Santa Fe, NM 1927...

SamJ
SamJ Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
Lowell Yerex Hudson Dealership, also Star and Packard. Buick across the street...2 blocks from the plaza.

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  • 37 CTS
    37 CTS Senior Contributor
    Hi Sam,



    Do you have street name for this dealer?
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    37 CTS wrote:
    Hi Sam,



    Do you have street name for this dealer?



    Shel, it was on Don Gaspar at the corner of Alameda. One of these days I'm going to take a contemporary photo...if it ever stops snowing...
  • Browniepetersen
    Browniepetersen Senior Contributor
    Check out the wire wheels on the car in front of the Buick Dealership.
  • ESSX28-1
    ESSX28-1 Senior Contributor
    Browniepetersen wrote:
    Check out the wire wheels on the car in front of the Buick Dealership.



    We used to call them 'cycle wheels' An old MG T A I had in the early 60's had similar ones. You could pop a spoke or two if you cornered too hard!! Lotsa fun!!
  • Lee ODell
    Lee ODell Senior Contributor
    Great picture of times past. Did you notice the sight glass gas pumps at the filling station?



    Lee
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    And as you can see in this photo taken this morning, Spring has sprung in Santa Fe...:D
  • VicTor Z
    VicTor Z Senior Contributor
    Looks like a Ma Bell Telephone sign to the right of the gas pumps?? I started looking for the gas pumps by Sam's adobe home! :(
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    I'm sort of wondering what that slot (groove, ??) is running down the middle of the street. Maybe it's a drainage slot, but given the narrow tires of that era it seems it would be dangerous to drivers.



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr

    Memphis, TN
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    Based on what I've seen around old Santa Fe (many streets are close to original, many are still unpaved) this is not a trench but a bump. The left hand side of the road is higher than the right. But I could be wrong...I often am. As for the snow at my house...almost exactly 12" fell last night. :D
  • Lee ODell
    Lee ODell Senior Contributor
    Car thief getting into car from underneath. Legs and feet still visible.
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    Lee O'Dell wrote:
    Car thief getting into car from underneath. Legs and feet still visible.



    There is a bit more to this photo showing more of the front of the car with the feet. (I didn't get it all in the scan.) There are no lights in the headlight buckets and it looks like the dealer's name and other writing are on the windshield, probably in soap. It looks derelict, in fact. I think this car was placed out there as some kind of promotion, perhaps "we take any trade" or maybe used in a Halloween parade or something. :D
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    Here's a detail scan from another copy of the photo. It appears that the feet belong to somebody who is standing behind the car. The part of the message you can see on the car's windshield reads "sale" and "Closson." :D
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    Okay, I've asked my operatives in Santa Fe to help me on this one, and they're come up with 3 different present-day views, one of which may include the area of the original 1927 shot.



    The first two are facing east along Alameda (though taken at different locations) and the third is facing north on Don Gaspar. (The fourth, facing west, didn't look at all like the area in question.)



    Thank you Tom and Lori!
  • Browniepetersen
    Browniepetersen Senior Contributor
    I just had to send in this photo of a ski cabin that we have here in Utah. The rock wall just in front of the trees is just over 4 feet high and you can see that the snow is just near the top. I spent the night there Friday and last nights snow on the deck is just under 14 inches. However, the skiing is great!!!! Spring skiing almost makes up for the fact that you have to ski into the cabin this time of the year....
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    Jon B wrote:
    Okay, I've asked my operatives in Santa Fe to help me on this one, and they're come up with 3 different present-day views, one of which may include the area of the original 1927 shot.



    The first two are facing east along Alameda (though taken at different locations) and the third is facing north on Don Gaspar. (The fourth, facing west, didn't look at all like the area in question.)



    Thank you Tom and Lori!



    It's the third photo, Jon. The building on the left halfway down the block with the red tile roof (behind the tree in the 1927 photo) is the Don Gaspar Hotel, which stands today much as it did then.
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    Oops! Make that the De Vargas hotel. Here's a photo of a Hudson parked in front of it. :D
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