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More Eye Candy from the Past: The Shorpy Archives

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Refrigerator shopping in 1941.
All images via Shorpy Archive/Juniper Gallery.

If you liked the old photos from the Detroit News Archivist post, you'll also dig Shorpy's offerings. Shorpy is an Alabama-based high-quality printer of gorgeous old photographs, from the Juniper Gallery's archives, of some of our favorite topics: Cities, industry, architecture, interior design, grand municipal spaces.

There are some hidden "History of ID" gems like the Futuramic Lounge, designed by Raymond Loewy for JFK Airport (then called Idlewild) in 1962...

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...but the site lends itself well to random browsing, where you'll encounter things you'd never think to Google. Like this beautiful Dodge dealership in the Bronx circa 1948:

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Or this absurdly ornate statue and fountain in the middle of a New York department store in 1910, when a department store was an amazing temple of commerce:

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