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- Telephone distribution rings
- Eye in the sky
- Hill no
- Camera Location and 1907 Date
- I thought that too, at first
- Shades of the '50s
- Navy Blue
- After 1906
- getting the fish-eye by the seaside
- Monoculture
- In the Navy
- My Beach....My Sand
- Frankly Cross
- You Said There Would Be Ice Cream
- Big, widow mansion
- Delight??? Really?
- They don't Vanderbilt them like they used to ...
- Choosing Style Over Comfort
- Scared Stiff
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- Stuck In Time
- No longer standing
- The Disappearing Railroad Blues
- What's new?
- Starting with a bang
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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Truck Check: 1943
February 1943. "New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on Twenty-Third Street. Mechanic checking the motor of a transport truck." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
V for Victory!
Befitting a truck in wartime, the bumper carries a V for victory. But the Morse code is backwards -- designed to be seen in rearview mirrors, or simply an error?
Keep on truckin'
According to Autocar's website, they built the first truck in the United States -- in 1899.
Stuy Town/Peter Cooper village
I believe the street sign at the intersection says 1st Ave, which means we are looking West from what today is the northeast corner of Stuy Town/Peter Cooper Village.
[Actually that's 11th Avenue at the intersection with West 23rd, near the Chelsea Piers. The building that housed the Terminal Hotel is still there. The Associated Trucking building, on the current site of Hudson River Chelsea Waterside Park, is long gone. -- Dave]
Wartime Tire Shortage ... But?
Those front (steering) tires look like there is no tread on them -- which would be much more likely to hydroplane when the road has any depth of rainwater. Maybe swap some of the rear tires to the front?
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