Please help ID cars in old photo 1920s

[29pickhupp]

Hi All

This is a photo taken on Water street in my hometown. Can anyone identify the cars in the photo to give a time frame? The roof overhang/sunvisor looks similar to Hupps in the early to mid 20s. Any help or comments would be appreciated

Thanks, John

[oldford]

The one in front might be a 28 Reo, not sure...

Frank

[29pickhupp]

It looks like it could be a 28 REO. I googled 28 REO photos the do look the same to my untrained eye. Some photos have vertical louvers and some horizontal.

Thank you for reply, John

[keiser31]

Second car looks sort of like a DuPont.

[29pickhupp]

Thank you Old ford and Keiser. Greatly appreciated.

John

[Bud Tierney]

You have to be careful when using cars to establish a time, unless you mean just a general period...people kept cars longer then (not necessarily the relatively few who could buy new, but the large number who bought used and tended to baby them because it'd be a long time before they'd have the money to buy another, like my mother and father...

I don't have software to blow up pic clearly, but the dress of the people would be another way to establish a relative time...from what I can see they do seem to match the cars in this instance--late 20s, maybe early 30s (remember the Depression slowed car sales considerably)...

I assume you've checked City Directories to establish how long the hotel stayed in business; if it went out of business or had a name change that might help...