Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[qsanford]

Thanks for the info. Victim of Urban Renewal 1967. R.I.P. Spaulding Building.

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Well ; That is Portland Oregon , 1st Avenue & Clay Street , Spaulding Building
If i lived there i`d drag my stude down there for an after pic .........

[Dwain G.]

The background building in #2203 is outstanding as well. I wonder if it still stands somewhere? One ground floor sign says Portland Die & Stamping-Hmmm Maine or Oregon? <G>

Portland (Oregon) Die and Stamping is still going strong, but in a newer, bigger location. The old 1883 Spaulding building, the whole block in fact, went down in 1967-8

[JRoberts]

Dirt roads count don't they?



The Chuckwagon, evolved from a US Army surplus Studebaker wagon, invented by Charles Goodnight, 1866

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No toys here ............ ahhhh

[JRoberts]

No toys here ............ ahhhh

I don't know. Are you absolutely sure those are not models of real cars and trucks?

[JRoberts]

I found this on the H.A.M.B. with the following explanation:
"Going through some old photographs the other day I ran across this picture I took of my Uncle Vernon in 1960 with his '51 Studebaker. It's not very pretty, and the gas station sign on the door doesn't help, but it was really fast for its time. It held the E stock strip record at the local drag strip and sometimes he would run it in D stock just for the hell of it and usually won that, too. Notice the 4 trophies lined up on the hood in the picture. This is the car I learned to drag race in when I was about 15."

[kurtruk]

Linen postcard. Guntersville, Al. That's a Studebaker dealer in the white building. A 2r truck under the Pure Oil sign, and a red postwar Stude at the curb.

[Bob Andrews]

From Facebook. Probably posted previously.

[Bob Andrews]

Another Facebook photo. Wonder why there were new Mercs to the right?

[Bob Andrews]

One more, even though I'm not sure they really fit the theme of the thread:

[BobPalma]

Another Facebook photo. Wonder why there were new Mercs to the right?

Bob, that photo is outside the Hamilton Assembly plant.

That might be some type of marshalling yard for Ontario-assembled cars being sent to the United States, which could include other makes such as the 1964 Mercurys.

Alan Jackson would approve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T3MgIRUwj0

('Always loved that song....) BP

[2R5]

BA , you will notice the fence , that is the end of the Studebaker property . That is a loading lot not Studebaker land , it is a kids playground today .

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[JRoberts]

[JRoberts]