More From The Henry Ford...

Let us continue our little tour, shall we???

I love exploring 20th Century American History!!!

Who hasn't stayed at a Holiday Inn???

Completely authentic...

And just a couple of decades before, this was how weary travelers found lodging accommodations...

How about traveling in this adorable little VW Camper Van???

Here is a 1949 Airstream travel trailer

Need gas, and perhaps some service???

How about taking the train???

 I'm starting to get hungry...

A beautiful 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air

A Studebaker parked out front of Lamy's Diner. We'll be back here soon...

The Ultimate in Fins...the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado

Should we travel by plane???

 All these wonderful inventions needs electricity, so let's look at a generator...

Education is important...

After school, it's always been fun to watch some TV

Before cell phones, we had to use phones with CORDS!!!

Let's turn on our Cable boxes and program out top-loading VCR's to record our favorite shows!

For all you Mac lovers...

Because kids have to be constantly entertained...

The typical teenager's room circa 1987

 Look...Trapper Keeper!!! :D

The Elements of Cool, 1999

Okay, let's go back a few years, and have a look at Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House

The Photo Booth has been around for a long time

I Love Lucy

Beautiful  Early American Furniture

Mid-Century Sewing machine, radios and television

Is it a giant eye??? No! It's a Big Screen TV!!!

Modernist Furniture

A typical kitchen from the 1930's. Now I'm getting really hungry. Let's go back to Lamy's Diner...

Inside Lamy's Diner, where early 1950's restaurant fare is on the menu...

My delicious lunch, a Club Sandwich, Cole Slaw and a Faygo Red Pop!

What a great day :)

Exploring The World Around Us...

Today we are going to venture out and over to The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.

Let's start with some Presidential Limos...

This is the car that John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was shot in Dallas...

An early tanker truck

Does anyone here know what a DeSoto is???

 One of the original Ford Mustangs with the first 1986 Ford Taurus LX

An early VW Beetle

A 1949 Ford

This is a 1901 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout, the first Oldsmobile

This is a Cadillac LaSalle, which was marketed as a lower-priced "companion make" along side regular Cadillacs

A 1960 Chevrolet Corvair sitting nest to a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air

An Early Mercury Cougar and a Toyota Corona...nowadays you would know it as the Camry.

A 1974 Chrysler Newport. Large cars would not get this big again...

A darling and all original 1978 Dodge Omni. This was Chrysler's first front wheel drive car. 

It was based heavily on the European market Simca Horizon but was built in America. It came out before the K-Cars...

The 1991 Ford Explorer, the SUV that took America by storm in the 1990's

The original Toyota Prius, the poster car for Hybrid technology in cars today

This is a Lincoln Continental Mark II

The very first American made Honda Accord from 1983

A very little Crosley roadster

It's a Duesey!!!

This is a Cord. It was one of the first front wheel drive cars ever made...

A 1981 Ford Escort GLX

This is a Nash Rambler from the early 1950's. It was one of the first compact cars introduced...

This is a Duesenberg. It was on par with the finest luxury cars in the world way back when...

Nothing says Luxury like riding in a car called the Rambler Knickerbocker from 1912...

Accord, Rambler and Escort

For those of you that think the Lincoln Zephyr came out in 2006, you were wrong. THIS was the first Lincoln Zephyr...

In a nod to Ypsilanti history, this is a 1948 Tucker, designed by Ypsilanti native Preston Tucker.

1963 Buick Riviera

The Original 1958 Edsel!

Is it wearing a horse collar, or sucking a lemon???

An odd, but still beautiful car...

An original Ford Thunderbird