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Llandudno, Wales, 1961
Returning once again to the Charles Cushman collection for today’s street scene, we travel with Cushman to Mostyn Street in Llandudno, Wales, where Cushman snapped this picture in May of 1961. From...
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South Chicago, 1941
Back to the Charles Cushman collection for today’s street scene, taken April 25, 1941, overlooking the ore docks of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation in South Chicago. According to the info with...
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Chester, England, 1961
For today’s street scene, let’s return to England with Charles Cushman. Continuing his 1961 trip to the Isles, here we see a bit of a traffic jam outside a rather noteworthy gate. Full view below....
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Paris, 1960
Recall that Charles Cushman, who has already provided a number of street scenes for us to peruse, was quite the world traveler. The year before he made his trip to the British Isles, he toured Paris,...
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Des Moines, Iowa, 1958
Traipsing up and down East Locust Street in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, on Google’s Street View shows that few, if any, of the buildings in the Charles Cushman shot above – taken at 2:27 p.m. (or...
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Chicago, 1958
Back to Charles Cushman for today’s street scene, shot on a sunny September 28, 1958, looking east on West Huron Street. Cushman is using that long lens trick to flatten a very deep scene again here,...
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San Francisco, 1957
Back to the street scenes today, and back to the Charles Cushman collection. This time, we travel with Cushman to San Francisco’s Chinatown, specifically Broadway looking west, on a sunny day in April...
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Istanbul, Turkey, 1965
Exactly why Charles Cushman planted himself at the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, on two different occasions in 1965, he leaves no explanation. Typically, he’d shoot just one or two photographs of...
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1966
We’re not exactly sure where along the Santa Fe River in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that Charles Cushman took this photograph in April 1966, but we’re not exactly looking at the river as the owners of...
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Salt Lake City, 1958
It’s been a while since we took a look at a Charles Cushman photo for our street scene series, and that’s more because we exhausted the supply than because we grew tired of his excellent shots. This...
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Tiburon, California, 1960
Charles Cushman spent plenty of time photographing just about every inch of San Francisco during his travels, and he even crossed the Golden Gate Bridge at least a couple different times to take in...
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Lincoln, Nebraska, 1963
May on 13th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, was the setting for one of our previous carspotting exercises, using a photo that John Vachon shot in 1942. Twenty-one years later, Charles Cushman stood on...
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Nevada City, California, 1954
This right here is why we keep returning to Charles Cushman’s street scenes. He wasn’t a flashy or particularly well-trained photographer, he certainly didn’t take photos as anything more than a...
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Corte Madera, California, 1968
Long ago, we established that Charles Cushman, provider of so many of our street scenes, owned a red 1938 Ford and a gold 1940 Lincoln Zephyr, two cars that appeared quite often in his photographs. In...
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Beirut, Lebanon, 1965
It’s been gray for far too long here in the Northeast, so let’s get tropical with today’s street scene, shall we? For a little palm trees and blue seas, we’ll turn to Charles Cushman’s May 1965 shot...
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Beirut, Lebanon, 1965, part 2
Encouraged by the recent Charles Cushman shot of Beirut, Lebanon, we went through the rest of Cushman’s photographs from that trip and came across the above photograph, taken somewhere in Beirut’s...
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Nevada City, California, 1955
Why Charles Cushman made two trips to Nevada City, California, in subsequent years, we’re not sure, but he came away with great street scenes both times. From the August 1955 visit, we actually have...
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Austria, 1964
As we see from browsing through Charles Cushman’s photos, he spent the spring of 1964 in and around Austria. Why, we don’t know, but he seems to have absorbed as much of the scenery as possible, in...
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Wichita, Kansas, 1952
While we’ve been posting Charles Cushman street scenes for a few years now, we didn’t know much about the man until Hugo90 recently pointed out an NPR piece that gives us a little more insight into...
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San Rafael, California, 1955
Part of a larger Charles W. Cushman shot of the Mission San Rafael Arcangel in San Rafel, California, dated November 6, 1955, we zoomed in on the cars parked along A Street leading up to the church....
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New York City, 1941
Manhattan often seems timeless, but it’s not so timeless that we can figure out where exactly on South Street Charles Cushman stood when he took this photo in June 1941. Wherever he stood, though,...
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South Chicago, 1941, part 2
We’ve seen this particular location in our street scene series before – it’s a favorite of one of our favorites, Charles Cushman – but the last time we saw it was in the spring. We figured this shot...
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Dublin, Ireland, 1961
The area around Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, includes a number of landmarks, including several noteworthy statues which seemed to have attracted Charles Cushman’s interest in the summer of...
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Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1964
While we did once previously run this Charles Cushman photo of Der Watzmann as seen from Berchtesgaden, taken in May of 1964, that was about five years ago and we didn’t run it as part of our...
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New Orleans, 1951
We love the contrast between these two Charles Cushman photos of the French Quarter of New Orleans, both taken in December 1951. Above, one of the Pontalba Buildings, right across from Jackson Square;...
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Vienna, Austria, 1964
We’ve previously seen a few photos from Charles Cushman’s 1964 Austria trip, and as expected, he spent plenty of time during that trip in Vienna, where it appears Cushman was just as likely to come...
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Salzburg, Austria, 1964
Another couple of neat photos from Charles Cushman’s 1964 trip to Austria, above of a packed parking lot by the Cafe Tomaselli in Salzburg’s Alter Markt, an establishment that dates back to 1703....
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Istanbul, Turkey, 1965, part 2
We’ll make today’s street scene – shot by Charles Cushman in May 1965 in Istanbul, Turkey – a little more difficult. Because Cushman was focused on the Galata Tower (also seen in a previous Cushman...
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Salem, Oregon, 1956
Though Charles Cushman’s photos weren’t quite professional level, he always managed to evoke a mood and fix his scenes in time and place better than many other photographers. He also, thankfully, gave...
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New Orleans, 1959
Our old standby Charles W. Cushman had a few cities that he visited on multiple occasions, one of them being New Orleans. We’ve seen photos of his from the city from 1951, and we also see that he went...
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1950s
Also while clearing out old bookmarks, we came across a few Charles W. Cushman photos we haven’t yet used in our carspotting series, including these two from Colorado Springs. Above, we see the...
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San Francisco, 1968
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage construction...
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