Recent content by John Butts in CT

Nifty second life for a Ford.

A Bugatti Type 35, no less.

Thanks to: https://sivustot.kaleva.fi/aine/2016/12/27/mika-tarina-suomen-vanhimman-autoliikkeen/

Just a Tudor, but certainly a commercial application.

Here's another image from the H.A.M.B. site. Any thoughts on what's going on here?

1930 Goodyear Airship Services “AA” at the Florence Avenue plant, Los Angeles. In keeping with Goodyear’s promotion of blimps as “yachts of the skies,” “Pilgrim” and “Volunteer” were named after America’s Cup contenders. “Pilgrim” was Goodyear’s first civilian blimp. Launched in 1925 and...

In keeping with a picture being worth 1,000 words... here's 2,000 words' worth. I couldn't resist melding the old and new images of the Davenport Hotel. Despite differences in lenses, angles, etc., etc., I'm pleased with the results. Living in a home that's been continuously occupied since...

Oh, oh! In the 1915 image the gentleman standing on the ramp behind and downslope from the "T" sedan has failed to tuck his necktie into his shirt between the 3rd and 4th buttons, as I was taught to do by my 7th grade shop teacher... in case of tie clip failure. All the more reason to wear a...

Always great to find another print reference to a color depicted in a black and white photo. Of course, the reporter did not have access to the judging standards, else he would have chosen among "Niagara Blue Light, Arabian Sand Dark, Dawn Gray Dark, Gunmetal Blue, or Niagara Blue Dark." How...

Looking at that 1915 image I can't help but notice that there's a rear seat passenger as well as a driver in the "T" sedan! Did he lose a bet? The winch cable is evident. Absent a cable, I wonder if the "T" could have climbed that ramp... in reverse, of course. Going down would be another...

The Beardmore building, which housed a number of businesses in addition to the Beardmore family hardware store, is in Priest River, about 50 miles NW of Spokane. The Beardmores also had holdings in logging and sawmills in the region, so they had the riggers, haulage equipment and timber ramps...

Spokane Chronicle, December 2, 1927. Front page.

The Spokane Daily Chronicle had a front page picture of the New Ford interior on Saturday, December 3, 1927, and a large ad on Monday. December 5th. Still looking for news articles about the debut.