Re: carforce number one
Posted by Guscha On 2016/2/24 1:43:28
In January 29, 1928, the New York Times talked about "the potential candidacy of Governor Alvan T. Fuller for the Presidency of the United States". Reason enough for me to show him in this thread next to a Packard. There was one period in time when it wouldn't have been exaggerated to call him even Mr. Packard in person.
"In 1910, he moved his Packard and Cadillac dealerships from Park Square to a new, $300,000 automotive palace at the intersection of Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, opening it - appropriately - on Washington's Birthday.
The location was dubbed "Fuller's Folly'' because it was built near swamp land and considered so far from downtown Boston that no one would shop there. Instead, Fuller sold so many cars that other dealers scrambled to open near him, earning Commonwealth Avenue the moniker "Automobile Row''.
...by the 1920s his business was recognized as the world's most successful auto dealership."
sources
quotation #1 - nytimes.com
quotation #2 - Boston.com 2012/02/19
image: eBay, item number 370753123127
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"In 1910, he moved his Packard and Cadillac dealerships from Park Square to a new, $300,000 automotive palace at the intersection of Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, opening it - appropriately - on Washington's Birthday.
The location was dubbed "Fuller's Folly'' because it was built near swamp land and considered so far from downtown Boston that no one would shop there. Instead, Fuller sold so many cars that other dealers scrambled to open near him, earning Commonwealth Avenue the moniker "Automobile Row''.
...by the 1920s his business was recognized as the world's most successful auto dealership."
sources
quotation #1 - nytimes.com
quotation #2 - Boston.com 2012/02/19
image: eBay, item number 370753123127
Attach file:
(51.27 KB)
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