In Pennsylvania 1970, fire chiefs getting new chrysler wagons

[sauterd]

 

[75LandYacht]

That’s cool.. wonder where the Wagons are now?

 

[polara71]

Reading PA ..... probably still close to home. I'm betting one has survived with lettering long gone

 

[GJS]

I miss that blue and white signage that was on almost all car dealerships. I know it wasn't the pretty, high design stuff of the earlier part of the century but there's something so satisfying about it. Like a process blue thermograph on ivory card stock business card.

 

[330dTA]

Wait a second... those have a Newport grille & trim! The regular Town & Country had a New Yorker grill and moldings in ’69, in ’70, and in ’71.

 

[Carmine]

I miss that blue and white signage that was on almost all car dealerships. I know it wasn't the pretty, high design stuff of the earlier part of the century but there's something so satisfying about it. Like a process blue thermograph on ivory card stock business card.

I'd like to know what Javier thinks, but I personally think the modern Chrysler store is some of the worst architecture in the industry. The atrium window looks like it came from a sleazy hotel chain that failed in the early 90s. This isn't even a nice cell phone store:

Compared to Ford:

 

[Imperialist67]

All the new dealers are bloated, and cheesy looking, like they're trying to mimic the jumbo-big-box chain store............I still prefer the earlier "mid-century modest" style with the fire chiefs.

 

[commando1]

I despise the architecture of all the makers. Horrid. Absolutely grotesque.
Cold. Uninviting. You feel the chill as if you're entering the dentist's office with periodontal disease .

The building needs to be brick and it needs lots of neon.

 

[GJS]

They just look like every other retail building: meant to be torn down in 20 years on the absolute outside.

 

[70NEWYORKER]

Cookie cutter crap completely devoid of any individualistic character.

 

[Carmine]

I tend to agree they all suck. It's not that I think the Ford buildings look great, it's just that it at least looks like an architect breathed on it. The Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram/Mopar building looks like it was built from a Florida sunroom kit.

 

[commando1]

Before Lexus was introduced, Toyota did a ton of research to totally rethink the architecture, signage, showroom design, and customer experience (perception). They changed the landscape, literally.
Now every showroom looks like the original Lexus stores.

 

[commando1]

Fuller Cadillac - Oldsmobile on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Was in there as a kid. Blew me away. What an elegant showroom.

 

[amazinblue82]

detroit had many dealership buildings with character:

Dalgleish Buick 1930's, then Cadillac well into the 1980's, then disrepair, then some repurposing by Wayne State University (vision when done) for $100 Million.

Original designed by Albert Kahn, who has many signature industrial buildings in Detroit and elsewhere: Albert Kahn (architect) - Wikipedia.

 

[commando1]

Thi is all I saw at first.