Saturday, June 29, 2013

Ford museum story

Hello again, Finally got Internet service.Don has gone over tithe dark side. No not the Raiders. I'm talking aboutFord.  We went into Detroit to the Ford Museum. Just seeing this was worth the whole trip. I actually took hundreds of pictures.
I thought it would be about cars, but it. Was what I thought The Smithsonian would be. This brilliant man has collected the story of our country under one roof. One enormous roof. The. Roof Ford designed  is actually ship hulls upside down for strength. When I saw the columns holding up the roofs, I told Don they were not just for decoration. They looked like they were made from radiators. So since I am so nosy, I mean curious. I asked. They were actually the radiators that were used to heat the place, but are now obsolete. This place is so huge, you never get the feeling of being crowded. There are many exhibits and things for children to enjoy, scattered all through the museum so they would not be bored. Everything was spaced apart and the signs were great. We planned on a few hours and spent all day. Have any of you ever looked at a hotdog in a bun and wondered what it felt like? Well I have, and now I know. It is very cozy except fortune mustard. The am ninety took a few hours to look at. I finally found out what generation I am and why my Mother used to tell me they had no nylons during the war and would draw lines down the back of their legs with eyebrow. Pencils. We saw the Rosa Parks bus and the guard made me a little uncomfortable. He really liked Jr and took him and put him under the windshield wiper and. Then in the actual seat she sat on. He had just finished telling Don the restoration cost $300,00.00. It just seemed wrong to put junior on it. We saw a lot of Presidential cars. I felt emotional at the Kennedy car but actually more so at the bus. After thinking about it, I decided it was because while the assassination was horrible, the possibility was always there for the President. It is one of the reasons why I can't understand why anyone would want that job. But Rosa Parks was an ordinary woman that did an extraordinary thing that helped change the world for many people. It proves what a simple act of bravery can do.
We saw many different cars, including chevy's. In fact Don pointed out that the cover of the museum pamphlet has a 56 Chevy on it, thus proving that Ford really was intelligent. Many , many different sizes and types of trains and locomotives. The guys working the model railway section took Jr to pose with. He sure makes friends easily. There was an old diner inside the museum where we had lunch. Then a movie, Then we went to a Holiday Inn. Loved the shag carpet. There was a children's area where jr worked on a car. His second car of the day. TheFirst was a  Model T hat is taken apart every night and reassembled during the day. Again, Jr was taken from us and posed while the mechanics were at lunch. We saw Washington's folding camp cot. It folded into that little case. Amazing. We then saw Lincoln's chair.  We also saw a Sainte Gaudens statue of Lincoln.
Saw more machinery, some of which looked like pieces of sculpture. Ended the day having our picture taken in the finished model T. Then out to the usual afternoon rain and on to camp. More later, hugs from me

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