Ah, yes... I know that area well. I used to travel once a week up to
our office in Concordia back in the day. Always liked the drive from
Stockton east through Osborne, Downs, Cawker City (and the big ball),
Glen Elder and Beloit and on to Glasco and US81 to Concordia. The
wife is a retired archaeologist and worked several summers around lake
Waconda. Some neat history now under that lake! Native American lore
and, of course, the TB sanitarium at Waconda Springs. All under water
today...
I grew up back east (Owego, NY) and recall the "furren" cars of my
youth... The owner of the local soda shop had a Renault Dauphine.
Dad had a Triumph Herald for a few years when I was in high school (I
crunched in the bonnet twice for him). One of my best friends had a
pair of Hillman Minxes (Minxii?) that he was constantly moving parts
back and forth to keep one of them on the road and there was a red
bugeye in my neighborhood. I don't remember ever seeing an MG until
1965 when I was in England in the USAF. That's when I bought my 1946
MG TC and became fatally stricken with the Octagon Flu.. ;-)
Cheers!!
Jim - 68 Midget in Dodge City
On 4/30/06, Peter Shull <pdx.pete@verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm originally from Glasco, one of those small farming communities that
> never had a population much bigger than 800. I've not been back for a number
> of years but would wager that it is now home to maybe a 150 people. Glasco
> is located just off US81 about 45 miles north of Salina and maybe about 45
> miles south of the Nebraska state line. As a point of reference, Glasco is
> 40 mile dues east of Cawker City, Kansas, home to one of the world's largest
> balls of twine.
>
> As remote as that location may seem, I saw my first Brit cars there. In the
> very early 60's we had a "visiting scholar" (a teacher that couldn't find a
> job anywhere else and spent but one academic year in town) who drove a
> Morris Minor. A couple of years later one of the older kids (Max Liby, if
> memory serves) came to school with a really nice MG TD. About the same time,
> Dickie Wolf started hitting the two-block-long main drag in a Bug Eye. The
> other "exotic" cars in town during that era included a Renault Dauphine, a
> NSU Prinz, and a Simca Aronde. And, for a while, my dad had a Crosley.
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