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Friday, December 11, 2020
Charles Custer, the American Road Trip and the '49 Ford
You know on AL there is nothing that interests us more than the extraordinariness of the ordinary. That's why we feel we've stumbled on treasure with these Charles Custer photographs, taken by a Chicago lawyer on a series of road trips in the early 1950s. Custer used an Agfa box camera. We heard of the work thanks to the photographer Bill Burleson, who learned of them from Jason Burlingame.You can learn more about Custer and his photographs here..
Remarkable record bringing to my mind memories of sitting on soda shop stools, wishing for cookies on the store shelves and dreaming of buying my mother a washing machine. The tall long narrow stores in New Mexico are very similar to the buildings that line the RR track on E. El Paso in Marfa. Thanks for posting these stunning photographs. Custer, the photographer, is going to have an impact.
Remarkable record bringing to my mind memories of sitting on soda shop stools, wishing for cookies on the store shelves and dreaming of buying my mother a washing machine. The tall long narrow stores in New Mexico are very similar to the buildings that line the RR track on E. El Paso in Marfa. Thanks for posting these stunning photographs. Custer, the photographer, is going to have an impact.
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