Re: Vintage Packards on the Street Thread...
Posted by 58L8134 On 2021/12/27 14:45:38
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Although this is obviously a staged promotion image for the 1918-1919 Packard Twin-Six Landaulet, it illustrates a genteel social custom of the era, namely "taking the air". Since the horse-drawn carriage days, the upper social classes would dress in their finery, be chauffeured in their elegant carriages through the parks and parkways enjoying the pleasant weather. Of course, it was on view both for their own class and to the envy of those who weren't. When one could afford a $6,000 motorcar then, one wanted others to recognize that.
Steve
Added 1-1-2022
Here is a look at a 1906 Packard Model S in daily use in Newago, Michigan.
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Packard Twin-Six landaulet & ladies 'taking the air'.jpg (81.48 KB)
06 Packard Model S with chauffeur - Newaygo, MI.jpg (150.27 KB)
Although this is obviously a staged promotion image for the 1918-1919 Packard Twin-Six Landaulet, it illustrates a genteel social custom of the era, namely "taking the air". Since the horse-drawn carriage days, the upper social classes would dress in their finery, be chauffeured in their elegant carriages through the parks and parkways enjoying the pleasant weather. Of course, it was on view both for their own class and to the envy of those who weren't. When one could afford a $6,000 motorcar then, one wanted others to recognize that.
Steve
Added 1-1-2022
Here is a look at a 1906 Packard Model S in daily use in Newago, Michigan.
Attach file:
Packard Twin-Six landaulet & ladies 'taking the air'.jpg (81.48 KB) 06 Packard Model S with chauffeur - Newaygo, MI.jpg (150.27 KB)
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