Mystery car pix

explorerx4

Carnegie built a lot of libraries across the country.

xwesx

explorerx4 said:

Carnegie built a lot of libraries across the country.

True. There's one in Conneaut (OH), now closed, as well, but it doesn't look anything like the library pictured.

explorerx4

Here's a list from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libraries_in_the_United_States

fintail

xwesx said:

I love the look of that library. Looks early 1900s design. The city hall (originally school) in my home town looks similar... without all the pomp.

The building still exists, replaced by another library in the 60s but even when it was fashionable to throw away old buildings, it was spared, now apparently a host to a few businesses:



This one is here in Spokane:



The one out on the coast where my mom lives is an arts and crafts style, not as imposing, rather, a hint of Frank Lloyd Wright or similar.

Michaell

Here's the Carnegie library in my hometown of Oxnard, CA

andys120

No one has id'd all of the non-Ford or Chevy cars in this one yet. There's a red/white Mercury coupe behind the '55 Ford exiting the lot. Behind the red '56 Chevy you can make out a green '49-'5 MoPar
The light gray car next to it might be a step-down Hudson. I can't ID the blue/white convertible behind the tree but I think it could be a '50 something Packard.

bhill2

I think the white over blue 'vert is a 55-6 Mercury.

explorerx4

@bhill2,
I agree about the blue and white car being a Mercury. It looks like the red one except the colors.

kyfdx

xwesx said:

I love the look of that library. Looks early 1900s design. The city hall (originally school) in my home town looks similar... without all the pomp.

That's pretty much the time frame for all of the Carnegie libraries, right?

xwesx

fintail said:

The building still exists, replaced by another library in the 60s but even when it was fashionable to throw away old buildings, it was spared, now apparently a host to a few businesses:

The one out on the coast where my mom lives is an arts and crafts style, not as imposing, rather, a hint of Frank Lloyd Wright or similar.

Thanks for that! I pulled up the photo that Wikipedia has on the Conneaut, OH, library, and it actually does look quite similar (particularly to the one in Spokane). I didn't realize that, because it faces away from the street I normally drive on right there, and I see the blander backside when I drive by it. I believe the building is for sale, and has been for a long time, but with 20ish years of neglect, I suspect it is destined for demolition rather than restoration.



https://www.starbeacon.com/news/local_news/former-carnegie-public-library-up-for-sale-again/article_bc68d56c-a8d3-52cc-9a81-5b61440ae6da.html

andys120

bhill2 said:

I think the white over blue 'vert is a 55-6 Mercury.

Looked at some pix of '55 Merc convertibles and I'm sure you're right.

fintail

Seattle, August 1961 - cars are small but zooms fine enough:

andys120

Right-'53-4 Chevrolet, Middle post 1958- VW Beetle

andys120

tmart

New Tesla roadster.

tmart

@fintail said:
Seattle, August 1961 - cars are small but zooms fine enough:

59 Chevy, 55 Ford wagon

andys120

tmart said:

New Tesla roadster.

Nope it's the old (2011)Tesla Roadster Sport, IIRC, the first Tesla car (based on the Lotus Elise).

explorerx4

Actually, 3 of them.

imidazol97

Thew blue Mercury convertible is a 1956. The 1955 has a discontinuous side chrome piece, that I've never liked. A school buddie's uncle had obe and he could spin the car around a front wheel on the gravel parking in the barnyard.
The red Mercury is a 1954, I believe.

bhill2

tmart said:

@fintail said:

Seattle, August 1961 - cars are small but zooms fine enough:

59 Chevy, 55 Ford wagon

I'll finish it off with the gold 60 Poncho at the lower right.

Lostwrench3

The birth of the Seattle Space Needle!

fintail

Seattle, mid 60s I guess, zooms fine:

explorerx4

On the left, a 57 Ford wagon.

andys120

In the middle- 1965 Plymouth, behind it a Chevy van perhaps the one based on the Corvair.

ab348

“Acres of Clams” is something you don’t hear every day.

Lostwrench3

ab348 said:

“Acres of Clams” is something you don’t hear every day.

Unless you are in the Seattle area.
Ivar's has been around since 1938.

ab348

Do they wholesale live/fresh clams or are they a restaurant?

bhill2

ab348 said:

Do they wholesale live/fresh clams or are they a restaurant?

Restaurant pushes the definition, call it a café. Ivar did have a terrific restaurant called "Ivar's Salmon House". Maybe the best salmon I have ever had. Probably still there even though Ivar likely isn't, since he was already pretty old 50 years ago.

ab348

Windsor, Ont., late 1959 or 1960. Zooms very well.

explorerx4

2 59 Fords, one at the service bay and the other 2 cars behind the Rambler.

tmart

Possible 52/54 Ford between the Rambler and 59 Ford. Falcon, Ford pick up truck, a VW Beetle.

magnette

@explorerx4

Carnegie built a large number of libraries in the UK too.

kyfdx

Wikipedia

A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and 25 others in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji.

fintail

In Windsor, maybe a 52 Ford parked on the street in the background between a 59 Ford and Falcon. Just above/beside the Beetle, a probably late prewar or early postwar car, possibly an intermediate GM.

bhill2

I would guess the picture is from 60. The Rambler is a 60 and has been around for long enough to have had its left rear fender replaced. Unless the owner was very unlucky with his shiny new car, of course.

texases

Or maybe that’s the (odd) color scheme of the taxi company.

bhill2

texases said:

Or maybe that’s the (odd) color scheme of the taxi company.

Intriguing thought, I've never seen a Rambler taxi, but why not?

andys120

xwesx

That looks a lot like a 1968 Buick Skylark. Knowing my knowledge, though.... it's not. LOL

stickguy

It’s a Chevelle SS (starting with the easy part!). I’ll guess it is a 1970. Can’t really read the side badge but 454?

kyfdx

"COWL INDUCTION"

stickguy

My favorite was the S/C Rambler with the big arrow pointing toward the hood scope and the word “in”

texases

How much smaller would the car auctions be without those, the Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes, and Hemi Cudas?

fintail

Must be around 1964, zooms fine:

stickguy

grey car is a Rambler.

tmart

Red is a 64 Ford Galaxie 500

texases

@stickguy said:
grey car is a Rambler.

You mean the American, green with white top? The grey car up front is a ‘64 Polara.

stickguy

Yes the further back white top one. Looks gray in my phone.

texases

Yeah mostly grey, little bit of green on mine.

gsemike

The white car is a tempest/le mans. Maybe a 64