Well I, for one, am glad that someone figured out a probable location for this photo. I was about to spend my friday hiking up and down 10th street Northeast looking for similarities in the row houses.
Anyone up for submitting a street level photo of these row houses today?
Submitted by Logan Cardozo Shaw on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 7:04pm.
How about Tenth Street Baptist Church, 1000 R St NW? Why's DC not got Google Street View yet?! Can't we get a blow-up of the signage?
[By golly you're right. Click the image below. The car would be around where the X is, with the camera looking east across R at the rowhouses along 10th Street, which are still there. But the church building and streetcorner in the other photo seem to be long gone. - Dave]
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 4:36pm.
I have always been under the impression that chains were for snow and that they were less than useless with ice because one was more likely to slip. Guess the old tires behaved differently?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 3:16pm.
Note the covering used on the radiator and hood. Airflow could be restricted during the winter months for warmer running. This car looks like a Dodge but I can't be sure with the radiator covered.
Was wondering what that is in the lower right then remembered seeing it before on Shorpy. It's part of a light pole - street sign like the one on Minute Service No.5.
Maybe. The fence doesn't look damaged, the curb could have torn off the tire, or he hit the tree, or he wrapped it around a pole and that's part of it on the ground?
[There's more to come from this mishap. Stay tuned. - Dave]
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 1:43pm.
First off, I find it interesting that they had tire chains back then and despite having them on this particular car, they didn't prevent this mishap...must've been quite the icy streets that morning.
["Back then"? This was the heyday of the tire chain. There was probably a set of chains sold for every car in Northern climates. - Dave]
