We are back at the Thousand Trails Preserve in Hershey, Pennsylvania and its raining. We had already been to Chocolate World and didn’t want to see that again. Someone told us there was a classic car show in the area so, after searching the internet we found the Antique Auto Museum. Excellent museum. The museum was not only filled with all kinds of cars, but also told the history of the automobile from Henry Ford’s machine shop to cars of today. Each area was a different decade with a description of what developed during the decade and then displays of cars of the decade. The bottom level of the museum housed a display of old busses and motorcycles. The top floor held cases of classic car hood ornaments.
Classic gas station display. They also have cars in an old drive-in theatre setting and also displayed outside a display of a roadside diner.
A woman invents the windshield wipers!! They had several of these "You can do it" displays. Henry Ford employed women in his factories and even payed the same wage as a man! But, he only hired women that were single or widowed! He believed married women should be at home!!
Cadillac bought by Allen Ludden for Betty White. Car was also used in a few episodes of
Mama’s Family.
It was a very enjoyable 3 hours spent out of the rain.
Jim would definitely love that place. We have just stayed put and inside out of the rain for the last couple of days but there's sunshine this afternoon so we'll head out in the morning towards Allentown.
ReplyDeleteWhen the weather is rainy, we look for things like this to visit. Sounds fun! Miss you guys!
ReplyDeleteWe spent rainy yesterday at home then sunny today driving up the coast seeing the huge houses and visiting the Seacost Science Museum. It was a long walk from the parking area to the museum so I'm glad we picked a good weather day to go to that one.
ReplyDeleteChocolate World!!!! Yum. Samples? Okay maybe we will go there.
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