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Flat Wheel Cafe/Diner/CS: 1st Quarter for 2011

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<p>[quote user="Modelcar"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>switch7frg:</strong></div> <div></div> <p><img src="/TRCCS/emoticons/icon_smile_swg.gif" alt="Smile, Wink & Grin" />   I think all these ( gems ) were brought to town by a train  too. </p> <p>                                                              Cannonball</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>Yes, for some decades now, but doubtful if the ones back in '41 were.</p> <p>A mental picture still sticks in my mind {from a young age}, of seeing a {new}, 1938 Oldsmobile pulling another {new}, one....on the street in our little home town {main street was rt. 30}, parked outside a restaurant...They obvously were on their way thru to some dealership.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>I remember how the showrooms downtown (I grew up in Elizabeth, NJ) used to paper over the showroom windows in late September/early October in anticipation of the new model year....That was big doings!</p> <p>Remember how folks used to have loyalty to one brand of car...and to the same dealer?  And they usually traded with the same salesman!</p> <p>Much more cilvilized way to buy a car...not like it is now.</p>
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