Above is one of the latter; it ran in the paper on September 1, 1955.
That's some pretty nice clip art of old-fashioned clowns that you might see in a circus. There's a nice variety of them, and they all look friendly and happy. It's a shame that the only place kids seem to see clowns these days are in a horror environment.
Spitzer noted in the ad, they had sold 117 new Dodges the previous week. I guess that's not too surprising, seeing as their ads boasted that Spitzer was the "World's largest Dodge-Plymouth Dealer."
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Dodge is one of those car brands that I was never too familiar with. As I've mentioned many times, we were an Olds family, and several of my best friends' fathers worked at Ford, and bought only Fords.
But the funny thing is, when I see a Dodge on the road these days, I really like the way they're designed.
$96 for a '46 Ford! I can't buy one tire for that price today.
ReplyDeleteOver in Pennsyltucky, where we could watch Cleveland's 3, 5, & 8 (and 61 & 43), as a kid, I knew all about Spitzer and his car stealerships. I even bought a car from them, once I was all growed up, and took a car to them for repair a couple times, but I never cared for them, much.
ReplyDeleteI also knew that Ed Mullinax was a friend of mine, but the person I always, wanted to meet was C. Miller ("Come see Miller, that's me! See the USA in a C. Miller Chevrolet!) MMWaaa!")
I always liked Chrysler products,and got it through my grandfather who always bought Imperials.He always wanted the best that Chrysler offered.I retired from Ford but I always drove a Dodge up from my first day at the plant through my very last day 31 years later.And my father before me worked at Ford but he drove,you guessed it Dan,an Oldsmobile.Later on he switched to Chrysler products.But neither of us ever bought a new Ford.Never even entertained the thought of going to a Ford dealership to look at any new Ford product.
ReplyDeleteSome of you may ask why bite the hand that feeds you?Well alot of that goes back to the once mighty UAW.They would always protect the bad worker.The UAW would protect the drunks and druggies of the plant and go out of their way by giving the company legitimate grievances that the real hard worker should've won in order to get these people their jobs back.I've had numerous grievances of mine just completely thrown out in order to get some drug addict their job back.Plus some other workers would also drive a foreign car to work.And some of those foreign car drivers were in fact some of those very same drug addicts that the UAW would protect.So that just turned me against the whole flag waving support your company blah,blah,blah.So I just kept on doing my job and counted the days till my retirement.
And you're correct Dan,Dodge has some very good designs.A few years ago I bought a brand new "23 Challenger R/T.Dodge knows how to do retro and the Challenger has that in spades.
Speaking of the Spitzer auto dealership, after the American Shipbuilding Company closed, Del Spitzer proposed building docks at the abandoned shipyard site for pleasure craft such as motor and sailboats.
ReplyDeleteMy sister, ever the wiseacre, suggested that it be named "Marina del Spitzer." But it wasn't.
https://youtu.be/79IDaxUp-xQ?feature=shared
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