If things start to slow down tomorrow after the hot dogs and fireworks, here is a little brain excercise for the family, like we did fifty years ago.

On one slow, sultry fourth of July, some of us kids sat around the table fifty years ago, and spoke of all the nice cars we had way back then. Nothing looked more cherry than an Impala; a Thunderbird, but the only way to climb up J hill was in a Willy's Jeep.  Back then, we had Ford, Chrysler, Chevrolet, GMC and a Rambler, and thought they were the only ones that ever made vehicles.  However, I recently found a handwritten list of the makers of vehicles that my father remembered, and we wrote them down back then, but they may not have the correct spelling.
Auburn                                                                            Marmon
Austin                                                                              Marquette
Blackhawk                                                                       Mathis
Buick                                                                               McFarlom
Chalmers                                                                          Moon
Cadillac                                                                            Nash
Chandler                                                                          Oakland
Chevrolet                                                                        Oldsmobile
Chrysler                                                                           Overland
Cord                                                                                Packard
Cunnignham                                                                    Paige
Davis                                                                                Peerless
Desoto                                                                              Pierce Arrow
Diana                                                                                Plymouth
Dodge                                                                               Pontiac
Dodge Bros.                                                                     Reo
Dusenberg                                                                        Rickenbacker
DuPont                                                                              Roamer
Elcar                                                                                  Rolls Royce
Erskine                                                                             Roosevelt
Essex                                                                                Ruston
Essex Super                                                                      Star
Falcon Knight                                                                   Stearns Knight
Flint                                                                                  Studebaker
Ford                                                                                   Stutz
Franklin                                                                            Velie
Gardner                                                                             Viking
Graham                                                                             Willys
Graham Paige                                                                    Willys Knight
Hudson                                                                              Windsor
Hupmobile                                                                         White Prince
Jewett                                                                                Wolverine
Kissel                                                                                 Stanley Steamer
LaSalle                                                                               Whippett
Lincoln
Locomobile