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“Pic of the Week”, January 1, 2015: DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin
Despite some bad publicity recently, the Volkswagen company owns some very impressive car labels. There’s much, much more to the company in the 21st century than the famous “beetle” — the people’s car — that drove its success in the 20th century.
When visiting Berlin a few months back, my brother and I walked down “Unter den Linden”, one of the city’s famous streets. The street is a wide boulevard known for its lovely linden trees. Apparently Hitler wanted to use the street for Nazi parades so he cut down all the linden trees and put up Nazi flags in their place. The people protested and, in one of the few compromises Der Fuhrer ever made, replanted the trees. They are …
Dec 31, 2015
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.All Trips / Alberta / Car Culture / Central Canada / North America
Gasoline Alley, Calgary: The Cars and Trucks
Besides its extensive collection of antique gasoline pumps and signs, Calgary’s Gasoline Alley museum has a fascinating assortment of cars and trucks! Many of these are unique, at least in my experience, as they were mostly collected from vehicles driven in Alberta. As such, you’ll see more trucks than at most car museums because trucks were (and still are) very important to Alberta’s economy.
What follows are several galleries of photos of my favorite vehicles in Gasoline Alley’s collection — far from everything! For the sake of organization and no other reason, I’ve divided them by year of manufacturing, the oldest first with newer vehicles to follow. I could just as easily have divided them by brand, trucks versus …
Tagged Calgary, car culture, cars, Gasoline Alley, trucks
.All Trips / Alberta / Central Canada / North America
Gasoline Alley, Calgary: The World’s largest collection of Car-related Signs and Pumps
Little did I know when I moved to Calgary a few years ago that this city has one of the finest car museums in North America. Situated in a 75,000 sq ft building known as “Gasoline Alley”, within Heritage Park, is a collection donated by local oil and gas businessman, Ron Carey. Mr. Carey collected and restored the 67 vehicles he gave to the city, many of which are trucks. But perhaps the real highlight of his gift is what’s said to be the largest collection of petroliana in the world — restored pumps and automotive-related signage.
This is the first post of a two-part series sharing some of the automotive treasures of Gasoline Alley, and focuses on the …
Tagged car culture, cars, gasoline, gasoline pumps, pumps, signage, Signs, trucks
.All Trips / Alberta / Car Culture / Central Canada / North America
Cars of the Big and Small Screen. Hollywood comes to Calgary!
The exhibit was called: “Stars of the Big and Small Screen. See the Cars that were the Stars”…. and it was an interesting collection of American Steel. Free popcorn, guided tours, free movies (Herbie the Love Bug was playing the day I visited), costumes for kids to dress up in themed to go with the cars — it was designed to be a fun activity for a family. And it was fun!
Calgary has an automobile museum known as “Gasoline Alley” which is located in Heritage Park. I’d not visited this museum before but when I heard about this special Hollywood-themed exhibit (the first event rolled out for the 50th anniversary celebration of the park), I thought it’s time to be …
Tagged Calgary, car culture, cars, Gasoline Alley, Heritage Park
