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Where I live, most driveways are taken up by SUVs, Crossovers and other large vehicles. They all pretty much look alike and most are painted in black, white or gray. So...it's a real pleasure to have a neighbor with an original '64 Chevy. This was the kind of car which was common when I was a kid and its awesome to see one right next door on a daily basis.
If your browser supports "Flickr Notes", I've attached a number of them describing this car's most salient and desirable features.
The Geo Prizm and Chevrolet Prizm were the ultimate in badge-engineering. They were actually Toyota Sprinters when sold in Japan and renamed the Prizm for American consumption.
Over time, the original emulsion has turned reddish due to improper storage. Sorry about that.
(See the Flickr notes posted on the photo for more info).
Although revered by collectors these days, this Chevy was just another stripped and abandoned 10 year old hulk on the streets of Manhattan.
Bashed, burned, stolen and abandoned cars were a fairly common sight well into the early 1990s. Starting in the mid 1960s, New York had begun its long and unstoppable downward spiral as it entered the "malaise era".
This was the oldest car I've seen around town in quite a while, so naturally had to take a few snapshots with my cellphone. Based on the paint color, the trunk lid probably came from another car. Note the little teddy bear sitting on the rear shelf as well as the steering wheel cover with a Chevy logo.
I spoke with the owner and he mentioned that it had been in the family for years. The engine is the original 305 Chevy small-block V8.
None of this exists anymore. The Surf Club opened in 1967 and closed in 1983 to be replaced with the Surf Village condominiums in 1984.
This is an example of REALLY early photography. For Christmas 1966, Santa was kind enough to drop off one of those yellow Kodak Instamatic 104 camera kits.
It came complete with one flashcube and one cartridge of 126 Kodachrome slide film. I still have that same camera and it works! (so why do my smartphones die after 2 years or so?)
Not the clearest photo I ever took. The light meter in my Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 sensed that it was too dark for a handheld exposure, but I took the shot anyway. It was a dreary winter late afternoon.
Many changes have taken place between this moment in time and the way downtown New Haven, Connecticut looks today. The traditional old Whelan Drug chain is long gone. Dutchess is a large regional fast food chain, but has no presence downtown anymore. The building in the distance with semi-circular windows was the the headquarters of the New Haven Gas Company and was demolished in 1975.
Behind it hovered the New Haven Coliseum, which after years of disuse was finally imploded on January 20, 2007.
Although hard to see in this shot, the stores on Orange Street in the distance were New Haven's "furniture and appliance row" for decades. It fell on hard times as people stopped shopping downtown in the 1980s and was later restored as the "Ninth Square" neighborhood.
Here's how the same place looks today...
www.google.com/maps/@41.3056715,-72.9241353,3a,75y,204.44...
A crop from a 126 film Kodacolor image capturing a moment in time of my early teen life by the Milford Connecticut shoreline.
It was one of those old-style Polaroids which only used black and white film packs and you had to manually count the processing time up to 60 seconds on your watch. Peeling off the backing and seeing the image appear was almost like magic to my 7 year old eyes! (and yes, I liked the acrid smell of the fixer sticks). A little moment captured from 1960s life.
