Peter Behrens's Blog, page 62

1940 Chevrolet Special Deluxe. Durham, New Hampshire.

From Reid Cunningham. "Near Durham, NH. An older restoration or reasonable original, paint is cracked up close but otherwise in nice condition. The original Blue Flame 6 looks to still be installed."

Super Deluxe? Here's a 1948 Ford Super Deluxe station. wagon. A '41 Ford Super Deluxe coupe in Saskatchewan; and a 1941 Plymouth Super Deluxe business coupe.

Two Indigenous Men, Water Hen Lake, Saskatchewan. 1920s.

 

                                   Photo: Frank Crean | © McCord Stewart Museum Archives

Tico Land Rover. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  Bill Burleson caught the L-R in Santa Fe. Ensambladara Automatriz assembled "Tico" L-R's in Costa Rica in the 1960s and 70s.  

Hauling gear, Naskeag.

Hauling lobster gear, out at Naskeag. It's scallop season.
 

1988 Chevrolet K-20. Colorado Springs. Sunstruck.

 

1967 Buick Wildcat. Colorado Springs

 

...and we posted a '66 Wildcat a while back. Also a '69, in Montreal. And then there is Buick's all-electric Wildcat concept car.

Bulgemobile Airdreme 1934

 "This Grand New, Brand New Beauty'll Never Be Thrown Out of Work! Brother Can You Spare

 A Glance?"

Everett Baker, photographer

Patrick Doug in Great Plains Quarterly: The photographs that Everett Baker (1893- 1981) took in Saskatchewan from the 1940s to the 1960s cover just about one-half of the province, mostly the prairie part, at the northern end of the Great Plains. An American citizen, Baker was not drafted into World War I because of an asthmatic condition; after obtaining a BS degree he went to work in Saskatchewan in the hope that the dry climate would be better for his health. There he sold books and farmed in the Palliser Triangle, soon sharing with its rural population the hardships that accompanied the Great Depression....
    ...He had bought a Leica in 1939, at the very end of the Great Depression. With the help of this lightweight camera and the recently developed Kodachrome 16 and 25 ASA films, he was able to take fine-grained, long-lasting color slides of local people and their landscapes. Two comparisons come to mind immediately: with Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), the former illustrated with stark black-and-white, mostly posed, photographs a poetic text James Agee dedicated to the rural poverty of the American South. As for CartierBresson, who also worked with a Leica, his black-and- white snapshots are famous for the artistry caught at what he called "the decisive moment."

1946 Ford pickup on the block.

 

Up for auction at Hemmings. We have posted a 1946 Ford from Swift Current. And a 1 1/2 ton from April, Maine. How about a 1946 Ford Super De Luxe Tudor sedan? Or a 1946 Ford panel truck at a pow wow at Fort Qu'Appelle.

2 Advanced Design trucks, Saskatchewan.

 

From Alex Emond, in southern Saskatchewan: This pair were sitting out in a field near a tiny place called Rush Lake . Not far from Swift Current. Late fall but nice and warm. Plenty windy however. Late afternoon light.