A picture’s worth a thousand words. What an overused cliché — but often true. Sadly, many photos have lost most of their thousand words.
Today, Flash from the Past looks at six photos: some have minimal descriptions ...
others beg for details ...
all feature cars. 1. The photo of these seven cars lined up in front of the Bullas Brothers furniture and appliance building has long been one of my favourites.
In addition to the great cars, two mermaids in the fountain area make this an image to savour. Those two beauties, sculpted in the early 1940s by Helen Waimel, now live in the lobby of Kitchener’s Centre in the Square but are, sadly, non-spouting. Charles Street runs in the foreground here and the Bullas site now sits within the abandoned transit terminal property.
The cars from left to right are: 1937-38 Chevy, 1946-47 Olds, 1937-38 Chevy, 1939 Mercury Coupe, 1939-40 Dodge or Plymouth, 1939 Chevy Coupe and, probably, a 1940 Chevy. 2. All cars have wheels but not all have rubber tires.
M235 was a Canadian Pacific Railway inspection car, in real life a 1934 Packard, seen here near Galt’s CPR depot. The area CPR roadmaster had exclusive use of the car and those white flags gave him full rights from station to station over any other rail traffic. What a sight this would have been crossing the Grand River bridge! 3.
Shell is one of the few mid-century name brands remaining on service stations. Lloyd Gross’s small but stylish Shell was a familiar sight on King West in .
