FWIW, the little bit of the car that is visible in the photo does look
somewhat like the '35 Fords in Darren's Google Image Search results. I
don't see any parts that are obviously NOT a 35 Ford.
On 12/19/2013 8:48 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
Dang, Darren! I was =really= impressed for about 43 seconds.
Rick
On Dec 19, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Thanks Darren! Interesting sleuthing, but Odessa may have thrown you off the
track.
In fact we are dealing with Odessa NY, a burg of 300-500 people at the time.
(Smaller now.)
Nearest locales likely to have had dealerships (in rough order of distance)
are: Montour Falls, Watkins Glen, Elmira, Corning, and Ithaca.
My father's family were dairy farmers, and my grandfather was arguably the most
successful and affluent farmer in that portion of what was and is New York
State's poorest county. Big fish, small pond. He bought and leased quite a few
acres from others who didn't have the resources to make it through the
depression.
On my mother's side, there was a long-standing preference for GM products. On
my father's side, IIRC the tendency was for Chrysler. I hardly knew my
grandfather, he died in the early '50s, but from the stories I've heard he was
likely to go for a good deal, brand-loyalty be damned.
Crank the above into your calculations and see what that produces...
stan
On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
Well, I'll play Sherlock here.
The lines of the car (we can't discount TRUCK, but the window shape of
the open door suggests CAR to me) are definitely mid-30s. The photo
was taken in 1937, which was essentially the close of the Depression.
So a new car struck me a bit "affluent". So I did a little searching.
Assuming that "Odessa" is "Odessa, Texas" we can do a little research
on that area. It seems that Ector County was part of the Texas oil
boom, with a big strick in the area in 1926. "Odessa became the
shipping and oilfield supply center for the county's burgeoning
petroleum boom. County lands produced almost 12,330,000 barrels of oil
in 1938". In 1930 3,958 people lived in Ector County; the population
increased to 15,051 in 1940.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hce02
Now let's turn our attention to auto dealerships in Odessa in the
mid-30s. Today there exists a Sewell Ford in Odessa. Did it exist in
the mid-30s? Yep! In fact, "In 1935, (Sewell) sons Carl Sr. and Woody,
purchased the the bankrupt Love Motor Company in Odessa. Located at
2nd Street & Texas Avenue, Carl Sewell Motor sold half of their
22-vehicle inventory on opening day. New cars sold from $695 - $1,035.
A new truck could be bought for $635."
http://www.vancesnewsletter.com/sewell-ford-history.html
Could this car be a 1935 Ford Sedan, purchased on that opening day in
1935? Let's take a look: http://goo.gl/UcR6RB
Notice the horizontal bar going across the grill that, if extended,
would go across the top portion of the headlights? It can be seen in
Stan's family picture. Notice the shape of the bottom corners of the
windshield (also a match). Notice the groove running through the
middle of the front bumper? I'm guessing that we are looking at a
1935 Ford Sedan, purchased from Sewell Ford in Odessa, TX in 1935.
http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=118448
But that's just a guess.
:)
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Stan Halpin
<[email protected]> wrote:
No others at this point. My Aunt has many of the photos from that era, but I
don't have ready access.
stan
On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
My first inclination was "Ford", too. Any other pix that show the car any
better?
-p
On 12/19/2013 2:19 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
It looks like a ford. Not much to go on here though.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Stan Halpin
<[email protected]> wrote:
A cousin is working on family history stuff and recently came up with this
photo of my father (15 yrs old at the time) and his siblings in 1937.
The question is, what make/model was the family car?
http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/e1babf2a8
Thanks!
stan
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