As the Journal article above notes, "A four-wheel stake and rack trailer, built 47 years ago for one of the first customers of Fruehauf Corporation, has become a permanent display piece at the giant Fruehauf plant here.
"The trailer, equipped with solid rubber tires and wooden spoke wheels, was reconditioned to look like new for its final resting place in the concourse leading from the administration building to the plant.
"Josef Weber, plant manager, said the trailer of two and one-half ton capacity is a far cry from modern Fruehauf semi-trailers of aluminum and steel capable of carrying payloads in excess of 25 tons.
"The antique trailer was built in 1918 in Detroit by August Fruehauf, founder of the corporation, and his fellow workers for the Ogden and Moffett Co. of Port Huron, Mich.
"It was used for many years hauling general freight between Port Huron and Detroit.
"When the company redesigned its building in the late 1950's, no suitable place could be found for the old trailer.
"The company contacted the late Harry Fruehauf, a son of the founder, and arrangements were made for the trailer to be turned over to the Fruehauf organization in 1958 at a sales conference in Detroit.
"After being consigned to an outside area for several years, Fruehauf officials decided it should be on permanent display at the Avon Lake plant, the largest trailer assembly facility in the world."
I often forget that my mother was working at that plant as a secretary when she married Dad in 1950.
Click here to visit the website of the Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society.
****
Anyway, the rest of that 1965 Journal page has plenty of ads related to topics that I've written about over the years, including Steve Polansky Market; the Hoop Family Restaurants; Benny's China Gate on West Erie; Manners Restaurants; and Ohio Edison.
What? No ad appearance by Reddy Kilowatt?
There's some interesting movies as well, including the great Elvis in Roustabout and one I saw recently on the Outlaw channel: The Rounders, with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda.
 |
| It sure looks like Elvis was just retouched into this photo. |
Hard to believe Barbara Stanwyck is in Roustabout, I'm used to seeing her co-star with the great Joel McCrea in some wonderful Westerns. And I like that pretty Joan Freeman. Any actress that co-stars with the Three Stooges is okay in my book.
 |
| From "The Three Stooges Go Around The World in a Daze." |
2 comments:
THE ROUNDERS was a tv show for a short while. I catch the movie whenever it airs, as it is, IMHO, the funniest Western after THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB.
I remember reading in The Lorain Journal about a person who lived in Sheffield Lake who actually owned the motordrome from the movie Roustabout.Something like it was someone's father or uncle who worked on the movie,and they somehow got the motordrome or it was his to start with.The motordrome was that barrel shaped enclosure that Elvis rode a motorcycle on the walls in,round and round.Maybe a reader can offer some more info on it.
Post a Comment