PPLD Historic Photo of the Day, 7/1/11: Old Car Yard

By On July 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In A Big Something, Photography, PPLD Historic Photo of the Day


([Old Car Yard] by Myron Wood, January 1975. Copyright Pikes Peak Library District, Courtesy of Special Collections. Image Number: 002-3199.)

Large tree with Pikes Peak behind and auto junkyard in foreground.

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