Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[Dwain G.]

I'm gonna call it a '33 DeSoto

[BobPalma]

Look at all the station wagons!! Craig

'Good point, Craig; you got that right.

Of further interest might be that red and white Volkswagen window van. Since it was part of the southern California culture in 1964, you wonder if it became part of the later 60s counter-culture.

'Sure is a neat photo. BP

[spokejr]

Should be a lot more furrin' iron in a So. Cal. parking lot. This must be fake news

Hmm, I see a Bug, at least 1 Volks passenger van, a Volvo, and MGA...for `64 that's doing pretty good even for So Cal. Remember, this is Disneyland, a good many of those license plates were not gold on black California. And that lot was huge, if you haven't lost your car at least once there, you cannot say you got the full experience.

[willys54]

Thriftimart's were So.California based hence the Date Palm trees.............

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[RadioRoy]

It's a 1957 Chrysler Windsor.

Now, how about the little(?) convertible with the top up, directly below the word McCan on the shoe store? 'Can't identify that one. Any ideas? BP

Morris Minor?

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[BobPalma]

'Looks like someone was playing too hard at the Playdium, Dave! BP

[studegary]

I am amazed at the wide whitewall tires and full wheelcovers on an ambulance and also the one digit telephone number (easier than 911). ISTR, that 1954-1955 was when we got dial telephones.

[Skip Lackie]

I am amazed at the wide whitewall tires and full wheelcovers on an ambulance and also the one digit telephone number (easier than 911). ISTR, that 1954-1955 was when we got dial telephones.

Agree that most municipal ambulances always seem to be plain jane vehicles. But it seems like private ambulance companies and volunteer fire depts like to accessorize their equipment, and maybe always have.

Rotary dial phones have been in use for more than 100 years, but their introduction was gradual, from big cities to smaller towns. Phone numbers needed to have a certain number of digits (eg, 4 or 5) to make them effective, so the equipment would "know" that all of the digits had been dialed. Systems that only needed 100 or fewer numbers usually didn't bother to invest in the new equipment. When my home town converted to rotary dial equipment in the early 1950s, our phone number went from 609 to 0609. I still have a candlestick rotary dial phone that was made around 1925 for use in Chicago. it works fine on today's phone system.

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