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San Francisco, 1927. "Hudson sedan, palace grounds." Car and driver both stylishly upholstered. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
The "palace" is almost certainly a corner of the circa 1919 De Young museum (before the concrete filigree decayed and then was removed in the late 1940s).
Here we see the fake-convertible look mimicked 40 years later by the obnoxious vinyl tops that proliferated on so many American cars. Like an athletic team jacket worn by an obese fifty-year-old, they fooled no one.
To borrow from the old Fisk ads, is it "Time to re-tire?"
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