Like you, I do not drink beer but drank my share when I was young. Even one or two beers will give me a headache. I do, however, like VO and Vernors Ginger Ale or Seven UP.
Unrelatedly, I've been through the quad cities many times when I was younger. I live near Cincinnati where my Father grew up but my Mother grew up in Tama County Iowa. They met in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines during WWII. Mom was an Army Nurse. Dad was a civilian GM engineer on loan to the War Department helping the Navy maintain the new and high tech GM two-cycle diesel engines being bought by the tens of thousands.
When young, we would all pile in the car and drive to Toledo each summer to visit Mom's family for a week or so. It was great fun. Sixty miles per hour "a mile a minute" on two lane roads, all windows wide open, never heard of air conditioning.
I remember doing this from the early/mid 1950s until the mid 1960s. Depending upon the year and chosen route, we crossed the Mississippi either at Clinton or the quad cities. There were no interstate highways.
FWIW: My first cousin still owns the family farm just outside of Toledo that was homesteaded by my Great Grandfather after he mustered out of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War. He was with Grant at Vicksburg. The farm has been a Century Farm since 1967.
My aunt and uncle owned the farm after my Grandmother passed in 1961 and were full time farmers. They farmed the 180 acre homestead as well as some other properties acquired subsequently. My aunt did not work outside the home. Both were college graduates, rare in the 1920s.
My uncle retired around 1970. He never went "big time." His "big tractor" was a JD 60 bought new. He also had a couple of 8Ns and from time to time an Oliver or two. My dad, not a farmer, though it was in his blood and we lived on a small farm, had an AC WC. To me, the JD 60 was enormous. In 1959 or 1960, my uncle bought a new Ford 971 SOS. I remember driving this tractor in the very early 1960s. It was nirvana.
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