{"id":23932,"date":"2022-08-25T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23932"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T22:49:21","slug":"cars-and-photos-a-natural-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cars-and-photos-a-natural-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"cars and photos &#8211; a natural combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23933\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/100-years-ago-US-and-Canadian-auto-clubs-met-in-Blaine-WA.-Photo-Stuart-Thomson-January-26-1918-Vancouver-Public-Library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23933\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23933\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/100-years-ago-US-and-Canadian-auto-clubs-met-in-Blaine-WA.-Photo-Stuart-Thomson-January-26-1918-Vancouver-Public-Library-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a car rally c1918 from the collection housed in the VPL<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The photo at left is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpl.ca\">VPL<\/a> (a PHSC member). The cut line reads, &#8221;\u00a0100 years ago US and Canadian auto clubs met in Blaine, WA.\u00a0 Photo, Stuart Thomson January 26, 1918 &#8211; Vancouver Public Library&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to my good friend, George Dunbar, for sharing this photo from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpl.ca\/historicalphotos\">VPL historical photos collection<\/a>\u00a0 with us. My father grew up with automobiles. Repairing these machines over the years kept him and his family housed, fed, and clothed.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike today and the astonishing costs of housing, anyone of my father&#8217;s age, with a bit of patience and care could eventually own a house. As George Dunbar says in his email on this photo, &#8220;Photography is truly a &#8216;Time Machine&#8217;, allowing us to visit and experience the past.&#8221; \u00a0Browse the VPL&#8217;s photos for more engaging images of days past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The photo at left is from the VPL (a PHSC member). The cut line reads, &#8221;\u00a0100 years ago US and Canadian auto clubs met in Blaine, WA.\u00a0 Photo, Stuart Thomson January 26, 1918 &#8211; Vancouver Public Library&#8221;. A big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cars-and-photos-a-natural-combination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2060,220,4160],"class_list":["post-23932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cars","tag-photos","tag-vpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23939,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932\/revisions\/23939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}