Family Car Monday: Inside, looking out onto 1935-36
Today's "Family Car Monday" tells a different story. Instead of identifying a car, we're looking from inside a car at the surrounding's on the outside - a street scene if you will - and we'll use the cue's to give us a rough date on an image. This picture was taken during a family trip (not my family) to the gulf coast. The back of the image says "Jackson, Mississippi?", and it may well be. So how do we find a possible date for this picture? The car's, of course! The wagon's excepted, we can tell one thing, right off the bat: The car that the photographer is riding in was produced from the early 1930's onward into the early 1940's. We can tell this by the rounded curves of the window frames. As American automobile manufactures entered the 1930's, they discovered that eliminating squared corners from metal stamping eliminated the need to patch in right angles in the stamping's because the steel could conform...