slgwv's photos with the keyword: cars

Death Valley National Park, California, USA. From a slide of a family trip in 1958. I got a kick out of the parking lot--it looks like a classic car rally, but that's what people really drove then! ;) At this time Scotty's Castle, altho completely surrounded by Death Valley National Monument (as it was then), was still privately owned and administered. The Park Service finally took it over in the 1980s or so.

Looking west. The upper photo is from the L.F. Manis collection (#100-1112) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was taken ca. 1935; I took the lower photo on 13 June 2011. The exact original photo position is unrecoverable because of all the road construction and housing development. (I'm standing on a built-up terrace for a development behind me.) Again, the amount of development in the last 75 years is astonishing.

Looking southwest. The top photo is from the L.F. Manis collection (#100-1113) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was taken ca. 1935. I took the lower photo on 13 June 2011. There's been just a bit of development! I think the exact original photography stance is now under the modern highway. Note, however, that not only is the big water tank on the skyline still there, but also the building skylined on the knoll to the right (outlined). I think it was one of the government's original offices for the Boulder Canyon Project (Hoover Dam).