It's either "everything old is new again" or a flash of déjà vu this week for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, as another blogger contributes a topic that Randy Seaver has covered previously.
Here is your assignment, if you choose to play along (cue the Mission: Impossible! music, please!):
1. What automobile models did your ancestors have? Pick an ancestor and share something about his cars.
2. Share your information about your ancestor's car(s) in your own blog post, write a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system. Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.
NOTE: I can use ideas for different SNGF topics. Please e-mail me (randy.seaver@gmail.com).
Thank you to Lisa Gorrell for this week's SNGF challenge topic.
Randy asked us about family cars on November 25, 2017, and I wrote a very detailed post about our cars then, with comments from my father about even more cars, including many of which I had no memory. That post is here.
Since then I have not added any new vehicles, although I do keep thinking about finding another motorycle for myself. Maybe this summer I'll do that.
I have followed up on one thing my father wrote: He and my mother rode to Death Valley (who was taking care of my brother and me?) with the Norwalk Centaurs motorcycle club. I discovered that they still exist and have a Facebook page! I have contacted them and asked whether they have any photos of the 1963 or 1964 trip to Death Valley.
My father took photographs of cars everywhere he went. My guess is that any car that looked interesting to him, he would take photos. You can see some of those photos and read more about my father and cars by clicking here.
I really need to take a photo of my current car, the Toyota RAV4, for the family archive. Since I haven't done that yet, I'll include a photo of my brother and sister sitting on the Indian that was in my 2017 car post.
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| Mark and Stacy Sellers, probably in La Puente, California, 1967 |
I love Mark and Stacy on the motorcycle. So cute! If you locate photos of the Death Valley trip, be sure to post them.
ReplyDeleteOh, you know I will! I'm hoping that someone does have photos. I'm surprised I haven't found any in my father's photographs.
DeleteI love black and white photos and this one is really cool. Do you remember getting rides on it?
ReplyDeleteI don't remember getting rides on it, but my father told me I started riding on motorcycles with him when I was about 3 years old. And I remember that the three of us kids had the cute little child-sized motorcycle helmets. There is a photo of me on that Indian in the 2017 SNGF post and also at http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2012/01/wordless-wednesday_11.html. As for the photo being black and white, my father probably developed it, because he usually did develop his own b/w photos. We almost always had a developing room in our house when I was growing up.
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