Re: Littlest antique tractor show? (photos)

Posted by Wardner on August 25, 2006 at 11:06:17 from (4.154.244.17):

In Reply to: Littlest antique tractor show? (photos) posted by Bob M on August 25, 2006 at 06:35:16:

All those kids on shiny red tractors reminds me of the childhood trips we used to make to the Museum of Science and Industry on the south side of Chicago. The McCormicks were board memebers and major contributers to that outstanding institution. Consequently, there was always half a dozen new IH tractors displayed in the main lobby. I used to sample them all.

This happened in the early fifties. Seeing as I was a city boy living on the North Side and rarely saw any agricultural activity, I have to assume those promotions are the root cause for my owning red tractors.

We lived in a high rise facing the Oak Street Beach (near the venerable Drake Hotel). A high ranking city offical also lived there. Several times a week, a motorcycle cop mounted on a Harley-Davidson, would be stationed ahead of a limo directly in front of the entrance canopy. While I don't have a collection of Cadillacs, I do have a few antique Harleys.

I wonder how many of those kids in your album will be buying antique tractors 30 years from now. We will need to sell to someone and I am glad you made the effort to show your red machines.

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