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Love these old pictures~

Okay. Ill start with the easy ones Right to left: Packard ( like it says! ) Chevrolet ? Studebaker ( again, like it says ! ) And ...Buick?

Andy If you use the Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19107 link to the left, the radiator reads Stutz, and I think it's the 1915 Bulldog. www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z16887/Stutz-Model-4F.aspx The cars also have big L's and pennants and signage for the Lincoln Highway, a project for a coast to coast highway. This trip's official title was the Lincoln Highway Motion Picture Film Caravan. Here is a short description of the trip these cars are beginning: "The Lincoln Highway Association also arranged a tour to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The primarypurpose was to make a motion picture of the road as part of the association’s campaign to keep the public interested in the highway. The tour began in New York on May 15, 1915, and reached San Francisco at the end of August. According to the association’s official history: Everywhere elaborate preparations were made to show each city at its best . . . . Automobile parades, scenes of road improvement, dedications of bridges and of newly constructed sections of highway, processions of school-children, every sort of function, celebration and activity connected and unconnected with highway building was arranged for them to photograph. The association, in fact, had to ask communities to replace the fire and police displays with “scenes having a real interest, scenes tending to make it safe, easy, and pleasant to come your way and call on you.” Between cities, the party busied itself taking photographs of scenery, historic sites, road construction, maintenance, improvement, and anything else tending to interest the traveler and stimulate touring. When the touring automobiles reached San Francisco, they were placed on display between the Transportation Palace and the Palace of Manufacturers. After the exposition, the Lincoln Highway Association used the film in an eastbound publicity tour of one-night stands. “It met with high enthusiasm everywhere,” according to the official history. [The Lincoln Highway: The Story of a Crusade That Made Transportation History, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935, p. 122-124]" www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/not2.pdf

Art Siegel OOOOOH-- NICE! Thanks so much and thank you for all the information! I tried enlarging and fiddling on photoshop but got nothing! Any idea what the cutie on the end left is !?

No.. it might be possible to find out by looking through accounts of the trip. Sadly, the film that was made is almost completely destroyed now, as it was not transferred from nitrate to safety film stock. The story here: lvgaldieri.wordpress.com/tag/three-mile-picture-show/ And that is H.C. Ostermann, a Lincoln Highway official, driving the Stutz. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/linchigh/x-lhc2813/LHC2813?from=inde...

Definitely at Sheepshead Bay Speedway. See, for example,

According to www.champcarstats.com/races/191610.htm Ken Rawlings (notice 'g') [www.driverdb.com/drivers/ken-rawlings/] was listed as a starter in the Astor Cup at Sheepshead Bay Speedway on September 30, 1916.

Thanks swanq. We'll add some of your new information to the description next time we update.

Volvo didn't make many cars in the early years- mostly trucks. Their best sales year before the war was about 2000 units. This is a rare one.

Looks like a very modern building, even today.

oaktree_brian_1976 Yes Brian, thats what struck me too, the building would not be out of place in a present day planned town but the cafe beside it looks ancient!

The town hall looks more 1960's than 30s or 40s. Still a great picture.

The town hall looks indeed quite modern, still it was built in 1938, created by the Swedish architects Yngve Ahlbom and Nils Sterner. It was made in red brick - a tradtional building material in Halmstad. /Anna B.