My grandparents travelled from Missouri to Los Angeles in either a model A or T Ford around 1920. My Grandmother kept travel diaries in the form of small notebooks documenting the journey. We read them one day and she wrote they covered 200 miles per day.
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
This got me thinking about Edwin Goodell--apparently he was a couple of months shy of 23 (not 26 years old, as the article states)-- a sad Depression-era note in what seems to have started out well with his family driving across the country in a Model T in 1924 to start a new life in LA...
With his parents, Sarah ("Sadie") and Louis:
Both from ancestry |