Direktlänk till inlägg 4 augusti 2021
Monday night Mom decided to look for an inexpensive motel because we were in a larger city. The neighborhood of the hotel was located in an "iffy" area but the bed!!!!!! wow .............Mom was worried about losing me in this giant bed.............she really didn't have to worry, because I like to snuggle as close as I can
In the morning it was time for me to put my vest on and go to work. We were going to the Henry Ford museum.
Henry Ford founded the museum on October 21, 1929, and the 523,000 square-foot building was designed by architect Robert O. Derrick.
From the Model T to the civil rights icon Rosa Parks bus, the Henry Ford Museum highlights a wide range of great exhibits that people from all over the world thoroughly enjoy
This is a picture of the factory from a tower and shows part of the 2000 acres.
We did walk around looking down at workers assembling trucks but we weren't allowed any pictures there
This is the lobby of the factory
Mom took so many pictures of cars and tried to remember background stories but her memory stinks so for more information She said to tell you to use google and Wikipedia.....................kind of rude me thinks
There were a lot of airplanes there too
Richard Byrd flew this airplane toward the North Pole on May 9, 1926. Though Byrd generally is credited with reaching the pole, controversy remains. Edsel Ford financed the expedition, and Byrd acknowledged his patron by naming the plane after Ford's daughter Josephine.
aeronautical engineer Arthur Raymond flew cross-country aboard a Ford trimotor in 1932
He remembered it well, "That trip was an experience I'll never forget. They gave us cotton to stuff in our ears, the Tin Goose was so noisy The thing vibrated so much it shook the eyeglasses right off your nose. In order to talk with the guy across the aisle, you had to shout at the top of your lungs.The higher we went to get over the mountains, the colder it got inside the cabin.My feet nearly froze. The lavatory in the tail was so small that you could barely squeeze through the door
The leather-upholstered wicker back chairs were as comfortable as lawn furniture, and they were so narrow they pinched....when the plane landed on a puddle splotched runway, a spray of mud sucked in by the cabin air vents splattered everybody...........Mom promised they fixed all that stuff by the time I'll be flying to Sweden.
at this exhibit, they were showing a film about how they used to walk on the wing to show off.................... Knowing Mom's crazy ways I made sure to put my paw down so she wouldn't get any stupid ideas of trying it. There WAS a room where you could try out how it feels.............
more cars and cars and cars
this thing is another car????
Mom would LOVE to have this camper, but we probably couldn't have been driving as far as we have now
American 50ies nostalgia
Mom was looking at this bike for a very loooooong time, and I think I noticed a smile and maybe a little wet in her eyes.............wonder what THAT was all about?....................if it only was red Mom sighed
cars cars cars
There were trains there too and this was a BEAST.
#1601 was one of the first ten 2-6-6-6locomotives built for the Chesapeake &Ohio by Lima in 1941.
Designed to work over Allegheny Mountains on C&O's Clifton forge Division
The locomotives were named "Alleghenies" and of only 60 built this is one of the only two to survive.
We walked and walked and walked, this place is huge. As usual, I was on my best behavior trotting along with Mom wearing my west. I was surprised that no one came to pet me like they usually do? Mom said it's because I'm working and people respect your vest ................oh well, can we take it off then? not until we're out of here she said, or I would have to stay in the car.........ok I'll wear it
racecars
there was also a section of old farm equipment, and if it wasn't for signs telling what it was used for Mom would have no clue.
two pictures are steam engines used for ????
this gigantic contraption was a tomato picking machine ????
and the cast iron stoves looked awesome, so ornate and practical to heat and cook on in the old days
The first Wienermobile was created by Oscar Mayer's nephew, Carl G. Mayer, in 1936.
Wienermobiles are in current use by the Oscar Mayer company. Wienermobile drivers are known as Hotdoggers and often hand out toy whistles, which are shaped like a Wiener.
There are six of them currently driving around the US, according to Oscar Mayer. The Wienermobile from 1969 had a
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