Martin Pontiac Cadillac, Lancaster, CA.
Morton Cadillac, Charleston, WV.
Lone Star Cadillac Oldsmobile, Dallas, TX.
1960 Biarritz at Peter Fuller Cadillac/Oldsmobile showroom, Boston, MA.
Les Bierk, Cadillac, Elmhurst, IL.
Les Bierk, used car lot.
Mitchell Cadillac, Bay City, MI.
Heintz Pontiac Cadillac, Mankato, MN.
Coffey Cadillac, Ann Arbor, MI.
Heritage Cadillac, Lombard, IL.
Heritage Cadillac, Lombard, IL.
Don Lee Cadillac, San Francisco, CA.
Peter Fuller Cadillac was on car row on Commonwealth Ave in Boston. He was joined by Clark and White Lincoln Mercury and other dealerships back in the day.
Nice assortment of pictures. I enjoy looking at old photos such as these.
The picture taken at Fuller Cadillac reminds me of new car model introductions from 50s and 60s. I recall the media onslaught to get people into the showrooms on that “special day” to see the new…the beautiful,,,the restyled…(insert make, model here). A Who will be the first to drive home a new model car?
The past decades have produced way more than enough new car models without the new car hype. So many that are just the same model with a different division’s name on it. Meh.
Man, looking at those old pictures and seeing the stunning Cadillac cars instead of all these ugly boxes (SUV’s) today, makes me want to vomit.
I’ve loved Cadillac since I was 10 years old. I find the “offerings” of today to be pathetic and sad. The Escalade is the biggest grift known to man (at least in the auto world). IMO, it’s worse than the Cimarron. All they do is gussy up a Chevy Tahoe and charge a 25 grand premium. The sad thing is that people fall for it.
Bring back classy dealership showrooms and bring back some true Cadillac cars.
I’m old enough to remember the Lone Star dealer in Dallas as a kid.. Had miles of incredible neon of many colors. I”m fairly sure it was on Lemon Ave or Mockingbird Lane.
Likely torn down mid 70’s and Lone Star moved to the suburbs, and eventually closed as they couldn’t compete with Dallas’s Cadillac mega dealer Sewell Village.
The ironically named Lemon Ave was the address of many new car dealers in it’s haydsy from the 40’s to 70’s., even Rolls Royce was there. Then many BHPH’s into the early 2000’s as Lemon Ave declined, then disappeared as most of the buildings were torn down to make room for unaffordable luxury apartments, trendy restaurants and boutiques.
The Morton Cadillac building in Charleston is still standing. I think this building was used as a Packard dealership before Cadillac – it remained a Cadillac building (though under different names) until the 1980s, and afterwards served as a Volvo dealership for a while.
The address is 1311 Virginia St. E.
StreetView link:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FuJUckLLXzycaWFt8
Don Lee Cadillac, San Francisco. Don Lee was not only the Cadillac dealer but the Cadillac distributor for the region. When he gave up the business, Cadillac Motor Car Division took it over. Later it contracted out its dealership to Kohlenberg Cadillac in this building, and Fazackerly Cadillac in a newer building in Stonestown, on the southwestern outskirts of The City. This building, from 1921, survives as a theater.
Image from a comment in an earlier CC post about Cadillac dealers.
Here’s what I could find:
Martin Pontiac Cadillac, Lancaster, CA. (I can’t tell which corner this existed on.)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/NXQ1FziqSBGk6HLB6
Morton Cadillac, Charleston, WV.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bm2yXwoFcZtwS4Np6
Lone Star Cadillac Oldsmobile, Dallas, TX.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3DSVB2og4LWMVVaB6
Les Bierk, Cadillac, Elmhurst, IL. (this is the used car lot)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MaiXHGQcdcJNJGeG6
Coffey Cadillac, 502 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, Mi
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gnoKq2wWRw6krUJx9