Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[skyway]

Wow, just noticed that Torque converter tool is a two-fer!

[skyway]

Ugh, that’s NUMBER 12044😬

[62champ]

Ft. Worth TV repair service - nice service fleet. Portals of Texas history website.

[Bob Andrews]

Standard Oil Service Station, 1356 Lake Dr SE at the southwest corner of Richard Terrace in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1949. Courtesy Grand Rapids Public Library:

[62champ]

Important individual (want to say local doctor, etc) with what looks to be a pretty new 1950 Landcruiser - on the side of the highway between Johnson City and Blanco, Texas - Portals of Texas History website.

[JGK 940]

If this were in California that could have been my grandfather. He commuted from Whittier, just east of Los Angeles, to China Lake Naval Weapons Station in his '50 Land Cruiser every week during my childhood, to maintain both his marriage and the air conditioning equipment at the desert installation. To the best of my knowledge it never let him down. When he died in 1970 my father sold the car for $150. I was fourteen at the time and didn't talk to the old man again until I moved out to join the Navy.

[JGK 940]

Can't find a Stude but couldn't pass up the chance to showcase a real world Packard Station Sedan - 22nd Series I think, but don't quote me.

[Silver Hawk 59]

Oh yeah... there is a car in that pic....

[Silver Hawk 59]

Here's a young (then) lady and her winning Studebaker Runabout:

[fpstude]

Ref. post 12052 that mentioned the Packard woody. The California Automobile Museum, Sacramento, California, has a late 40s Packard woody on display in a special display of woodies for the next couple months.

[StudeNewby]

Ref. post 12052 that mentioned the Packard woody. The California Automobile Museum, Sacramento, California, has a late 40s Packard woody on display in a special display of woodies for the next couple months.

For some reason, my post numbers are way lower than that. The number of your post is 11965 to me...?

[Warren Webb]

your post shows up here as # 12054

[StudeNewby]

So where are my 89 missing posts?

[Silver Hawk 59]

Lost in... the ozone... a-gain...

[StudeNewby]

Louisburg College, Louisburg, NC, late 1950's. It's a picture of a picture in the local Hardees...please pardon the glare!

[62champ]

Austin, Texas used car lot. Portals of Texas history website.

[Silver Hawk 59]

Here's a couple of interest:

[Buzzard]

Princeton, British Columbia, circa 1956

[Bob Andrews]

Would be nice to see it, but you posted such a small size I can’t make it out, and when I try to zoom, it’s blurry.

[62champ]

No AC mentioned, so I guess it is just heating and ventilating - February 1954, Austin, Texas - Portals of Texas History

[Buzzard]

Oliver, British Columbia, 1953

[Silver Hawk 59]

I can't see an Image???