This post is a short gallery of my ancestors and their motor vehicles. Anyone have any additional photos to contribute?
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My great-grandmother Vera Merriman and her boyfriend in a car, mid-1910s, southern Oregon |
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My great-grandfather Odin Wadleigh and his car, apparently changing a tire. Probably early 1920s, Indiana |
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My great-grandmother Vera Merriman and her car, early 1920s, southern Oregon. Engraving vehicles with the owners initials (V.V.M. for Vera Vivian Merriman) was apparently popular in that time period. |
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My grandmother Bettye Brown and my great-grandmother Louetha Jones Brown, probably 1925 or 1926 in Arkansas |
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My grandmother Bettye Brown in front of the family car, early 1930s |
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My grandmother Bettye Brown and great-grandmother Louetha Jones Brown, mid-1930s (1936 Buick) |
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My grandfather Ben Plymale with the family car (1949 Buick Super 8) in 1952, Seattle |
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Wadleighs in their 1953 Ford Crestline convertible in Long Beach, CA, in1953. Left to right: Bettye Brown Wadleigh, Randy Wadleigh, Louise Custer Wadleigh, Mark Wadleigh, Karen Wadleigh |
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My dad Randy Wadleigh in front of the family car (1959 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon), circa 1962 on the California coast |