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- U-Smile Court
- U-Smile Court. Kansas City, MO. 1940's? View full size.
U Smile, I Smile I ... 39th Street area. Alas, U-Smile Court (which was a kind of motor hotel, not a street of residences) is more than gone. It's obliterated! ... knew ya.
U-Smile Motel I remember the U-Smile Motor Lodge on 40 Highway, near Kaufmann Stadium. The building is still there ...
Posted by John.Debold - 09/20/2011 - 8:31pm -
- Boll Court: 1939
- October 1939. "Tourist court in Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. Everything is named 'cotton boll' in ... Assisting that transformation was Cotton Boll Court, a multiunit motor court just off the southeast corner. ... Remembered by several elderly ...
Posted by Dave - 08/05/2019 - 8:47am -
- The Deputy: 1938
- ... commission to make such choices. Platt won in the superior court, and by 1954 was the longest-serving incumbent in Fairfield County government.
Motor Voter November 4, 1938. Just 4 days before election day. Making the ...
Posted by Vintagetvs - 04/01/2016 - 11:02am -
- God and Ford: 1924
- ... its Nebraska Avenue location in the 1930s. The 1905 Ford Motor Co. building on Pennsylvania Avenue was torn down in 1980.
... room for something else. Various municipal and federal court buildings occupy the site today. - Dave]
Our God Ford Everybody ...
Posted by Dave - 07/17/2012 - 10:15pm -
- Met Light: 1910
- ... If they turn you down, next stop is the NY State Supreme Court. The property that it was built on was owned by a NY Congressman who sold ... of those sitting on the park benches: Lighted skyscrapers, motor cars, telephones -- we've reached the apex, things can't get any more ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 3:39pm -
- D.P.O.: 1902
- ... custom house, and other governmental functions.
Pre Motor-City Not a motor car in sight in the town once referred to in some ... it even had a dark, narrow secret staircase going from the court room to an attic. It was used as a space where juries could deliberate ...
Posted by Dave - 08/05/2012 - 3:10pm -
- Tennessee Club: 1906
- ... Best part is that the building still stands at N. Court and Second and is mostly intact (the balconies have been closed in). The ...
The six-pole 3 hp (overload capacity 9 hp) electric motor mounted on the rear axle was made by National, and drove through spiral ...
Posted by Dave - 05/29/2014 - 7:46am -
- Hop In: 1937
- ... '37 here in my hometown that I see at the post office or court house now and again, owned by a local retired grocer (who owns more than ... the cheap. Thus, it was decided the straight eight Auburn motor would be used in order to save the R and D costs associated with a new ...
Posted by Dave - 06/06/2012 - 5:39am -
- NYSE: 1903
- ... example of the harmless emissions of an internal digestion motor.
Washington Stepped Here At the far right of the photo is George ... Federal Hall was home to the first Congress, Supreme Court and Executive Branch of the government when New York was the nation's ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 3:38pm -
- The Busy Corner: 1906
- ... car similar to this one at an outdoor museum once. The motor control was fairly easy to understand, but those mechanical brakes were a ... without having first filed an application in district court"
Upright bikes Bikes back then were "fixies." They had no braking ...
Posted by Dave - 08/21/2012 - 4:50pm -
- This Is Florida: 1955
- ... Indians, I bugged my parents repeatedly to stay in this motor court when we visited my granddad every year in Orlando.
My folks finally ...
Posted by Dave - 10/27/2019 - 3:30pm -
- Quartermaster Corps: 1865
- ... that, e.g. , gate guards should be civilians, but motor pool mechanics should be in uniform.
[The tracing of the term ... of the regular troops who had been sent south. Wallace was court-martialed for his effort because his orders had been to defend Baltimore! ...
Posted by Dave - 05/11/2012 - 10:34pm -
- Shady Business: 1920
- ... stuff. Still available for purchase.
It is 1920 and motor vehicles still provide little protection from winter weather. Why is ... ended and was pending for the October 1924 term of the court.
(The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Natl Photo, Stores & ...
Posted by Dave - 03/04/2013 - 8:31pm -
- See Grand Caverns: 1930
- ... of 501 Twelfth street northwest, will be tried in Police Court next Thursday on charges of using a motor vehicle for advertising purposes and of driving an automobile with view ...
Posted by Dave - 03/27/2015 - 1:08pm -
- Modern Motorist: 1908
- ... mile long Wheeler-Schebler Trophy Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (not yet paved with brick) by more than 10 miles when the race ... winner they sued for the trophy, but the company lost in court. It was not until many years later they they were acknowledged as the ...
Posted by Dave - 01/19/2013 - 6:16pm -
- Small Oil: 1939
- ... in NYC and fight Texas all the way to the US Supreme Court over a tax matter. They seem too large for this shoestring operation.
... Double Eagle Refinery Co.,” which actually refined used motor oil, is a candidate. “From 1929 until the early 1980s, the Double Eagle ...
Posted by Dave - 06/02/2018 - 12:17pm -
- Left on White: 1926
- ...
Western Cities Ahead of East
In Solving Problems of Motor Control.
Installation of a mechanically controlled electric signal ... traffic signals on Sixteenth street were taken to traffic court last night.
Hard Left Turn The evolution of the left turn, as ...
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 12:16pm -