Carspotters' Challenge #5 -- Packed to the Rafters
by Cookie the Dog's Owner
on March 16, 2012
1966 was certainly a very good year for automobiles, and this Jewel-Osco "Master Market" in Chicago, which had free rooftop parking, was doing a lively trade on a winter's day when this picture was taken. Must've been the 49¢ ground beef and the 9¢ bananas that were drawing them in.
You've got a whole parking deck to work with, plus the parallel parking out front. See anything interesting?
--Cookie the Dog's Owner
(Photo obtained from the retail history blog Pleasant Family Shopping.)
Chris Meirose on March 16, 2012 at 12:26 AM
Slug bug red.
Yankee on March 16, 2012 at 06:47 AM
From left to right on the street:
59-60 Buick LeSabre (in front of it looks like the rear end of a 67-68 Chevy Impala wagon)
66-67 Buick Skylark
65-66 Mustang
57 Chevy (dirty!)
64-65 Buick Skylark
On the roof, in no particular order:
65 (?) Cadillac
Red VW Beetle
Next to the Beetle, looks like maybe a 67-68 Chrysler Newport (?), next to that perhaps a similar vintage Dodge Monaco (?)
Parked along the side in front of the Cadillac looks like perhaps a 64 Chevy Bel Air post 2-door (?), in front of that looks like a 64 Tempest/LeMans sedan, then another VW Beetle, in front of that looks like maybe a 67-68 Pontiac Catalina/Bonneville (?)
That's pretty much it
That Car Guy on March 16, 2012 at 10:20 AM
If I may be so bold, when I see bananas for 9¢ a pound, ground beef for 49¢ a pound, and hams for 29¢ a pound, it makes me long for "The good ole days."
toronado on March 17, 2012 at 02:52 PM
On that 57 Chev, is that dirt or bondo?
3 bugs on the roof. :-)
tomm on March 18, 2012 at 10:25 PM
Most of the cars have road salt on them, this is a Jewel in Chicago area; Oak Park IL. The '57 Chevy looks like a typical teen's ride of the mid 60's.
I grew up near it and went with my mother often, loved to ride up to the roof.