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File name: 08_06_017922
Title: Wrecked auto towed
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1935
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Traffic accidents
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
Another not so great example of Flickr's totally unwanted (and incorrect) retrospective tagging of my images....and probably yours too.
The grey (gray - more of which later) ones are mine and the white ones have been added by Flickr.
This photo is not
a. anything to do with racing
b. it is NOT a car
c. yes its a vehicle so has a rim and a tire - but who cares
d. in merrie olde England we spell it "tyre" and would NEVER use the phrase "auto racing"
e. this photo has nothing whatsoever to do with sport
Lots of the feedback in the forum relates to the difference between the American and the British spellings eg they use Railroad and we say Railway. They use Gray and we use Grey.
One of my photos of a Honda Gold Wing has now been tagged "motor scooter" LOL
..and one of Manchester United's Stadium, Old Trafford, has been tagged as a "ballpark".
Flickr have totally lost the plot.
If you don't like the new system (and lets face it, who would?) please feel free to bleat about it here:-
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157652019487118/
Lack of bleating will no doubt lead to similar **** being foisted upon us in the future.
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Scoot-Mobile will go 75 miles on a gallon of gas and 40 miles per hour, according to its designer and inventor, Norman Anderson (at left of group), of Corunna, Michigan. He hopes to market the vehicle - made mostly from airplane parts - for $350. It has automatic shift, knee action and brakes on all three wheels.
Source: Minutia