The 1952 Ford

The 1952 Ford Mainline was the first car your dad owned.  We were very happy with this model.  It was perfectly designed with a comfortable front seat for driver and passenger and the back seat - like the front seat - roomy enough for several children and even, later on, a little car bed.  Everything about it was designed with the family in mind. The dashboard window was called a wrap-around window, allowing the driver and front seat passenger to feel close to the road and all passing scenery.

  

We were living in Yonkers in the upstairs apartment of the owners, Mamie and Al Flage, and a window in our living room that faced 31 Old Jerome Avenue was just great for taking pictures of your dad "dusting the car" on that first day of ownership.

From Yonkers, the '52 Ford followed us to Connecticut and then to our first house in southeast Minneapolis, to Louisiana Avenue in Crystal, to York Avenue in Robbinsdale, and then to the house on Winsdale Avenue. The long brick driveway belonging to the house was the scene of the most tearful time as we watched our Ford Mainline being towed away when it was no longer driveable.  There was never a car so dear to me with its the memories of a time when we were young.

Pearl