Otto North Carolina – Americana Collection
A palette of primer, discolored paint, and rust mottle the right front of a 1951 Buick Super Eight as time attempts to oxidize the antique car. Recent disuse is exemplified by the flat right front tire.
Otto North Carolina – Americana Collection
Antique cars are fascinating, especially those rusty survivors from a time of steel instead of polymers exemplified by this 1951 Buick Super Eight. Think about it; Tupperware became a party in 1951. Guinness began keeping World Records that year. By comparison, Golds Gym opened in 1951 and declared bankruptcy in 2020. Sadly, vehicles of the Buick brand were last produced by General Motors last year.
This 69 year-old Buick Super Eight was sighted near US23 in Otto, North Carolina, just three months ago. Now, because of the global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), producing COVID-19, a disease apparently unknown in 1951, this Buick and that rainy March 2020 day in Macon County NC seem so long ago.
Dekle Beach Florida – Americana Collection
A Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa stands out in the crowd of seabirds on a pier in Dekle Beach on the Florida Gulf Coast. When this image was captured the phrase "physical social distancing" was barely known. Now, during the pandemic spread of the SARS-CoV2 novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, this collection of birds serves as a reminder for everyone to keep a safe distance from others to avoid illness or death. We are all in this together.
