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- A Beautiful Machine
- Last appearence
- It's official.
- Olive Brand Sportswear
- I still have a grudge against Texaco
- No GPS?
- CFG Bank Arena
- Van Lines
- Closed Station?
- John Vachon
- Folding Chairs
- TEXAGO
- Fragi-lay
- Classy
- Passenger seat
- No tipping
- The two front doors
- The theme song
- You are correct Dave.
- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- Working all the live long day
- How do you stop slackers?
- It's [not] a Diamond T
- A Red Brown Truck
- Not Too Long a Long Walk
- What Tribe? Huh?
- Cheap labor
- No Mel Brooks fans?!?
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Custom Chassis: 1923
What with one 1920s car looking pretty much like the next, the enterprising automotive photographer had to juice things up as best he could. Here, for instance, we have the rake of sunlight and mysterious background obelisk as points of interest, sparking an artsy three-quarters view. Oh, and big headlights.
The Bay Area in 1923. "Peerless touring car." Fully equipped with two spares. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative from the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.
Very nice
I wish the headlights were not so obstructed as to get a better view. Wonderful body lines on that car.
Dagmars
Miss Peerless may have the advantage on the eyes, but her sense of balance is not on a par with her bumper partner. The blur in her hands shows she was still trying to establish it as the photo was taken.
Upon further investigation
I just realized there is a person in the driver's seat.
What sleek lines.
I'll take one! Oh heck, I'll take them both and the car too.
Yes Indeed!
I too noticed the large and lovely headlights and I think I'll leave it at that.
Prepared for off-road use
Obviously getting ready for an extended cross-country jaunt over roadless terrain - why else would you have two wenches on the front bumper?
Rolled stockimgs
I can only say that my dear Grandma wore rolled stockings to the end. That was in the 70s and she cut off pantyhose (L'eggs) to wear what she did when she came of age. She was the best!
I have a preference
But I don't want to be unkind. Let's just say I like the Peerless one.
Stockings
What was with the rolled down stockings back then? Were women not allowed to show their bare ankles or was it just the fashion?
Corporate Evolution (continued)
Peerless was one of the Three Ps of luxury motoring (along with Packard and Pierce-Arrow), but by 1932, the Cleveland manufacturer was addressing a vanishing clientele ... or, at least, a reluctant one.
Ever resourceful, the company's directors switched to making the next best thing: Carling Black Label beer and Red Cap Ale.
Hey Babe, check out my ...
The Column of Progress in its original, less lonely context.
Mysterious obelisk
We're in what is now San Francisco's Marina District, on what had been the grounds of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The obelisk is the Column of Progress, which had stood in the Court of Abundance, at about what's now the intersection of Beach Street and Cervantes Boulevard. It was finally torn down sometime in the mid- to late-1920s. Another survivor from this World's Fair, the Palace of Fine Arts, is off frame to the left; it stood deteriorating until 1964, when it was demolished to be replaced by the present reconstruction.
[Court of Abundance, indeed. I just knew tterrace would know! -Dave]
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