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Old 01-10-2012, 09:02 AM   #31 (permalink)
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My first memory of a car was having the door closed on my poor fingers, and the resulting scream, which apparently was one of those primitive,

YOU JUST CLOSED THE DOOR ON YOUR KIDS FINGERS!!!!!!!!!!

Audible alarm .

I think it was a 1950 Dodge, later a 58 Plymouth Custom Suburban that we rode across the country and saw Alcatraz when it was still opened and went to Disneyland when it had just been opened a short time. Route 66 with the Burma Shave signs.

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Old 01-10-2012, 10:48 AM   #32 (permalink)
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My first memory of a car was having the door closed on my poor fingers, and the resulting scream, which apparently was one of those primitive,

YOU JUST CLOSED THE DOOR ON YOUR KIDS FINGERS!!!!!!!!!!

Audible alarm .

I think it was a 1950 Dodge, later a 58 Plymouth Custom Suburban that we rode across the country and saw Alcatraz when it was still opened and went to Disneyland when it had just been opened a short time. Route 66 with the Burma Shave signs.

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Hahaha! Got my fingers crunched in my Dad's 1972 Vista Cruiser once when I was 5. Your first car/Disneyland memory is maybe a little like this very well-made 1950s home-made documentary about winning a contest for a trip to Disneyland. Enjoy! Movie link: DISNEYLAND DREAM.
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Old 01-10-2012, 09:19 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I don't have a picture of it, but it was a old blue Ford Mercury...the good oh days
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Old 01-17-2012, 09:13 AM   #34 (permalink)
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It wasn't a car at all. I remember standing next to my dad, barely able to look out the lower window of one of these. (see attachment below) We were cruising down a gravel road he had built up in the mountains.
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Old 01-18-2012, 12:10 AM   #35 (permalink)
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When I was 4-5 years old, my Mom had an executive job w the Girl Scouts in the Spokane, WA. area.

I clearly remember riding w her in her company 2 tone black/yellow Chevy 210 4dr. wagon!


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