stude going the other way.

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[Bob Andrews]

Wallula basin, Walla Walla, WA, May 1959:

[dictator27]

Wow, did they do Nuclear testing in that neighborhood or what?
The Blue & White Car in the far distance looks like a '65 Sports Sedan! The camera man's?

A real, late '55 2 Door Sedan in Regal Trim with most of the trim, very rare!

Re the picture in posts 1804 and 1811. It does rather look like a bomb hit it, doesn't it? That is Vancouver's downtown east side (the DTES) probably in the middle/late 1960's. Many of the buildings in that area were bulldozed by the city council of the day because they were old by Vancouver standards (1890's, early 1900's - Vancouver was incorporated in 1886), unsightly, poorly built - probably true - a fire hazard - also probably true - and had no heritage value which was mostly true. It was also an attempt to get rid of hippies, druggies, vagrants and squatters which was only partially successful. The DTES was then, and still is Canada's poorest postal code and is right next door to Canada's wealthiest postal code. Although the area in the picture has been built up again, the druggies, drunks and vagrants are still there and it is home to low income immigrants who can't speak English. At one school in the area, it was estimated that there were over 230 distinct languages being spoken. One resident of the area was Jimmy Hendrix's grandmother.

The car in the background? A 1960 Austin Westminster sedan in probably the most popular two tone colour scheme, a very light grey upper over a seafoam green lower.

Terry

[davepink53]

One of our favorite times of the year shown here in the early 1960's looking at the Christmas lights at Boans Murray Street Perth Australia.

[JRoberts]

These may have been posted somewhere on this forum previously but do not remember or find them in a search.

[JRoberts]

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[Studedude]