Vintage cars parked with color isolated two tone pink 1950s Chevy car. Fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding.
Color isolated classic red Chevy Belair vintage automobile at the beach. Fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding. Square format for easy framing.
Winter on a New Hampshire farm with an old red farm truck buried under a blanket of white winter snow. Fine art photography of an old Dodge farm pickup truck in a snow covered field in Etna, New Hampshire just outside of Hanover.
Inside a classic Chevy Bel Air. Fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding
Classic Vintage Two Tone Sedan Automobile
Chevrolet (/ʃɛvrəˈleɪ/ shev-rə-lay), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency.
After Durant’s second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim “a car for every purse and purpose,” would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford’s Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.
Mel’s Drive-In (not to be confused with Mel’s Diner) is an American restaurant chain founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.
In October 1963, the Mel’s Drive-In chain was picketed and subjected to a sit-in by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination over the fact that while the restaurant would serve food to African Americans and hired them as cooks, they were not allowed to work “up front” where they could be seen by white customers. More than 100 protesters were arrested. The picketing ended when Harold Dobbs, a San Francisco City Supervisor who had run for Mayor and lost, settled with the protesters and began to allow black workers “up front.”
Mel’s was used as a location in the 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are out for a drive and Tracy pulls into Mel’s and orders Oregon Boysenberry ice cream, then has a minor traffic altercation with a black man. The Mel’s was located in the Excelsior district of San Francisco. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy never actually visited the location.
In 1972, the restaurant was selected as a feature location by George Lucas for his 1973 film American Graffiti. The prominent play given to the location has been credited with having saved the company from possibly going out of business.The Mels used was located at 140 South Van Ness in San Francisco.