Colorado Blvd in Pasadena (looking east from around Oakland Ave) must have been a very festive place around the holidays. This shot was taken in the early 1950s (I’m guessing that’s the westbound morning peak hour we’re seeing) back when Sears were still Sears Roebuck & Co and (I’m guessing) people still bought from their ubiquitous catalog.
The auto-colorizer did a better job than I expected. The colors of the cars are off, but everything else seems fairly true to life.
This was roughly that same view in February 2021:
Two Studebakers…
It seems like every photo of street screens taken in the 1950’s shows Studebaker automobiles. How did Studebaker ever go out of business.
Not to mention Packard, longest of cars, died in 1959. Definitely a conspiracy…