Ten weeks later, he was in Cambridge, Ohio.  He had taken a new job at Charles H. Sipe's Chevrolet-Cadillac-LaSalle dealership at 1023 Wheeling Avenue.  It was a much larger company, and he worked there for 14 years, marrying and having a son (me) during that time.

This picture is dated April 15, 1938, which was Good Friday.  The townspeople were gathered in front of the garage for the Northwest Territory Parade (right), celebrating the 150th anniversary of the April 1788 arrival of the first American settlers in what is now Ohio.  They founded a town on the Ohio River 40 miles south of Cambridge and named it Marietta, in honor of Marie Antoinette, the queen of our ally France.


Above is a wider view taken a few years later.  The "Garage" sign, which in 1938 hung out over the street from a curbside General Tire pole to the left of "Lights Focused," now hangs over the sidewalk to the left of "Battery Service."  The vehicle on the right, under the OK'd Used Cars and Trucks sign, is exiting the passageway leading from the service department in the back.  (I found this photo on the website of the dealership that currently occupies the building, Cambridge Classic Ford.  There I also learned that the structure was originally built in 1925 as a Buick-Cadillac dealership.)