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Perhaps that is Will Rogers wearing the chaps.

Walt, your comments about the toll and toll collector are interesting. Regarding the 15 cent toll, perhaps there was enough traffic that supported the operation. I do remember a time when my brother and I pooled 25 cents to put a little gas for his car so that we could get to work before payday. I remember the attendant at the gas station: "How much you want?" My brother: "Twenty-five cents please." That's a time that became a memory. 😁 While today it costs a $72 American dollars nightmare to fill the tank on my truck. 😩

Looks like a 15 or 16 Oldsmobile. ? Two running boards and a driver's side door against the two levers. Not sure I understand what is going on with that engineered design. But as Wall mentioned, it is pretty cool.

Yes, his shoes are not spit shined (which is a little distressing), but even though his class B's need pressing at least he has a straight gig line. He might have been Air Force rather than Army. 😂

This is an interesting photo. The dairy driver/delivery man appears to be ex-military. His military belt buckle is worn in true G.I. style, exactly as we had to wear them (Army). Note the buckle has two rounded edges, with the left edge (right as we see it) exactly in line with the brass metal tab of the end of the woven belt. It is nice to see that he kept his brass polished.

Regarding this '33 Buick. If General Motors, Buick division still produced this car at a reasonable modern automobile price, having modern automotive and safety equipment, would you buy this car and use it as a daily driver?

Back when respect for the police was common. What year Pierce-Arrow is it?

Meeting the president in the 1930s with two pitch forks in hand. That probably won't happen today.

Gary, you are correct about the "PFD" or "FPD" on the hood of the fire truck. It is not easy to see it. On the left rear corner of the truck's body there is a panel with the intertwined letters FPD. The display of the letters kind of gets into the discipline of heraldry. The close-up photo of the panel shows a bold letter "P" in the center surmounting the smaller and subordinate letters "F" and "D". The letters "F" and "D" stand for "Fire" and "Department". The stylized letter "P" has to stand for the name of the town or city, and of course unknown city "P" is definitely not Culver City, California. Some years ago I studied heraldry in order to decipher heraldic coats of arms on antique Czarist Russian and also German chinaware. It is interesting that the side of the truck's body says "Bureau of Fire" rather than "Fire Department", and that the ornate cartouche panel shows letters F P D. One who think, to be consistent terminology, that the cartouche panel should have been F P B -- Fire P Bureau. Unknown city "P", most probably a bit of it is in the background of the photo, may be somewhere "back East" from California, possibly Philadelphia?

The headlights are unique. The photos available to me show the 1918 model and the 1920 model with ordinary drum headlights, but the headlights in this photo seem to be unique to the year 1919. Is that true?

Canadian promotion to open up western Canada. The vehicle appears to be electric driven but the electric motor or motors is not obvious. However, the vehicle appears to be equipped with gear-drive hubs at the wheels; four-wheel drive. There are articles about gear-drive hubs for heavy trucks in that time period but those where shaft drive from a gasoline engine to a differential, thence shaft drives to the gear-driven wheel hubs (two-wheel drive).

Great looking Ruxton with a little bling on the front end. Is the lady an actress?

This photo was posted several pages back. What is this brand of automobile, and what is the purpose for the suicide seat that appears permanently mounted on the right running board, while the left-side passenger seat is not occupied? Suicide seats as used on the Kissel and Stutz slide out from the body, unfolded and were not permanently fixed. Perhaps the seat on this car actually folds out of the way somehow that it is not obvious.

Normally a funeral equates to a black armband. The white armband possibly suggests political, some sort of community ceremony, maybe a birthday of a person/benevolent organization/movement. The man in the back seat wearing the black bowler - his corsage has a decoration suspending from the flower. The flower resembles a mum.

This is an interesting photo that begs observations, comments and questions. Regarding the automobile, there are no headlamps nor any supports for such lamps. Beside the vacant left front seat there is an oval shaped opening looking looking like an air scoop. Is the purpose of that for storage of something? There is no step plate and apparently no door for the rear seat passengers on the left side of this car suggesting that passengers could only enter and exit by the right side. The car has no top and apparently has no provision for a folding top. Obviously the day is wet and one pedestrian has an umbrella. The visual information taken together, with the expensive automobile sitting in the rain, how long does the leather upholstery survive under that abuse? Between the second and third man at the left of the photo there is a woven metal cage around a young tree. The cage looks to be about 6 1/2 or 7 feet tall and maybe 15 inches in diameter. That is puzzling. Here in southwest Colorado we put wire cages around young trees and bushes to prevent damage by mule deer and elk. Last year a rutting 10-point buck broke the top half off one of my pine trees and carried it away in his antlers.

No, the plate in the photo was not on the dash panel. It was simply a "Chrysler" in script form, a real simple. The plate in this photo I have never seen until now. The "Chrysler" script applique on my Chrysler was on the dash panel right about where a glove box door would have been, but there was no glove box nor door.

1924 Chevrolet photographed at my old home place. The wash line posts in the background are from the frame of my grandfather's Studebaker.

A note on the back of this photo says the car is a Willys.

A 1922 Nash touring car. I knew the old guy who owned the Nash. His "work" vehicle was a Pontiac roadster modified into a pickup; must have been about a 1929 model year.

An old 1936 print of a basket case 1925 Chrysler I owned years ago. On the right side dashboard was a Chrysler metal script while there were also Maxwell body parts in the car.

Have been digging through a box of old family photos. Found Uncle George and his 1931 Chevrolet. The reason the passenger door looks shiny and new while the rest of the car's paint needs TLC, he had the car in a lumber yard in St. Cloud, Minnesota and a person backed into his Chevy with a load of lumber. A sane man did not sit and drink beer with this guy!

The headlights say Pierce-Arrow while the photo of this car is new to me. What year and model is it?

Wow, I have seen gray hair old people who can't see over the steering wheel, but the lady looks way too young. What is the story on the transmission housing architecture beneath her legs? There is a prominent metal rectangular plate with a depressed center and two large round knobs, one of which is on top of a shaft.

Wow, a chain drive brass Model T. Very rare model; not something one usually sees at a Con-Coors event in Colorado. But it is not a cool as speedster with a dirigible propeller, when the driver can feel the wind in his hair as he drives.

The workman standing beside the car is wearing a particular type of visor cap that reminds of laborers in southern France and northern Italy. The style of the cap is similar to the "Greek fisherman's" cap, except the visor is too long. It appears that the workman and another person in the background are involved in road work. There is a peculiar, tall metal bucket sitting on top of the apparent road surfacing material at the right side of the road. A bucket like that is generally is carried two or four on a donkey's A-frame. Such a bucket could be used to transport nuts and that could possibly mean the large trees are part of a walnut grove. The location could be France or northern Italy.