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As always, nice pics and thanks.
Funny how so many have people sitting/standing on the hoods of these cars! Imagine doing that today on one of our $60K automobiles!! My dad would have a coronary!

The pic with the ferry looks very similar to the old G.A. Boeckling ferry that ran out of Sandusky Ohio for years. Long destroyed now before a group could restore it.

The one in the town of Stuttgart makes me wonder if it wasn't founded by a bunch of Germans?

That '14 lives a hard life ! Running the hammer mill demonstrator and chasing fair gigs.
Just because I've been two years building a new dashboard for my '13, I'm amused to see the one on this car delaminating ! I wonder how old it is in this picture ? Non-Skid Firestones look fairly new - when were they discontinued ? Anyone know ?

Ninth photo down - "wings" on the Ford script, short filler neck and a finned cap. How early ? You could almost see through the radiator whether it has a water pump !

Thanks Tom, these photos are such a pleasure !!

Great pics, as always. Thank you for posting.

Stuttgart, Ark. Main St.

Found the building that the pic is viewing.

It is at 398 S. Main St. on street view, Google maps.

Brickwork and striping remains intact. Upper windows are now boarded over. Most of the front-work decoration is gone now. The buildings that extend down the block from this main building also seem to be intact, although it is hard to see if they are there specifically, as it is hard to see detail on them.

Rich- the one running the mill reminds me of Old Car Festival this year. We put a Centennial (one of the ones built in 2003) on a "Henry's Helper"- a device ran off the back wheels of a T as a sort of "PTO" to power something- in our case I think it was a corn sheller or some other sort of grain mill.

I'd never heard of one until we did the setup at OCF. It would be a cool accessory to have, it could power anything such as a sawmill, etc.

And Tom, thanks as always for the pictures!

v/r,
jason

I wonder why the reflection in the windshield of the first car doesn’t match the sign on the wall?

Dale M, Looking at the photo, the car is parked roughly parallel to the building's wall, and about fifteen to twenty feet out away from the building. The windshield is roughly perpendicular to the building in the level plane, however leaning back in the third dimension. Given the approximate distances and angles, the sign reflected in the windshield should be about ten to fifteen feet forward of the sign next to the car, and about five or more feet higher than the sign we can see tacked onto the wall. The company name is the same, but other wording different, and the reflected sign is likely painted onto the wall (or a backboard?), while the sign beside the car and demonstration appears to be on canvas tacked onto the wall.
The sign reflected in the windshield is otherwise out of the frame of the photo.