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I was 18 years old then, and did hang out in that area a bit. Still, the cars look so old compared to what I'm used to now.

So weird seeing cars on church st, other than morning delivery trucks and confused tourists.

The orange car looks like a Yugo to me but the tail-lights don't seem to match. Been so long since I've seen one in person.

My first thought was an old Datsun. Remember those? I'll see if I can find a pic for comparison online.

That's more likely or an old Civic hatchback (though again I think the tail-lights are wrong for that).

If you have more of these, my mother loves seeing pics from her youth, would love more

Look up the 1979 Ford Fiesta. Looks pretty damn close.

Definitely the 79 fiesta. I found on on google that's a perfect match, right down to the color.

Back when cars could freely roam the broad and concrete plains of Church Street! Pity the poor stores whose business suffered when automobiles were banned from their storefronts! Nay! Let this be an example to all cities who would pick the pedestrian over the automobile and Socialism over Capitalism!

I lived just around the corner on North Winooski…. I earned $2.73 per hour and was able to put myself through nursing school at UVM…. I remember when they started tearing up Church St. to create the pedestrian zones….

Looking for my 1971 VW 411 that was my ride then. The following year they started bricking the thing over and turned it into a pedestrian mall. One of the mason tenders hooked up with one of my housemates. That's all I've got.

> 79 fiesta

Haha yup, third picture was the orange one.

And (old) people say cars today all look alike.

I lived on the second floor of the white building the following year!!!!

From right to left you have a Fiesta, Subaru, Datsun 210 (maybe), Chevette, Cadillac, and a big Ford Wagon the best I can tell.

What a difference between then (traffic on Church St) and now! I recall the outcry about "where are my customers going to park?" Now the volume of shoppers is soooo much greater. Not sure why other places don't catch on.

People seemed to really like driving old cars back in the day, huh? Saw some black and white photos and those guys were driving, like, crazy old cars that you rarely ever see today. If that trend keeps up, then maybe some day a few decades from now we'll even be driving the cars of the future! Really makes you think...

Just before the Church Street marketplace was put in.

I remember this. Kids would just cruise around the block endlessly till late at night. Woolworths was a dive coffee counter. Ben & Jerry’s ice cream didn’t exist and Gordon Paquette had just lost the mayoral election to Liberty Union candidate Bernie Sanders. Oh, and the pit hadn’t been dug out for the Underground Mall.

I remember a guy who had an old Cadillac that had a VW beetle kind of morfed on to the back of it. I even remember his license plate. JMAN. Ha!

Awesome to see a Ford Fiesta in the wild.

I'm so used to seeing 'urbanhell' pictures of historic downtowns being demolished for roads/freeways, etc. It's refreshing to see movement occur the other way around!

B&J barely existed. Started in 1978. Still on College/St Paul at this point.

They were great cars imported from Europe and very popular. Ford introduced it in a huge rush to replace the Pinto after the exploding-Pinto scandal killed that nameplate, and the new US-spec Escort wasn’t ready yet. Then when they launched the Escort they pulled the plug on the Fiesta. The Escort was a worse car in every way.

Yeah, now mostly all of the “customers” are connecticunts and other tourists because nearly all of the stores are over priced gimmick-slingers! I mean you seriously can’t take a beat without spotting an out of stater on either side of you with an armful or two of overpriced retail merchandise! Woo hoo!

I owned a series of 4 Fiestas. The cheapest one I got for $175, the most expensive one was $400. My parents had an Escort which was a problematic car.

Might be a Dodge Omni

2 months before I was born

Yeah out of staters spending money here is bad because…?

The difference between your POV and mine might be that you think things like “money” and “spending it” are things that contribute to the greater good

Nice Saab 99.