ARMY DOWNS NAVY, 14-7. Plus Duke-Pitt, Florida-Auburn (11/27/38)

Microfiche-New York Times archives | 11/27/38 | Allison Danzig

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

There is so much material today I decided to break it into three different threads – News of the World, News of the Week in Review Sunday Supplement, and Sports. These must be the final college games of the regular season. Take a break from preparing to celebrate, celebrating, and cleaning up after celebrating to browse the Sunday paper.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thanks for lifting these stories out of the distant past. In the 30s, the pre-Hawkeye Iowa football team was known as the Ironmen...

[relictele]

Oh look - a Ford ad.

Remember them?

[Fiji Hill]

In other footbasll news, USC won the Pacific Coast Conference championship by rolling over UCLA 42-7, their second straight win over the Bruins, who have never beaten the men of Troy. However, one tough opponent remains--next Saturday at the Coliseum, Notre Dame will be entertaining us for our Homecoming game.

Fight on! Beat the Domers!

[re_tail20]

Didn’t you mean the Packard ad below it?

[Fiji Hill]

Remember Fords? Sure do—I’m driving one. But those ads got me thinking about moving up to a Packard.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“Ask the man who owns one.”

[dfwgator]

Woo Hoo, we beat Auburn!

[Fiji Hill]

Ask the man who owns one

Actually, I do know a man who owns one--but he prefers his '24 Franklin.

My sister-in-law once drove a '34 Packard from Los Angeles to New York City.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad owned a '49 Packard when we lived in Japan in the 1950s (I was an Army brat.)
This was an indestructible car with big wheels and tires that could take Japan's unpaved roads and go just about anywhere.
My mother had driven my dad to the airport for a trip to S. Korea and had left the Packard parked in front of our off-base house instead of putting it in the garage. The following day was May first and ten thousand snake dancing Japanese communist sympathizers were in the street and a few of them spotted the Packard.
They got on both sides of the car and managed to tip it over and set it on fire. While they were at it, they painted a hammer and sickle on our front door.
When my dad got back, he walked right past the big scorch mark on the pavement and disregarding the previous day's life threatening activities, asked, "What the hell happened to the Packard ?"

[Homer_J_Simpson]

That is an amazing story.

This was an indestructible car . . .

Barring snake-dancing Japanese communists.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It WAS indestructible until the Zengakuran Students Federation got their hands on it.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

You will be happy about the outcome of this contest.

[Pelagius of Asturias]

Those used car ads reminded me that heaters were an option. I do not know when they became standard equipment, but most heaters were installed either by the dealer or an independent shop. The old family ‘49 Ford sedan had an after market heater. When my brother bought a 1956 Ford, it came from the factory with a heater.

That ‘49 did not have turn signals, but the instrument cluster had the cutouts for the little arrows. The list of things that used to be optional is interesting. Turn signals, backup lights, heaters, radios, outside rear view mirror are some that I remember. My wife’s 1965 Comet did not have backup lights.