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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. |
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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.) |