Re: IML: Grosse Pointe, Michigan

["Buck" <rind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Imperial Kids,

   I have those same books. The picture with the A&P in the background is 
taken at a gas station. I love seeing the price of gas at 31 cents for 
premium if only in old pictures and my dreams.

   Buck
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From: <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: IML: Grosse Pointe, Michigan


> Folks,
>
> Recently I was looking through a book titled Imperial Photo Album 
> 1964-1968, or something like that, and I became curious as to where the 
> pictures were shot.
>
> For those of you who haven't seen this book, it has a lot of black & white 
> photos of Imperials from 1964 to 1968.  Some of these are obviously studio 
> shots, but a large number show Imperials driving around suburban 
> neighborhoods or parked at gas stations (one with an A&P in the 
> background).  The shots look very real and unstaged, for the most part.
>
> Anyway, after careful scrutiny of some road signs in a corner of one of 
> the pictures and with the help of Mapquest I was able to discover that 
> most of these shots were taken in the neighborhood of Grosse Pointe, 
> Michigan, which is a suburb of Detroit.
>
> Well, big deal you say.  Yeah, it is kind of trivial but it looks to me as 
> if the photo crew just grabbed a car and drove down the street to take 
> these pictures.  I don't think this neighborhood is that far away from the 
> Imperial plant in Detroit.
>
> Anybody familiar with Grosse Pointe?  I wonder how it's changed since 
> these photos were taken.
>
> Mark M
>
>
>
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