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| 1952 and 1954 plates found in shed |
Back in the early 1950s, when Stan spent summers with Ruby and Al Korkowski on their Brandon farm, Al would boast constantly that a Ford is better than a Chevy. Those were the days when you could tell the difference between makes and models... a Studebaker looked a lot different from a Buick. . . so there was a lot of identification with your car, much like people identify with pro sports teams today.
Al and Ruby's Ford would take us to the movies on a Saturday night and we could see and readily identify all the different kinds of cars parked on Broadway.
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1950 Ford |
Dad drove a '49 Dodge with fluid drive back then. Al diplomatically avoided any comments on its virtue. But
Fords? Always much better than a Chevy, Al said, and Stan quickly joined his hero in that astute assessment.
Stan and his sister, Solveig, visited the old farmstead last weekend. The new owner showed us around the spread, including a shed where Stan recalls the Ford was parked. Inside was an assortment of license plates. We found these (above), from 1952 and 1954, and Solveig snapped a picture of the plates that must have been bolted to Ruby and Al's memorable Ford.
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| Al and Ruby's barn today. |
