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[devonhart]

Someone posted on facebook. Great photo IMO.

[IHB2]

What a great picture. Looks just like I remember it. Ntewest car in the pic is probably the blue Buick on the end - looks like a 61 or maybe the Falcon on the left.

Original Christie's was just south of there and also had drive-in service.

[Fringe]

Great pic. Gotta love those tailfins.

[sevfiv]

Neat...especially with the BCM/Medical Towers building in the background!

[Ross]

Those 1959 Chevrolets were popular. We had a wagon, nad two uncles had the 4 door versions.

Edited by Ross, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM.

[devonhart]

Makes me wonder how many fantastic photos are sitting in boxes and drawers of people with no techno skills to share them with the world.

[plumber2]

devonhart, on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 3:27 PM, said:

Makes me wonder how many fantastic photos are sitting in boxes and drawers of people with no techno skills to share them with the world.

That would be me...........no techno skills.

This spot would be where the current O'Quinn Towers is now.

[Subdude]

What a great picture. Love the blue Medical Towers and the 59 Chevys.

[kylejack]

What restaurant is that?

[mkultra25]

kylejack, on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, said:

What restaurant is that?

Bill Williams Chicken House on S. Main.

http://blog.chron.co...-chicken-house/

[rsb320]

I wonder if the canvass canopy is for that restaurant. It appears to be of the Prince's Drive-In vintage.

[Earlydays]

rsb320, on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM, said:

I wonder if the canvass canopy is for that restaurant. It appears to be of the Prince's Drive-In vintage.

Yes, it was part of Bil William's....

[blue92]

mkultra25, on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 3:21 PM, said:

Bill Williams Chicken House on S. Main.

http://blog.chron.co...-chicken-house/

My family ate there many times during the mid 60s we always went there for seafood. I was wondering if the restaurant ever changed it's name in the mid to late 60s. I for some reason thought the name was Bill Williams Sea Food Restaurant and Oyster Bar.

Edited by blue92, Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:59 AM.

[Tana]

Love this clear and wonderful photo, especially the cars.

[roym]

Yep, that photo is sweet. Thanks for posting. One of the better ones I've seen aside from the one in the Chronical article.

[Specwriter]

Notice under the canvas canopy there is a 1958 Chevrolet (looks like a Bel Air two door hard top). Detroit was all about annual changes in the appearance of its cars then but I can't think of another that was a radical as that between the 1958 and 1959 GM products. My grandmother had a 1957 Pontiac Super Chief two-door hardtop and my father had a 1959 Catalina two-door hardtop. It's amazing those two came from the same manufacturer and only two years apart. Somewhere in a box of photographs in my parents house is a picture of the two cars, side-by-side, in the driveway of our house.

Almost as radical was the difference in appearance of Dad's '59 and '64 Catalinas. The latter was also a two-door hardtop but it had no fins and seemingly less than half the bright trim of the '59. The roof had two transverse ribs that made it look like a convertible (sort of). Because the windshiled on the 1959 GM cars wrapped so far up and the back glass on the two-door hardtops did the same, the metal roofs of those cars were small indeed.

[plumber2]

GM designers were shocked when they first saw the 57 Chrysler products. They rushed back to their studios and scrapped their 1959 designs, but their all new 1958 designs were already too far along to change. That is why there is such a stark difference between the 1958 and 1959 GM models, leaving the 1958 models as one year wonders!