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October 1956. Phenix City, Alabama. "Remodeled Palace Theatre." Me Tarzen, you Jene. (Also: "Praire.") 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
1901. "Washington Avenue and Post Office -- Ocean Springs, Mississippi." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, 1951. "Future Marines of America -- Juniors." The prospective jarheads last seen here. Acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1960. Our second look at John Holland's Texaco service station (and Midas Muffler shop, and "Official Georgia Tourist Welcome Station") on 13th Street. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
From circa 1960 Columbus, Georgia, comes this News Archive photo of a Midas Muffler Shop next to Holland's Texaco service. Fill 'er up with Su-Preme! 4x5 acetate negative. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1962. Our second look at the Martinique Motor Hotel, last seen here from different spatial and seasonal vantages. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
From Columbus, Georgia, circa 1957 comes this News Archive photo of a happy family on moving day. The twins are unpacked, and now all they have to do is find the box Junior is in. (This post brought to you by Loftin's Transfer & Storage.) 4x5 acetate negative. View full size.
Baltimore circa 1906. "The Calvert Building, Fayette and St. Paul Streets." Completed in 1901; demolished in 1971. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
July 1960. "David Brinkley and Chet Huntley -- NBC convention coverage. From NBC Television Audience Promotion." 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.
Chicago circa 1948. "Dr. Norman Vincent Peale." Celebrity clergyman whose 1948 page-turner, A Guide to Confident Living, was but a preface to his greatest hit, 1952's The Power of Positive Thinking. 4x5 acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1961. "Martinique Motor Hotel, Fourth Avenue." The New Frontier in Old Dixie. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
This circa 1958 candlelight candid offers a glimpse of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer city desk during a power outage. Start the presses! 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
Our annual salute to the start of vacation road-trip season, first posted here 15 years ago. Everyone buckled in? Let's go!
"Great Falls, Montana. Return after 3 weeks Vacation. June 27, 1964." This Kodachrome of a 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood station wagon is from a box of slides found on eBay. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1964. "Jaycees -- Golden Gloves physicals." The first rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1956. "Police cars at Muscogee County Jail." Let's be careful out there! 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.