Displays in windows of different stores in New York City, United States. A woman serves fresh oysters at a shop. Sign reads, "Fresh Long Island Oysters". A restaurant with sign "B/G. A meal a minute" and a chef turning chickens on a rotisserie. A pizza maker tosses a large crust into the air as onlookers watch him through the restaurant window. Numerous watches on display in the window of a jewelry shop. A man at work in the shop. At a cobbler shop, a sign on a window reads 'Ripple soles'. Cooks grilling steaks over a grated fire in a restaurant.
Modern new office building architecture in the United States in the late 1950s. Building of the Hewlett Packard Corporation at Stanford Industrial Park (later renamed Stanford Research Park) in Palo Alto, California, at the time of the birth of Silicon Valley. 1950s cars of Hewlett Packard (HP) workers in the parking lot. Exterior views of Hewlett Packard company buildings. A truck driven past the plant. A tile wall at the facility. Inside a building: View of a Hewlett Packard oscilloscope. Number "75452" seen in upper left of unit. Behind the unit is seen a production plant floor with women and men technicians building HP electronic equipment. Wider view of the production and assembly floor. A woman worker poses with a circuit board in her hands. Camera pans up to show her. Large painted abstract colors and artwork on walls of the production plant. The woman who had held the circuit board turns away and is seen operating a piece of equipment. Another view of the plant or factory floor with workers. Exterior view of a forklift loading boxes, with HP logo visible on them, into back of a waiting truck. Scene changes to exterior views of what appears to be a part of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan: A surface parking lot filled with employee 1950s cars, a sloped berm up to office buildings, including a brick laboratory building with vertical fins, pedestrian approaches, and landscaped plazas. Additional shots show other modern corporate or institutional research buildings of similar mid-century American architectural style; exact locations unidentified. One of these mid 1950s U.S. buildings shows a General Electric (GE) logo.
Cars in Florida, United States. A sign reads 'Congested Slow Area'. Cars move along a road. Cars pulling into the drive-in banking lanes of the First National Bank. A teller counting out money for a customer.
People arrive at a fast food restaurant, "Billy's Hamburgers" in Florida, United States. Cars arriving at the drive-in restaurant with curb service. Waitresses serve food and snacks to people seated in a car. Three women talk to each other. A woman eats a hamburger. A waitress with a tray walks away after serving the women. A waitress dispensing change from a belt mounted changer.
People arrive at a drive-in movie theater in Florida, United States. Cars pulling into the entrance of the drive-in theatre. A movie playing on a cinema screen. Cars parked in front of the screen.
People arrive at a roadside motel in Florida, United States. Variety of 1950's cars including Ford, Chevrolet, and others moving along a road. The automobiles pulling in to various motel driveways. A sign reads 'Motel Vacancy Air Conditioned Pool'. Parking lot of the motel with cars in it. Cars move along a highway in Florida.
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