Car experts, I need your help again on this postcard. Maybe you can help me come up with a date, by ID’ing some of those old cars, parked curbside.
Photo by Bob McDonald
A great shot of the Palace Marquee, something starring Marylin Monroe is playing… Look at the crowd of people out on the sidewalks…
A view up the west side of Ouellette, many storefronts with Neon signs out front.
These old post cards of Ouellette at the height of its dominance as a retail centre are sad too see. Decades of poor planing and lousy zoning have brought us to the point where we are today. Heck even the Freedom Festival is packin’ up and heading out to the edge of town. Construction or not… That’s lousy.
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LOL. We both posted at almost the same time, Andrew.
Reading all the comments I would say it probably was 1953 . No 1954 cars in the picture & anything later than that had newer body designs . Anyway these pictures bring back pleasant memories . Too bad they don't last forever .
The cream color car enroute not parked is not a Pontiac but probably a 1953 chevrolet .
Does anyone have a picture of my grade school ( St. Joseph catholic elementary ) East Windsor close to Wyandotte & Pillette North of Railroad . They tore it down .
The poster above the marquee is "Don't Bother to Knock," which was released in July of 1952.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Don't_bother_to_knock.jpg