Seventy years ago today, Lorain was enjoying the third and final day of the Lorain Auto Show. Above is the front page of the
Lorain Journal of March 27, 1955. Held at the Lorain Arena, it was the city's first auto show in 25 years.
The Lorain Journal included a special Auto Show section that day. Here are a few select pages. (I made sure to include the page about Oldsmobiles.)
The page above about the Jeep reminded me of something that happened at work recently. A co-worker had recently purchased a Jeep, and I asked her if she was going to get a wheel cover with Popeye's pet Jeep on it. She had never heard of him. In fact no one in the room had. I guess it doesn't take very long for a once, well-known cartoon character to slip out of the public consciousness.
It's kind of sad that the ninth-largest city in Ohio has no venue for an Auto Show these days. In fact, there aren't any new car dealers in Lorain, since the last two vamoosed out to Avon.
4 comments:
Your friend who never heard of the Jeep character is probably the type who will put a whole bunch of rubber duckie toys on the dash of her new Jeep.It's a thing that Jeep owners do. The only duck I think of is "Rubber Duck" from the old trucker movie Convoy starring Kris Kristofferson.
Wonderful posts, even if I did have to read about Oldsmobiles. ;] I'm torn between the Willys Universal Jeep, their truck, or the Thunderbird. Alas... The last is no longer built and the other two are now nothing more than monstrous abominations of their true selves.
The source for the movie...
https://youtu.be/d9BWlGP_DJw?feature=shared
The Thunderbird was great, but I'd have to go with the Cadillac Eldorado and its trend-setting fins.
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