flyaway > This 1930 Alexander Eaglerock Model A-14 biplane (NC205Y) hangs near the west end of Concourse B of Denver International Airport. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado.
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flyaway > The Turkey Point Lighthouse is only 35 feet tall, but in its position on a 100 foot high headland overlooking the confluence of the Elk and Northeast Rivers, it is visible for many miles. This view is toward the southeast; the mouth of the Northeast River is at the right, and on the left is the broad expanse of the upper Chesapeake Bay. 6-19-04
flyaway > Suburban Strip, 1950

A GMC pickup truck, a Harley and an Indian motorcycle, hot rod and a Greyhound Silversides bus travel down Sandy Boulevard as dusk falls.
flyaway > 1955 Ford Country Squire station wagon in Park Forest, Illinois

In the 1950s, U.S. station-wagon production rose from less than 3 percent to almost 17 percent of the total number of cars built. The station wagon became a symbol of postwar suburban life. Suburban parents came to rely on these large cars to commute, cart the family, shop, and haul household goods.

Suburban development was heavily influenced by the automobile. Huge Park Forest, Illinois, one of the largest privately built communities in the country, opened in 1948.
flyaway > Madison & Wabash Station

A weary traveler waits at the L station suspended above the intersection of Madison and Wabash Avenues in Chicago’s Loop. The signs, registers, and other artifacts you see here date from the 1920s to the 1950s. All would have been found in a 1950s L station. Because the CTA seldom had the funds to modernize its stations, the old existed alongside the new.
flyaway > Chicago Transit Authority car #6719

Car 6719 was one of hundreds of transit cars purchased by the CTA in the 1950s to replace obsolete trains. This car carried L and subway passengers for almost 30 years.
flyaway > Cabins for Rent—Nightly Rates Only

It’s 1939, and as it gets dark a traveler stops at a tourist cabin called Ring’s Rest in Muirkirk, Maryland. Ring's Rest, about 20 miles north of Washington, D.C., was one of many small tourist courts scattered along U.S. 1 from Maine to Florida. The Ringe family rented out four wooden cabins and owned a roadside store with gasoline pumps. Miles from the nearest town, the Ringe family lived within earshot of highway traffic but in relative isolation. The only neighboring buildings were a general store, a railroad station, and a roadhouse.
flyaway > Martinsburg, Indiana, 1939

It’s an early winter morning in rural Indiana, and Russell Bishop is getting ready to drive his school bus route. His daughter Mary Lou is with him, and his double-deep orange school bus is parked outside the family farm’s barn. The introduction of school buses in rural areas allowed the replacement of one-room schoolhouses with larger, consolidated schools where children could get a more standardized education. Whether or not that was a good thing was controversial, but within 25 years -- from 1920 to 1945 -- almost 4,000 one-room schools closed their doors forever.
This 1930 Alexander Eaglerock Model A-14 biplane (NC205Y) hangs near the west end of Concourse B of Denver International Airport. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado.
flyaway > This 1930 Alexander Eaglerock Model A-14 biplane (NC205Y) hangs near the west end of Concourse B of Denver International Airport. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado.
This 1930 Alexander Eaglerock Model A-14 biplane (NC205Y) hangs near the west end of Concourse B of Denver International Airport. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado.
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