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Austin-Healeys head to Vermont
The New England Region of the Austin-Healey Club of America is playing host for this year’s Conclave, inviting Austin-Healey owners from across the country and around the world to enjoy some of the...
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More on Project MG (or “Moron Project MG”)
So we’re hard at work on our MG Project, for the benefit of the nice folks at Good News Garage in Burlington, Vermont. They provided us a donated 1980 MGB that they were going to auction off, and when...
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Hope and Son – we haul it all
As anybody who has owned a truck can attest, once your friends find out, they’ll recruit you to haul anything and everything. Like a few wrecks, a boat, a tree stump, a house, or another boat. As we...
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Newhall, California, 1974, and Burlington, Vermont, 1970s
Now that we’ve had our three days of summer in Vermont, it’s time to start prepping once again for winter. Lay up the cordwood, seal up the windows and reinstall chains on the tires so we don’t get...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1960s
Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, is now a pedestrian-only zone, but there once was a time when it was open to vehicular traffic, as we see from the shot above from the Vermont Landscape Change...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
Much like ArtFink’s observation that there’s a Ford Falcon lurking somewhere in just about every street scene from the 1960s, I’ll posit that there’s a Volkswagen Beetle parked outside just about...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1960s
Yes, we saw this photo of a snowy street scene in 1960s Burlington from the Vermont Landscape Change program last summer, but we must hail our winter overlords as the season approaches, and how better...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1984
These three street scenes from 1984 Burlington, which we came across at the Vermont Landscape Change program, may be a little newer than most of our typical street scenes, but they include plenty of...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1970
Let’s get another snow scene in here while winter continues to hang around and torment us. These two Woody Grimes photos, dated January 22, 1970, from the Vermont Landscape Change program, depict the...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
Ah, the life of Donald Wiedenmayer. We’ve run across several of his photographs while searching for street scenes in the Vermont Landscape Change photo archive, and it seems that he was tasked with...
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University of Vermont, 1950s and 1970s
All these Vermont street scenes we’ve used over the years come to us from the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program, but what did the University of Vermont’s automotive landscape look like...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
While the intersection of Main Street and University Place in Burlington, Vermont, looks plenty busy today, it also looks plenty busy on June 29, 1965, when Donald Wiedenmayer took these two photos of...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
While we can point to changes in most aspects of daily life between the vintage carspotting scenes and their modern-day equivalents, it’s also interesting to note what remains relatively the same:...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
Here in Vermont, we refer to this as a traffic jam. I mean, look at these two street scenes from the Vermont Landscape Change program depicting Burlington’s North Avenue in July 1965 – half a dozen...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
Pretty good variety in today’s Vermont Landscape Change Program carspotting scene, which depicts the corner of St. Paul and Pearl streets just on the edge of downtown Burlington, Vermont, toward the...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
In June of 1965, highway officials had their eye on the intersection of Shelburne Road and South Willard Street in southern Burlington – a Y-shaped intersection with another couple side streets...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
From the Vermont Landscape Change program, we have today another couple of shots of Shelburne Road in Burlington taken for the area’s highway plan in June of 1965, these two show the shopping areas...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1970
One would have thought we’d come across all the possible highway opening photos on Vermont Landscape Change a couple years ago, but no, there’s more. Today’s photos, dated November 1970, depict the...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1969-1970
Winter of 1969-1970, University of Vermont, Cook Physical Science Building under construction, yeah yeah yeah. Cars! Look at cars! See many different cars! Dark cars, light cars, foreign cars,...
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Burlington, 1950s
Usually, photos of college campuses that appear in our carspotting series show overflowing parking lots, cars triple-parked and carving out parking spaces from thin air. However, these two photos of...
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Burlington, Vermont, 1965
Think back, back to the summer days of 2014, when we first ran a couple Vermont Landscape Change photos from Burlington’s North Avenue, showing an old dealership and a car-choked suburban-ish street....
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