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- Eyeball overload
- How arch this is!
- 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
- Automobiles
- Bumper cars
- Steering wheels
- Stuck In Time
- No longer standing
- The Disappearing Railroad Blues
- What's new?
- Starting with a bang
- Companion car
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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Air Dried Beef: 1958
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1958. "General view; east (front) elevation -- Beck-Care Warehouse, 18-20 South Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia." Details here. 5x7 inch acetate negative by Cervin Robinson for the Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.
Love That Chrysler Convertible on the Left
It's either a '57 or '58 (rear ends are virtually identical). I've always thought the Chryslers from this era were some of the best looking cars of their time.
[It's a 1957 New Yorker. Taillight lenses on the '58s were much shorter. -- Dave ]
Well, We're Waiting ...
... for the car folks to jump in here with a rundown of the autos parked out front. Even I can ID that sweet Chrysler ragtop on the left.
The Last Little Warehouse in Philly
This warehouse was built in the latter part of the 18th century on the Delaware River wharves. At earliest record it was owned by merchant Paul Beck and was under the tenancy of E. Beck and Philip Care (1796). The building was later the headquarters of Baugh & Sons Company, manufacturers of bone meal fertilizer since 1817. It served in this capacity from 1860 to 1954. By 1967 this had become the last surviving 18th century warehouse on the Philadelphia waterfront. In that year it was demolished for the right-of-way of the Delaware Expressway. -- Historic American Buildings Survey No. PA-1188
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