Old photos uncovered

I’ve just fallen in love with the photoblog Shorpy, which mines through personal and Library of Congress archives to uncover great old photographs, like this one, a view of a wooden-track speedway in 1925:

There are hundreds of pages of photos, too many to even begin to scratch the surface here. Bookmark it, visit again and again. Great stuff.

And, if you’re interested, the name Shorpy has an interesting history.