A couple of my buddies were arguing about whether this photo was an "original" from the late 50's or early 60's, or whether it was "staged" with recently restored motorcycles and old collector cars.
I found a clue that definitely helped make up my mind. How about you?
The sunglasses style and filter cigarette gives me a staged vibe.
Yeah - the pipes aren't blued. That would be restoration B-)
And there's no oil stains under the bikes.
Well, for me, looking at the blue (ish) car, if it were restored, I would expect a much greater shine. Looks like that car has been around the block a few times as it were.
paden cash, post: 341684, member: 20 wrote: A couple of my buddies were arguing about whether this photo was an "original" from the late 50's or early 60's, or whether it was "staged" with recently restored motorcycles and old collector cars.
I found a clue that definitely helped make up my mind. How about you?
The internet knows everything. I loaded your picture into tineye.com and it found the photo on two other websites. Here's the link https://www.flickr.com/photos/dclarson/sets/72157603875844203/ that proves that it is an original. Here's another shot of the whole scene.
His Flickr page has the name and stories for each picture.
At first I thought it might be a staged photo, but I changed my mind. There are wooden screen doors on the buildings that are visible. Wooden screen doors left us in the seventies, if they even made it that far. Wooden screen doors fell by the way side for the next generation aluminum variety. My bet is it's a real sixties photo. As for the pipes not being blue...they must be brand spankin' new scooters. I'm not sure about the Dodge convertible, but the scooters appear to '62 -'64 models.
Some pretty high quality Kodachrome pics for the time, imho.
Sorry, my first link was broken. Here it is again Flickr page for Original Picture with caption
That would be a 62 Dodge Dart, 440/500 Polara, can't see the grille good enough to tell which.
paden cash, post: 341708, member: 20 wrote: There are wooden screen doors on the buildings that are visible. Wooden screen doors left us in the seventies, if they even made it that far.
My house had a wooden screen door when I bought it in 2004. The addition it was part of was built in 1980 based on wiring, the 1979 and 1981 survey plans and the awful ceiling that fell down. Of course the house was part of a motel that used a staged photo for it's ~1981 brochure.
We removed the entire door and converted the 20x40 addition into a garage, bedroom, bathroom and hallway.
Another clue is the street light (in the non cropped photo), definitely correct style, hard to stage that unless you think of everything! The one thing that looks a little modern in the full photo is that guy carrying the box, almost look like a modern pair of sneakers...
SHG
