Friday at the Henry Ford Museum continued...
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We went out to the parking lot to get our lunches - it was nice to get outside for a little while. When we came back in, we saw this sign in the gift shop for the museum: "Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built." I figure that the phone calls from the car warranty people started at about the same time.
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Back in the museum, we started in the area "Your Place In Time" -- identifying common items for folks from different generations in the 1900s.
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The docent offered to take our picture in this Overland car.
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The docent told us that it was marketed to women because it had an electric start.
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Carl in a 1950s classroom with instructions on a Civil Defense Drill on the board.
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The next area of the museum was "Made in America - Power" -- lots of power generating equipment of various kinds.
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I'll just say that Carl enjoyed this area quite a bit more than I did (that's him standing *way* over there in the midst of some of the machines)...
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... and he took pictures of machines without taking pictures of their explanatory signs...
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... so... your guess is probably better than mine on what these machines do! But... you may be able to tell that some of the machines were HUGE, up to the ceiling high and down to the basement too.
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I found the light bulb making machine to be interesting -- particularly that "In the 1970s, fifteen of these machines produced most of the world's bulbs." Fifteen!
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A display of 600 light bulbs that this machine could make in a minute...
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Another machine picture...
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... and yet another! (I think this is the same one as a few above but from a different angle.)
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Soon after 3pm, we finally got to a Model T!
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| The parts of the Model T |
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Just in case you ever get a Model T Lego set and want some help in putting it together!
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7,882 distinct tasks in assembling a Model T
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At this point, we had gotten back to the entrance to the museum -- when we entered, we elected to turn left, figuring that most people would turn right, and we'd "do" the museum in reverse -- we were about halfway done with seeing all of the exhibits. By mid-afternoon, we reached the "Presidential Vehicles".
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Reagan's limo
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A photo on the wall of Reagan in the limo
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Kennedy's car (also occasionally used by Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter)
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Seen roadside -- McDonald's, A&W, White Castle
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Dwight D Eisenhower's 1950 Lincoln
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A photograph of the car in use.
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FDR's 1939 Lincoln
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1955 Corvette next to iconic Holiday Inn sign...
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... and a Holiday Inn room, complete with blue shag carpeting!
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Selfie in front of the Holiday Inn sign
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Looking at "family" cars
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One of the earliest family cars - 1904 Packard -- based on the price and average wage, it would require a person to work 6 years, 1 month to afford this vehicle! Not sure how many families would have ended up purchasing it.
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1904 Packard family car
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Carl's family had a 1955 Chevrolet BelAir like this one, but theirs was bluish/green.
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In the "Driven to Win" area, folks could participate "In the Driver's Seat Simulators" for an additional fee - we watched them for a few minutes -- they seemed to spend a lot of time driving off the track with no noticeable damage to their cars! We could follow their progress on the screens above -- one showed a video of one or more of the cars racing, and the other showed the relative placement and speed of last completed lap.
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A motorhome on display...
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It was used by Charles Kuralt, but the information said indicated that neither he or his crew spent the night in the RV, it served as a rolling studio.
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1983 Honda Accord LX -- I bought a 1984 Honda Accord LX as the first *new* car I ever owned.
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According to the display, based on the purchase price of the car and average wage, a buyer would need to work 6 months to be able to afford a 1983 Honda Accord LX.
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One of the last items we saw - a travel trailer given to Charles Lindbergh by Henry Ford.
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We had thought that we might spend 3-4 hours at the museum, but we ended up spending the majority of the day, and there were still more areas that we only barely saw or did not see at all. Very interesting place to visit!
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