Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since 2007. Explore now.
Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience.
Learn more.
Oakland, California, circa 1955, and another crepuscular rendezvous of vehicular violence. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.
Fairly commonly used word in our household. Our older daughter - who will be 26 next week - always complains, when she sees a deer in the neighborhood in broad daylight: "Deer are supposed to be crepuscular!" She's been doing that for 12 years or more. No surprise she majored in English in college.
I got the Ford right off but the other car had me baffled. I was leaning to a '48 Plymouth/Dodge but the extra styling edge on the front bumper nixed that. As my Mother used say, having grown up milking cows, "Now that my bag is easy, I can rest."
Grin
That was a 1949 Ford and a 1941 Oldsmobile before the merger.
I had always used the term crepuscular with the word "ray" attached to it - sunlight shining through holes in clouds creating sunbeams. I had to go look up its definition when used as a standalone word and found out that it means twilight. Thanks, I learned something new today.
It appears that the Ford tried to take a running leap into the grille of the opposition. Note the debris on the street: Looks like a pair of spectacles, a small screwdriver, pages from a book, and what might have been a hat. Under the Ford is a California license plate standing on its edge, as if posed there for the photographer.
Thank Dave. I learned a new word today. Doubt I'll ever use it though.
On Shorpy:
Today’s Top 5