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Cross Canada Trip Photos- from 1961


Although this isn't Poncho related the photos are great. These photos document a fellow from Ste Rose, Quebec who drove his 1958 Dodge Mayfair across Canada and the US in 1961. He must have been a car guy as (like me) he managed to get the Dodge in every shot! The quality of the photos is quite good.  Here are some of the highlights:

Dig the pennants taped to the bumper. No way this car guy is going to stick on a bumper sticker!

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I love the colors of the car biggrin     gives me a idea to add orange stripes to my winter beater Yukon    Its almost the same pewter color

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for posting these great images Todd, gives me a new puzzle to find where the pictures were taken on Google Street view.

Lets make it a game. I'll start...

 

 

Highway 3 and 5a junction, Princeton BC...

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cdnpont wrote:

Thanks for posting these great images Todd, gives me a new puzzle to find where the pictures were taken on Google Street view.

Lets make it a game. I'll start...

 

 

Highway 3 and 5a junction, Princeton BC...

 

 


 That is not FAIR.....disbelief    I don't know how to do that   confuse 



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Great pictures and thanks for sharing. Cool car to do the trip in too.
Brian

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Nice photos.

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The Mayfair is a Canadian built Dodge. It consisted of a Dodge front clip and a Plymouth Body. The side trim was Plymouth. It's similar to the 58 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Sedan that I used to own:

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The American 58 Dodge looked like this:

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Cool pics Todd.I knew the Princeton pic,sure has changed.The fifth pick is also hwy 3(crowsnest hwy)going down anarchist mt. heading into osoyoos b.c.,couple others look familiar,can place them though.



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Love that     gonna buy one someday, when I get older


 



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Great pictures and I bet it was a great trip. Could have been Lefty's brother with that many pictures of his car! Thanks for sharing.

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That would have been a sweet car for a Cross Canada roadtrip.

The Crowsnest down into Osoyoos. Remember it well from my motorcycle trip in 91. Spectacular road on a Ninja 1000.

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pic 4 looks like hastings st,around Richards ?? looking west.hotel vanc. in background green roof??????



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1964Canso wrote:

pic 4 looks like hastings st,around Richards ?? looking west.hotel vanc. in background green roof??????


 I figured it looked like the Hotel Vancouver too.



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photo 20, where he's parked along the guardrail beside the lake in the mountains looks like "Lac des Arc" just east of Canmore Alberta.  It looks the same today, but is now a divided highway.

That's a bit odd, as it looks like he took highway 3 from Medicine Hat to Vancouver, that's the long way.   It looks shorter on paper but takes a lot longer.   I'd say the Welcome to BC sign is again along highway 3 just west of Crowsnest Pass, the mountains are much smaller there.



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Also note the center dividing line is white, where as the shoulder lines are yellow.   I remember that as a kid, they changed in the lat 60's to yellow center dividing line, and white shoulders.



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1964Canso wrote:

pic 4 looks like hastings st,around Richards ?? looking west.hotel vanc. in background green roof??????


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Great pictures! Thanks for posting them.

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X2. Not only that but they are in colour, which was extravagant for the time.



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The photos are indeed very good in subject matter, composition and quality. All of the photos from the late 50's 60's and 70's taken in our family are like this so this is not really extravagant to me. My father owned a 35 mm Kodak camera and it took outstanding photos like these. In fact I see the camera box on the trunk of the car in one photo so he used the same camera. My father always developed the film into slides and that is how we viewed them as a family. it was a big deal waiting for the Kodak box to arrive in the mail so we could see them. On occasion glossy prints would be developed from the slides of those special pictures. As wedding gift my dad developed a huge selection of slides into prints and made up albums for me from our family trips and gatherings.



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Really special that someone had the foresight, and resources, to capture their trip in so many pictures.
I too remember having to send out our films to be developed and then waiting anxiously for their return.

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Love the fins!! What a great piece of nostalgia. Thanks for sharing the photos.

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