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Period images to relieve some of the stress

Walt G

By Walt G
in Period Photos - Pre WWII

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8 hours ago, Dave Mellor NJ said:

I don't know why the black top and bottom come up

However the image was captured or scanned, the computer records it.  A square image recorded with a vertical portrait orientation will fill the top and bottom areas with what you see.  To clean up the image, a photo manipulation software in needed to crop away the extraneous.  A free basic shareware www.irfanview.com has about six-seven easy-to-use functions that can repair any image.  Its free and works great.

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Some early Palace of Transportation photos sure to excite some of you.

 

More courtesy of the St Louis Mo Library Collection.

 

Search Results - St. Louis Public Library Digital Collections Home

 

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View of baseball team. Jerseys read Freewheeling Studebaker and Hupmobile and Bussen Quarries. The Free Wheeling baseball team played in the St. Louis Municipal Baseball Association and the Mound City League in 1931. Members represented various car dealerships around the city. “Free wheeling” was an automobile feature that allowed the vehicle’s front wheels to disengage from the axel and roll freely, arguably to improve gas mileage.

 

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On 10/25/2024 at 10:25 PM, Fossil said:

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When was the last time you visited any car dealership that advertised "Expert horseshoeing" ? 

Very likely the blacksmith owned the place and was in a career evolution journey. But you know… he had to pay the bills, couldn’t ignore his past experience and also could give a hand in auto repairs! He was knowledgeable in using a hammer for sure!

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Take a minute to look beyond the neat cars at the structures that they are posed in front of. The great photo submitted by 30Dodgepanel had a dealership building for Naert- Nash.

Note the brick and tile work above the signs, the house at the extreme left with its curved window arches in brick and the cap along the top edge of the building . Craftsmanship that took time to complete and was designed with a pencil, and ruler, not a tap of a computer key. No aluminum frames, or plastic/vynil windows .  Commercial buildings used as stores to sell goods but designed with care and thought to be simple yet attractive and were not high maintenance when completed.

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