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This is my grandfather's 1949 Dodge B-1-B panel truck, taken in front of his grocery store on School Street in Norwich, Conn. This picture dates from about 1949 or 1950. View full size.
Judging from the Connecticut license plate: This was a black on silver 1951 Commercial truck plate with a green 1952 tab.
Hey tterrace, get the colorizers to colorize your father's grocery store.
Don't bemoan the exisence of only black-and-white shots. What are you waiting for?
...left without a concern for theft, is just like one I was pictured in. Thanks for reminding me of that ancient device.
More or less around this time, the 3-5 year-old me was wandering around my father's grocery store in San Francisco, gleeful that I could just pull anything off the shelf, take it to the back room and eat it. At this point a hazy but wonderful memory. How about you? Love the truck. My father's store, unfortunately, exists only in black-and-white.
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