Advertising Cars

[brathke at juno.com]

I took some photos of the Hillside Dodge car on the 85 line, and believe
it also ran in the South Hills.  Most of the ad cars ran on 22, but in
the early 60s they started to appear on other lines, possbily at the
request of the advertiser, especially if the advertised company was on or
near those lines.  

The 1964 Chrysler car was often on the 2nd Avenue lines.   In 1963, the
Ivory Towers car ran on 8-Perrysville.  Ivory Towers was the name of a
home subdivision just across U.S. Route 19, south of Keating carbarn, and
the car's paint job read, "This car to Ivory Towers."

I have a photo of the Mohawk Airlines car on 21-Fineview, but it might
have been a fantrip.  Mohawk Airlines (originally called Richardson
Airlines) merged into Allegheny Airlines (originally called All American
Airlines), and is US Airways today.  There's a photo of this car on page
12 in Harold Smith's book, but the caption gives incorrect color
information - the car was actually painted metallic gold and gloss black
(not blue).

Bob 7/17

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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:44:54 +0000 Kenneth and Tracie Josephson
<kjosephson at sprintmail.com> writes:
> 
> I just sealed an envelope with some images for Jim Holland. One of 
> them shows
> the 1400 painted for Hillside Dodge. The car is clearly signed for 
> Route 55.
> I keep hearing these cars were restricted to Route 22. So did 
> advertising
> cars ever get assigned to other routes (besides the car advertising 
> the
> subdivision as shown in the "Touring" book?)
> 
> I will be away from my computer and e-mail from July 18th through 
> the 26th.
> Ken J.
> 

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