In this photo we have two lone automobiles driving along Foothill Blvd in Santa Anita. The year was 1916, when I’d imagine seeing those new-fangled horseless carriages was still a bit of a novelty, so I’m impressed that the road appears to be sealed. Both cars are heading in the same direction indicates to me that the car on the right was going too slow for the car on the left and so they’ve swerved into oncoming traffic to overtake the slowpoke. Is this the 1916 equivalent of road rage?
Christopher T. says: “The road is dragged and oiled for dust. My family had farmland in Michigan. Roads are dirt and scattered pea gravel. Looks just like to this day.”
The auto-colorizer did a pretty good job of bringing this scene to life.
It’s early film noir. The road passes above a culvert there. The party animals in the fancy sled are cruising past the crime scene where the other two have just dumped her husband’s body in the creek wearing the other guy’s outfit. Now they’ll have to catch and kill the witnesses and go on the run before the highway patrol spots them. Oh, sorry…I just watched “Detour” and got a bit mixed up.
The car on the right is an early electric car. No Tesla is not the first electric car.