Vintage Dodge TV Commercials
I like to browse YouTube for old school car commercials occasionally to reminisce, or at least in a few cases, watch clips from a time before some of us were even born. So take a trip down memory lane and enjoy watching these cool, vintage Dodge TV commercials.
Reed Brothers Can Now Be Found On “Peerless Rockville”
Peerless Rockville has placed a link to “Reed Brothers Dodge History 1915-2012” blog under the Resources section of their website. Our thanks and gratitude to Peerless Rockville for sharing the link to our blog so our local historical information can be preserved and shared with future generations.
Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, Ltd. is an award-winning nonprofit, community-based organization founded in 1974 to preserve buildings, objects, and information important to Rockville’s heritage. Please take some time to explore their official website here.
A Tale of Two Employees
Francis O. Day, Salesman (I Lost) paying off a local election bet to Guy Murray, Shop Foreman (I Won) in downtown Rockville circa 1940
One of the things I enjoy doing is looking through all of the old photographs in my grandfather’s albums and trying to figure out who and what they are. Some of the photos are more than 100 years old! Anyway, I can easily identify most of the Reed family, but who in the world are some of these other people? It’s like some reverse version of “Where’s Waldo”.
This time it was my mom (Lewis Reed’s daughter) who wanted to show me this old photo and tell me the story behind it. So here it is…
The story of two Reed Brothers employees (Francis O. Day, Salesman and Guy Murray, Shop Foreman) who made a bet on who would win a local election. It’s pretty obvious that Guy Murray won the bet, because he is being pulled by Francis Day through downtown Rockville in a horse cart. I thought only horses could pull those things, but I see grown men can, too!
Gaithersburg: Then & Now
The website “Gaithersburg: Then & Now” authored by local historian Shaun Curtis has placed a link to “Reed Brothers Dodge History 1915-2012” blog under the Local Historic Sites & Information section of their website. Reed Brothers would like to acknowledge and thank “Gaithersburg: Then & Now” for sharing the link to our blog on their website.
The book, “Gaithersburg” by Shaun Curtis, is part of Arcadia’s popular Then & Now series which offers a special view of American life, placing historical images side by side with contemporary photographs to chronicle the area’s past.
Highlights of Gaithersburg:
• What started as a small website (www.shauncurtis.com) has resulted in the publication of this book
• Includes many old popular Gaithersburg landmarks – the Shady Grove Music Fair, the Gaither Theater and the Washingtonian Motel
• Illustrates how Gaithersburg has developed from an agricultural powerhouse into a science and technology powerhouse
The book is available at area bookstores or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com.
Reed Brothers Can Now Be Found On Montgomery County Historical Society’s Website
The Montgomery County Historical Society (Maryland) has just added a new page to the History & Resources section of their website, entitled “Other Local History on the Web“. Reed Brothers would like to acknowledge with much appreciation, the Montgomery County Historical Society for placing a link to our history blog on their new page, so we may now be able to preserve and share our heritage with future generations.
You can find us here: Other Local History on the Web
Also, please take some time to explore the official blog of the Montgomery County Historical Society. Their artifacts blog, “A Fine Collection” contains an incredibly wide variety of objects representing 300-some years of Montgomery County.
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Reed Brothers Dodge History (1915-2012) by Jeanne Gartner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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