Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[JRoberts]

[JRoberts]

[JRoberts]

Well, it is winter......

[JRoberts]

Yes,there is snow in the land of Oz.......



Go here for the story: http://stevew1945blog.com/travel-history/1960s/

[JRoberts]

[BRUCESTUDE]

Hopefully that's a strong enough chain holding those logs together!!!

[Don Kelstrom]

Gary remembers seeing one of these at Antique Auto Ranch in Spokane many years ago. Said it was HUGE. Too big for anybody to save.

[8E45E]

Said it was HUGE. Too big for anybody to save.

No such thing as 'Too big to save'!! http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...-29-1923-White http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...s-let-s-see-em!

Craig

[christophe]

A 57 Commander or Champion in the first row and a 52 sedan in the second row. From Hemmings Daily.

[aarrggh]

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Then and Now .

[aarrggh]

[Studebaker Wheel]

On the road with Mr Ed. c1963.

[kurtruk]

Yee haw!

[JRoberts]

I found this on the H.A.M.B. with no explanation. Thought it was interesting.....

[WinM1895]

Here is what you get when you click 'Image Information':

"In 1971 I was living in Los Angeles, running a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard for a friend, and taking photography classes at UCLA. I had a small house at the beach in Santa Monica and a darkroom in the garage out back.

In my spare time I'd walk the neighborhood taking pictures of what one of my professors calld 'the social landscape' Then I'd come home to develop my negatives and make prints.

My next-door neighbor was a commercial photographer. We talked pictures a lot. He had done some work for Westways, the LA magazine of the American Automobile Association. He introduced me to the assignment editor for the magazine.

At the gas station I had a Studebaker Lark cvonvertible that needed a part. The Studebaker dealership was just across town.

It was no secret that the Studebaker brand was going out of business and when I got there I could see why. It was a place lost in time. Mechanics, each with an apprentice, a dark garage with an upstairs lunchroom, well worn white coveralls and a million miles of tire tracks back and forth across the floor. I saw it all.

The editor at Westways had asked me for story ideas. The Frost and French Studebaker/Packard Dealership at 230 S. Western Avenue in Los Angeles California was my suggestion and I got the assignment."

Fixed it for you.

I was the parts guy at the counter, the manager...Bob Moss worked the warehouse where the parts that were purchased from the Studebaker Burlingame parts warehouse were stored.

1925/40: Frost & French originally was a Ford dealer with two locations: 5457 Crenshaw Blvd (now Adee plumbing) & 750 S. LaBrea (building demolished), both in L/A.

F&F took on Packard in 1940 after dumping Ford (it's a humorous story related to me by Frank French), Studebaker in 1957.