And a fairly rare one -- a 1941 Series Sixty-Two Four-Passenger Coupe. Original price $1,505 when average household annual income was $1,750! Looks like only 1,900 of this model were built.

-- it was Barzini all the while."

Isn't that Sonny Corleone going through the toll booth?

Reminds me of the toll booth where Sonny Corleone got whacked. Even the car is the same style and vintage more or less. Great, now I've got the Godfather theme stuck in my head.

For decades when I drove down to NYC from Montreal I’d be annoyed by the toll booths (the slowing down, the line, the wait) although I did actually enjoy throwing the handful of change into the toll maw. (Either that or picking up a ticket and paying for the whole thing at the end.) Now I do nothing and I magically receive an invoice in the mail (yes, even up here in Canada). It’s quicker and more efficient, but I do miss the flinging of the coins.

Until 1950, Carlisle was the eastern end of the PA Turnpike.

The first limited-access long-range highway in the U.S,, the Pennsylvania Turnpike became the prototype for the Interstate Highway System, authorized in 1956. (Actually an earlier prototype was the German autobahn, which Hitler enthusiastically championed.)

The authorizing legislation for the U.S. interstates stipulated that the highways were not to have tolls--with one key exception: any existing toll highway could maintain tolls when it was incorporated into the national system. Thus Pennsylvania has continued to charge drivers on I-76 for six decades and counting. (The toll booths are still there, but you don't have to stop, since your E-Z Pass or a Toll-by-Plate photo will get you.)

It's also significant that Rothstein photographed the Turnpike for the OWI. Potential military use of controlled-access highways was always in mind (as it was for Hitler). The 1956 enabling legislation was called the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, and the entire system is now named for President (and WWII hero) Dwight D. Eisenhower.