Need location of photo circa 1940/41.

[K8096]

The only thing that remains is the 3 story building.    

 

 

 

[mike6024]

This was shaping up to be a good detective mystery that might have been solved by searching for the address of "Sam's Variety" but instead I had to go and ruin it by cheating.

[mike6024]

OK I looked at street view and didn't recognize anything, but yes that 3 story building looks the same.

[mike6024]

I like the delivery truck. Wish we could see all of it.

 

[Bloo]

7 minutes ago, mike6024 said:

This was shaping up to be a good detective mystery that might have been solved by searching for the address of "Sam's Variety" but instead I had to go and ruin it by cheating.

OK I'll bite. How did you find it?

 

 

[mike6024]

AJ mentioned it on the previous page.

 

 

[TAKerry]

Question for the OP, is this an original photo you purchased or a print copy?  After reading the story of the photographer I would think the value has just gone up, LOL. 

[K8096]

17 minutes ago, TAKerry said:

Question for the OP, is this an original photo you purchased or a print copy?  After reading the story of the photographer I would think the value has just gone up, LOL. 

 Just a print copy.  If you click the one link Mike6024 posted you can still buy them.   I just ordered the side view of the same car.   My guess is some of the photos on the website are from his personal collection.   He took a couple shots of each car he owned.  Most with his girlfriend. 

[K8096]

If the street had looked the same today, I would have tempted to drive the 110 miles or so one way and taken the same shot with my car in the Spring.   
 

 

 

[mike6024]

I did a search of "Charles Teenie Harris Cadillac" to see what pictures of his cars came up, etc. Got to see lots. He had a '37 I guess, before the newer one.

 

Front end of Charles “Teenie” Harris’s 1937 Cadillac Fleetwood car parked in front of his house on Mulford Street, Homewood

1940 Cadillac car, possibly belonging to Charles “Teenie” Harris, parked in front of wooded area, with house with screened in porch on right

CreatorCharles “Teenie” Harris, Two Cadillac mechanics working on underside of car in garage

1938 Cadillac car belonging to Charles “Teenie” Harris, in driveway of William “Woogie” Harris' house with lawn stork and gazing ball, Frankstown Road, Penn Hills

CMOA Collection - Carnegie Museum of Art, 1937 Cadillac convertible car, possibly belonging to Charles “Teenie” Harris, parked on Centre Avenue in front of Dr. J. E

Charles “Teenie” Harris holding camera, in front of his 1940 Cadillac car, with another man on right, in empty field

 

 

[1937hd45]

Mr. Harris was a skilled photographer, the car in the first photo that started this thread almost looked like it was photoshopped to the street scene. Hope more of his work turns up. Bob 

[K8096]

My print of the side view of the car came today.   

[K8096]

I guess the car was a few years old when the photos were taken after all.  Looks like he skimmed the side of his garage damaging the fender trim.  The bottom stainless piece on the front fender is held on with 5 dark colored screws, and the top & bottom trim is missing off the rear fender rubber stone guard.  If only his driving skills were as good as his photography.    

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[mike6024]

Nice. You've got your brick roadway, brick buildings and the big shiny car. And some snow too.

[mike6024]

(This wreck taken by his assistant, Photo taken by Mr. Dewey Smith, Harris's assistant. This shot of a wrecked 1951 Cadillac, Series 62 four-door sedan may have been taken for an insurance company.)

Charles “Teenie” Harris; Charles “Teenie” Harris’s Cadillac going through automated car wash, c. 1950;

Charles “Teenie” Harris; Two young women inflating car tire tube with hand pump, c. 1940-1945;

[mike6024]

1938 Cadillac car belonging to Charles 'Teenie' Harris, in driveway of William 'Woogie' Harris' house, Frankstown Road, Penn Hills, Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, 1940.

 

 

208 page book of his work is available

 

https://www.amazon.com/Teenie-Harris-Photographer-Memory-History/dp/0822961741/ref=asc_df_0822961741

 

The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. In jazz clubs, Little League games, beauty contests, church functions, boxing matches, political events, protest marches, and everyday scenes, Teenie Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh.
Harris’s career began as America emerged from the Great Depression and ended after the civil rights movement. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential black newspapers, Teenie hit the streets to record historic events and the people who lived them. The archive of Harris’s photography, part of the permanent collection of Carnegie Museum of Art, represents one of the most important documentations of twentieth-century African Americans and their communities. Today, even as Teenie Harris’s photography stands alongside that of Harlem’s famed James VanDerZee, his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America.

 

...A lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Harris showed us how people and place mattered. His creative eye chronicled a vibrant black community, from its early days as a destination for migrants to its crucial civil rights and black power activism. Harris’ photos ultimately tell the story of the heritage of modern black migrations and the world they made. He recovers the cultural effluence and influence of industrial life in the Steel City and joins artist Romare Bearden and playwright August Wilson in shedding light on the unexpected, significant, and joyous details of our urban beauty.”
—Kellie Jones, Columbia University

 

 

[K8096]

That’s a rare car.  1942 Cadillac convertible.  One of 300 built.  

 

 

[mike6024]

Bandleader and musician Billy Eckstine, Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993)[1] was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing era. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice

 

Billy Eckstine wearing cap and sunglasses, seated in light colored Cadillac convertible car, with building in background

Charles “Teenie” Harris, June 1947

 

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[mike6024]

 

Members of Debs About Town, 1939

 

Boxer Joe Louis

https://storyboard.cmoa.org/2015/12/dreaming-of-cadillacs-in-times-of-violence-and-disregard/