Cadillac Corner, Santa Monica, CA.
Jurs Motors Co., Cadillac-Oldsmobile, Walnut Creek, CA.
Gilroy Motor Co., Cadillac-Oldsmobile, Gilroy, CA.
Allen Motor Co., Cadillac-Oldsmobile-Buick, Ames, IA.
Clarence Dixon Cadillac Inc., Hollywood, CA.
Fresno Motor Sales, Cadillac-Oldsmobile, Fresno, CA.
Barrie Bros., Cadillac-Oldsmobile, Patchogue, Long Island, NY.
Hill Crest Motor Co., Beverly Hills, CA.
Price Motors, Cadillac-Pontiac-GMC, Morristown, TN.
Henry Paul Cadillac, Wayne, PA.
Bayless Auto, Glendale, CA.
Reynolds Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Fort Collins, CO.
Samson Cadillac, Pittsburgh, PA.
Seems like a brilliant ploy to pair Cadillac and Oldsmobile together. They won’t bleed image / costs like a Cadillac / Buick dealer might.
In Iowa City, we had a large Cadillac-Buick-Chevrolet dealer. The Olds dealer was small, as was the Pontiac dealer.
Do you know the name of the dealer in Iowa City? I’ve just got hold of the build sheet for my 1959 Cadillac and the Outlet Code is “OWA”, so I’m guessing it went to the dealer in Iowa City. Would love to know who it is
Maybe Nall Motors? They had a Cadillac franchise as well as Chevrolet.
Yeah in smaller markets that might not be able to support a stand alone dealer higher on the ladder was to skip a step. So it wasn’t uncommon to Chev-Olds, Pontiac-Buick, Pontiac-Buick-GMC or as seen here Olds-Cadillac dealers in those markets.
So many lovely to tone cars in these ! .
Better than average looking dealerships too, I wonder if GM leaned on them to look sharp .
-Nate
Somebody traded their ’54 Clipper for a Caddy. Smart move but probably didn’t get much for it in ’60.
Actually, Barrie Cadillac was a Packard dealer not too long before this post card pic. So this might be a used car. I remember a few Packards on sight when I first started working there. (see next post)
FINALLY!! So happy to see Barrie Bros Cadillac – Oldsmobile in Patchogue, NY.
I took Auto Mechanics in high school and got a job as a mechanic there right out of school. Worked there for about a year and a half or so when I got invited to visit Vietnam. After that, wound up working in the telephone/cable industry for the next 44 years. Ah memories!
I love the Henry Paul Cadillac showroom with that green shag carpeting!
That was a new showroom at the time. Henry Paul moved there from a smaller facility in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia in 1969. They had only occupied that building for a few years – the building had been a Rambler dealer before and Henry Paul Cadillac took it over in 1965… an unusual transition for a car showroom. Oak Lane was declining as a neighborhood anyway, so the dealership built a new showroom on the more prosperous Main Line. They lasted there until about 1986.
I don’t remember Jurs Cadillac, maybe it was gone before I got there or cared about cars. If the building is still there it has been reworked so badly it’s no longer recognizable. 1800 Mt Diablo Blvd, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
It was demolished and the address doesn’t exist any more, 1800 now being in between two new-construction buildings.
Kinda looks like Paul Sorvino in the second to last picture.
For the mid-’70’s, he presents quite well. No ugly colour or pattern, in his suit. Shirt and tie, look fine. His hair is okay, for the day.
Interesting to see how many Caddy dealers were around the southern California area years ago. Today if you drive around the general LA and westside of LA (Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, etc), you won’t find just one Cadillac dealer. And that one looks like a hole in the wall and is kind of hidden at that.
Great collection, and supporting captions. Thank you!
My knowledge of Cadillac, started in the mid-70s. So, there is an association to tack. The showroom at Henry Paul Cadillac, seems a bit towards being too much. Perhaps more suited to ultra premium cars, like Rolls-Royce.
I could see Cadillac service departments being a bit tight for space. With the extreme lengths of most models, by the late ’60’s and ’70’s. The Seville would have been welcomed relief, in this regard.
Most of the buildings here, seem quite plebeian. Made fancier with plenty of signage, and Cadillac script typefaces. Certainly, less attempt made back then, to mask what they were.
Henry Paul Cadillac.
Interestingly, at that time Philadelphia (where Henry Paul was located) did have an ultra-premium car dealer – and it in was a very ordinary building.
Keenan Motors sold Mercedes, Rolls-Royce and Aston-Martin and was located in a pretty rough section of town, in a ordinary-looking building that had formerly been a Studebaker dealer. I think the ultra-rich at that time – especially in aristocratic Philadelphia – didn’t necessarily clamor for up-to-date luxuries.
The image below is the only one I could find of Keenan’s showroom at that time – a grainy image, but aside from the cars, it looks like any other dealership of the day.
( I replied earlier, but there was a time-out, as I was posting. Comment may have been lost.)
I was always surprised the manufacturers waited so long, to become involved in how dealers branded, and presented, themselves. Right after WWII, would have been a sensible time. As their dealership network was expanding, to also ensure dealers and dealerships, met their standards of presentation and marketing.
I have previously shared a image with you, of a BMW dealer here in Ottawa, that uses a former Red Barn fast food restaurant location, as a a car storage facility. The building architecture makes it obvious.
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Jurs Motors Walnut Creek. At 1800 Mt. Diablo and S. California. Now a six story office building. When parents moved to Orinda the way into Walnut Creek was via Mt. Diablo off CA24. North Main exit not built yet. Can’t recall what was at that site in the summer of 1972.
A friend formerly from LA made me aware of HILLCREST Cadillac. Deciding, based on my Love of California and Cadillac, I carefully assembled a front vanity plate with HILLCREST CADILLAC above the wreath and Crest image with BEVERLEE HILLS below. After my last Cadillac, It now rides proudly on the front of my LINCOLN Town Car. Driving in the Midwest, that plate adds mystique and much attention. Pardon me,Me, you have any Grey Poupon? 😉
This postcard :
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Reminded me instantly of Suburban Cadillac, off East Main St. in Stamford CT where I grew up:
Sadly, every good town planning committee knows more tax revenues come from multi-unit condominiums than from one large business place. Not to mention, Stamford seems to have a ‘thing’ against dealerships and other automotive-related establishments on its main thoroughfares.
Cadillac Corner and Bayless Auto aren’t franchised Cadillac dealers but independent used car dealers specializing in Caddys and sailing close to the wind of trademark infringement. “CADILLACS”, plural, describing what’s on the lot rather than implying they represent the Cadillac Motor Car Division.
That worked for them until it didn’t, with the cease and desists probably arriving from Detroit around the same time, to Daniel’s point, that GM finally did start standardizing dealer signage and branding.
Price Motors in Morristown may be long gone, but the building is still standing, and looks mighty original:
Thanks for clearing that up for me! I have seen that picture of ‘Cadillac Corner’, which appears to be at 1923 Wilshire Blvd.. That location was very close to where Martin Cadillac/Oldsmobile was at the time, 1115 Wilshire Blvd.. Didn’t make sense that there would be two franchised dealerships so close to one another. There was a somewhat famous independent Cadillac dealership on La Brea in Hancock Park also named ‘Cadillac Corner’, I wonder if this dealership was affiliated.
That picture of Hillcrest Motors surreal.
Wow! A (no more), “Pittsburgh PA” dealer! Nice to see my part of the world here.
We were an Olds family. Dad, who went to Iowa State on the GI Bill and worked for a 400 company drove Rocket 88s in my 50s-60s childhood, traded in every four years. In 68, year I started high school he got the new 69 model 98 in September (he always bought when the new models came out cuz they were eager to move them out onto the streets). When Olds was killed he switched to Caddy CTS’s. Dad died at 92 in 2017. Mom drove the station wagons and I remember my brother joking a few years back when self parking cars were introduced that if you learned to drive on a Vista Cruiser you didn’t need help parking anything they make today.
Wasn’t Bayliss Auto the Cadillac dealership in the infamous crash scene in the original ‘Gone in Sixty Seconds’?
No, that was Moran Cadillac on Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance CA.. The location is now a Penske Cadillac/Buick/GMC dealer.
Love these old Cadillac dealer photos. I used to haunt Valley Cadillac at 333 East Avenue in Rochester New York in the 60’s and 70’s. Wish I could find photos of there. It had large Bronze placks that said Cadillac and La Salle Automobiles above the windows.
Pretty sure that the dealership shown from Ames Iowa is not Allen motor company of Ames, possibly Allens of Cedar Rapids Iowa. There were no streets in Ames that wide at that time. The Allen dealership in Ames was located on 5th Street which is quite narrow
The gentleman standing alongside the yellow DeVille in the 2nd-to-last photo reminds me of “Mayor Vaughn” (played by Murray Hamilton), when he stood beside the Caddy that he drove aboard the Chappaquiddick…..er, i mean “Amityville” ferry, in the movie Jaws. Btw, if you look at the license plate on Mayor Vaughn’s car, it has a Massachusetts plate – even though he’s supposed to be the mayor of a town in New York! (if it were an Amphicar, then maybe we could say the Mayor commuted from Martha’s Vineyard, Ma to Amityville, Long Island to get to work everyday😄)
I always browse these pictures, but I never see any from Wisconsin.