The Family Car: Ohioan's picnicking on a Florida beach
I love this picture more than you will ever know. And evidently, others do too - its been shared, published, colorized cropped - this one has been cropped so we can focus on the car better. My great grandmother, Hattie and her sister Ethel, used to make the drive from Ohio, to Florida every year. I have dozens of images of them having a picnic on the beach, all dressed up by today's standards. This picture is not them, although Hattie did own this same make model and year car. First of all, we know somethings about the picture. So lets review them. 1) We know that this is either a dark blue or a black four door sedan. 2) We can see the dual tailights. 3) We can see the license plate, Ohio, but the year - because of JPG compression, is blocky. It looks like 1942, but we'll come back to that. 4) We can just see, just to the left of the man's head, the hood detail and the position of the headlight. 5) We can also see that the paint on the car is in good c...