Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[r1lark]

Seems like I remember this one from several years ago?

[r1lark]

The 1956 Minneapolis Auto show, apologize if this has been posted before:

[r1lark]

Looks like 1955 at the local Studebaker Dealer's service area! StudeRich, is this Frost & French?

[BobPalma]

That 1955 Packard Clipper hardtop in the foreground has to be either a Constellation or a Panama. The script below the rear quarter window looks like Constellation with the back half broken off! BP

[BobPalma]

The 1956 Minneapolis Auto show, apologize if this has been posted before:

'Looks like you have to literally step up to a Studebaker! BP

[BobPalma]

From the Sunday, March 7 Old Motor...back in the days when you saw mostly American-made cars in the nation's capital...days long-gone...I count at least five Studebakers among the two photos, so there's probably more! BP



Not in DC:

[Flashback]

In times past most all 2 lane blacktops in Alabama led to dirt roads.

[swvalcon]

Speedster in old fifties photo.

[BobPalma]

From the Sunday, February 14, 2021 Old Motor:







BP

[JRoberts]

I saw these Old Motor photos and thought that they should be on the forum. Thanks for posting them Bob.

[skyway]

Dress shoes & a beard in 1956.
...and Pacific Guano, to boot!

[Dwain G.]

I noticed those shoes too. My guess is "aspiring actor".

[52-fan]

As scuffed as the shoes are, they may be his old dress shoes being repurposed for work. I have no guess about the beard, but it is well kept.

[Commander Eddie]

The fifties were the Beatnik era and beards were not as uncommon as you think. They denoted a certain social and political ideology. It could also denote a "hip" wannabe. As for the shoes, if you weren't in leather or vinyl shoes about the only thing left were boots or "sneakers", which were not hip. Sneakers were for kids and teenage girls. I remember wearing Florsheim dress shoes for parking cars in Hollywood. They held up real well and were comfortable. Any other brand wore out in about 3 weeks because I was at a dead run most of the time.

[BobPalma]

Is that a Stude rear end on the left?

I believe so. BP