The car on the left was previously shown here. This is one of the two touring cars models Cadillac sold in 1919. Both models were on the same 125 inch wheelbase, but one had jump seats and sat seven instead of four passengers. Both were priced at $2,805, and the standard colors were Cadillac Blue with black trim. The dealer license plate indicates the car was being sold by Don Lee Cadillac shown here.

The second cars looks like a Convertible Victoria. The side window glass and center door post could be removed to create a semi-open car. This car was also on the 125 inch wheelbase and cost $3,205.

Are the two gents in the touring car twins?

Can't help but notice how worn the tires are on these apparently new vehicles. The front ones on the car on the right don't even match. I don't think that "optional" bumper on the coupe is really going to stop much. It's interesting to note that even on high end cars like Cadillacs there are rows of rivets along the edges of the hood. Auto designers today go out of their way to hide fasteners to the point it is sometimes difficult to figure out how to remove a piece for repair.

This is the definitive modelbuilder's reference for a board fence. They were common within my memory, and my wife remembers them too. You still see a few in old western PA towns.

Note that some kid dragged chalk the length of the fence.

Reproducing the faded "HORP" sign on the fence between the cars would be a modeling challenge.

That appears to be the message displayed within the diamond-shaped decal on the passenger side windshield.

What, pray tell, would be the meaning of that display?

[It's "Yes Good Roads," a slogan in support of a 1919 California ballot proposition for a $40,000,000 bond issue to fund state highway construction. It passed. -tterrace]

I always admired the top coat finish on these cars. A mirror finish not displayed these days.

Strange to see these two elegant, up-scale vehicles placed in a very humble neighborhood (with its ubiquitous chalk markings) as opposed to the previous auto portraits "uptown".

Are you sure this isn't Oakland? Those two beauties look like they're just about to try to merge, the hard way.

Not the most Cadillacky of neighborhoods.