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AutoPuzzles Today => Features, Stories and Photos => Featured Imagery => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on June 12, 2011, 07:58:58 AM
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A series of period photos of diners and drive-ins. I hope you'll add yours, too. The only requirement: There must be one or more automobiles pictured with the diner or drive-in.
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A few more
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Great pictures!
I thought it would be a cinch for me to find pictures for this topic: I have maybe five books about diners, with many drive-ins to boot. And I downloaded a few hundred photos where I supposed there were more... But no, almost no diner or drive-in on my hard drive. I would have to scan my books.
However: I saw that your first picture (a famous one by Russell Lee or another FSA photographer), showed a café!
So, although I am in favor of strictly sticking to the topic's definition, here are, exceptionally, a few pictures of cafés by the great Russell Lee.
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A few more, still by some FSA-OWI photographers.
EDI: I see that the Carl Mydans photo had already been posted by Otto. Well, you'll have it bigger...
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Great pics, Ray. :)
Cafe's are A-OK.
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Well, cafés are OK, you say, but I still found a few eateries.
First the restaurant of Union Station in Washington, which in 1938 has been, turned into a drive-in you'd say, for the presentation of the new Mercury.
And two night scenes.
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Wonderful evocative photos, thanks for showing them.....
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Where is the diner?
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Here.
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I'm getting hungry :)
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For that kind of topic with lots of images, my problem is my very slow connection - 608 kbits - like if I lived in the Gobi desert. I have time to trim my nails while a page opens.
Nevertheless, here are a few good ones.
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Here is a period article about The Track, featured in Otto's first post (Diner 2).
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And...
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Great stuff!
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Hot off the grill!
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So you got 94, huh?
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Hurrying towards page 2.
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They've got a lot of them at Life, don't they?
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I could get into postcards too, but...
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Here are some more:
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So, are banks and movie theatres allowed too?
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Restaurant / Auto combinations are the theme here.
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Here is a great 1975 picture by the guy who signs tterrace at Shorpy. It's almost only family pictures, taken by himself or his folks since the 1950's, but the whole family is quite talented. Look him up there: http://www.shorpy.com/tterrace
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;) Apparently, we got so excited by this topic, Otto, that we're re-posting the same pictures.
I had already posted (in the first page) your 107a, 110, 111.
And you may have re-posted (112,121,128) some of your own pictures from this first page. An Grobmotorix re-posted you... etc.
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I am so loving this thread!
:)
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"The years go by and time just seems to fly, but the memories remain" __ Daughtry __ 'September'
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Another dash of dining
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Aberdeen, South Dakota, 1940. A
car vehicle parked in front of an eating place. I think that this one fully qualifies.
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Well....
Since I can see the reflection of an automobile in the window above the Granger / Model sign, I'll allow it. ;)
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Well....
Since I can see the reflection of an automobile in the window above the Granger / Model sign, I'll allow it. ;)
Well, I concede that the car vehicle that I meant does have four wheels, but is not fully auto-mobile...
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It's all good :)
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Next pic: now it's the passenger and owner of the car whose reflexion is visible in the window!
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Next pic: now it's the passenger and owner of the car whose reflexion is visible in the window!
But no automobile. Sorry - this one is a miss. :-\
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I knew that. I just thought that the first picture could be feeling lonely withtout its sibling.
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Ames, Iowa... I remember the first time that you used a picture from the Ames Tribune...
The one with the Salvation Army is swell!
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Almost a year ago - you have a good memory!
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Well, I had spent a lot of time in vain on that one, and I still have that website bookmarked.
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A set of Italian roadhouses.
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And a few period German pics.
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:)
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Fresh from the internet today, a wartime picture taken in Oklahoma City.
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Love that style
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Noticed while rummaging through my folder of giant women's pictures.
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=4157.msg198563#msg198563
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That's quite a folder. Those Uniroyal girls ended up as spokes-statues for a lot of different products.
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Yep! Here are some more, fully dressed or less (sorry if this is out of the topic, but since you mentioned them...)
Ther is another WITH a Uniroyal tire, that I posted in My car is sooo light!
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=4157.msg198563#msg198563
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Serving up new batch...
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More (#18's unfortunate name is related to its location near an airport)
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Who's Hungry?
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23 more
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I remember Burger Chef.
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....and Jeff! :)
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A few more, to whet your appetite
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Another helping
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Gettin' hungry
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furthermore...
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and then...
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...which led to
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...which led to...
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Another serving
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Another heepin' helpin'
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Seconds...
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Thirds
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Bye for now!
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Two more paintings by french artist Alain Bertrand (see my other post in "Service, please!").
I met him long ago in old car meets. He drove a 1952 Olds, and his brother had a 1954 Mercury Monterey coupe just like me (I thought that mine was nicer, of course). He still keeps the Olds and many others in his backyard. He loves them all.
As a painter he is very good, in my opinion, and still getting better. His images are easily found on Google.
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I really like how he painted the falling rain in that second picture.
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A light snack
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Jollywood, Jollywood, chippa chippa chee chee...
Road food
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Tail of the pup.
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The problem with this kind of topic is that one can never be sure that the pics he's uploading aren't already there somewhere.
And my connection is too slow for me to check all the pages.
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No worries.
"Chicken in the Rough" ;D
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Market Cafe
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I'll see your five...and raise you one
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The fried chicken seems to be exceptionnally tasty at Youngblood's!
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Howdy!
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Howdy!
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I'm still hungry
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Time to stop for something to eat
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Feast on these, if you please.
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In the first pic, you must look beyond the hotel ;)
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Still hungry?
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Today's mixed grill
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A hurried man
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Celebrities again, and a hungry customer.
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Yum Yum
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Jack Delano 1943
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L.A. in color
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Not really a diner, not really a drive-in, but a memorable eating place.
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In 1907 there was a kind of drive-in for New York´s cabmen.
They obviously did not have to leave their cab to get their meals:
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Nice!
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I don't know if this food truck qualifies for this topic (if not, where else?)
But that sweet green Starfire in front of Pumperniks sure does.
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I'm hungry.
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Big tipper
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Not a diner, but a drive-in for sure (1949)
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Ballard Denny's near Seattle. Sold and demolished for a transit system that never happened.
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