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- More about the Revere House in the 19th century
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- A place for flowers
- Precarious history with a happy ending
- Pan Error
- Spectacular Photograph
- Whirring Mass
- Twin Coach Buses
- Asphalt's still there
- Lustful Practices > Gleet
- VD? KK!
- All the Best
- Banksy
- Palace theater? Gone.
- Seven-fingered Daniel
- Name on Building
- That stringy stuff
- Screw Machines
- Oh the Sound
- Scary and amazing
- Ouch!
- The antenna
- Stand your ground
- I'm out on the ledge but ...
- Old meets new
- Reckitt's Blue
- Don't jump !!
- There's a naked lady in one of those windows --
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Nash Palace: 1927
San Francisco circa 1927. "Nash sedan at Palace of Fine Arts." Topping the Shorpy Shortlist of Chic Chauffeurs. Photo by Christopher Helin. View full size.
Tires
The rear tires almost look like radials, The fronts have a different tread but even those seem to wrap around a bit. Not the flat G78-15's I had on cars right up into the 80's. That's a lot of car
Why San Francisco?
After years of observing Shorpy, I'm beginning to think that back in the day, new cars were only photographed in San Francisco.
Pre-Zerk Nash
The rear leaf spring front shackle grease fitting visible through the access hole in the rear door kick plate is probably a flat top Alemite, as Oscar U. Zerk wouldn't get around to patenting his eponymous fitting until January 1929.
Metal plates
What was the purpose of those plates beneath each door?
[Kick plates for getting the schmutz off your shoes. - Dave]
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