Wagons in vintage Street scenes

10th Avenue at Stark Steet Governor Hotel Pittock Block March 27 1956 Portland Oregon

 

Roberts Brothers SW 3rd Avenue at Morrison Street May 31 1955 Portland Oregon

 

Dekum Building SW Third Avenue at Washington Street Downtown Portland Oregon

 

Vacant building at SW Yamhill Street and Front Avenue Portland Oregon May 13 1959

 

from the movie "North by Northwest" the Forest Service 56 Chevy magically changes from a window delivery



to a regular station wagon in a very short time and distance.

 

1950’s Downtown Lincoln, Maine


1950’s Business District, Downtown Rumford Maine


1950’s Main Street, Springvale, Maine


79 or 80 Colony Park


Nataani Nez Restaurant, Shiprock, New Mexico".


Willcox, Arizona


Springerville, Arizona

 

Reeds Restaurant. Pride of Highway 60. Springerville, Arizona


[Some postcard humor]: "I'm in New Mexico - My Ass is in Arizona


North West Texas Hospital on W. 6th circa 1964


Flagstaff, Arizona




Williams, Arizona

 

I was having a hard time trying to figure out what year and model this wagon was. The closest I could come up with was maybe 'a 63 Fairlane wagon, but I knew that wasn't right. Then, I noticed it's from Australia which explained why I couldn't place it.
1997Falcon, you're from down under, right? Any idea on the particulars of this one?

 

I recognize this place. The Saddleback Inn is on First St. in Santa Ana, Calif., right next to the Santa Ana Zoo and the I-5..........

 

Alaskan Highway -- also referred to as the Alcan. This road was built by two teams of U.S. Army engineers starting in both the North and the South on March 9, 1942. The road was built largely as a result of the Japanese occupation of the Aleutian Islands and designed to connect the Alaskan Territory with the lower 48 states. Two months later a small pilot road was open to Army vehicles and within a year a permanent all-weather road -- then called the Alcan Military Highway - was completed between Dawson Creek in British Columbia and Fairbanks Alaska. After the Canadian portion of the Alcan was handed over to CAnada in 1946, the Alaska highway was graded, widened and opened to unrestricted traffic in 1947.

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The early days of the Alaskan Highway were legendary for the toll it took on those travelers brave enough to tackle it. Today, the road is largely paved and many of the crooked parts and to take on the Highway today is not such the task. However that doesn't discount the immense beauty, amazing wildlife and the vast wilderness that stretches for more than 1,500 miles to Fairbanks.