by Roberto Rodriguez | Jan 15, 2020 | Learn
You may have heard of White trucks or White sewing machines but a White steam car? You learn something new every day. This is one of 167 Whites known to exist, one of five model M-Ms, and one of only three 1910 M-Ms with a Pullman body. It is powered by a...
by Roberto Rodriguez | Dec 30, 2019 | Learn
Evaline Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine, on her family’s farm in 1864. Growing up, she went to live in Chicago with her uncle William Wallace Kimball, the founder of the Kimball Piano Company. “With his great wealth and connections to high-society Chicago,...
by Roberto Rodriguez | Dec 9, 2019 | Learn
A “supercar” is loosely defined as a high-performance street-legal car. I’ll tell you all about America’s first Supercar – the Stanley K Semi-Racer – but first a bit of background history. In 1906, at Ormond Beach (now known as Daytona Beach, Florida),...
by Roberto Rodriguez | Nov 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Albert Augustus Pope emerged from the Civil War at the age of 22, with the brevetted rank of Colonel, commendations for bravery, and a small amount of carefully-saved military pay. Setting up shop in Boston, he began trading in shoe decorations, air pistols, and...
by Roberto Rodriguez | Oct 8, 2019 | Learn
In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt occupied the White House, the average life expectancy was 47 years, only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub, the tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower, the average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour, and most...
