Now here is a real gem! (I hope Rudy can get some pics to post also!)
1929 Ford Model A School Bus A beauty!
Item number: 390128734727
Vehicle Description
RARE 1929 Ford Model A Bus in nicely restored condition. Garaged in St Petersburg, Florida. Runs and drives well, and is an immaculate restoration. 4 cylinder, manual shift. Due to the age, I am unable to accurately describe the mileage on the vehicle. This was bought several years ago from a prominent Salt Lake City collector. Feel free to come and inspect the Bus in St Petersburg. Buyer is responsible for all transport arrangements
Price: US $59,999.00 Buy It NowBuy It NowBuy It Now
Sweet old Model A Ford School bus on EbayMotors
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Thanks for getting and posting some pics Mark! You even beat Rudy to it, you are fast!!
Today in the Boise area it is cold, supposedly down to -3 in downtown Boise. It's was about 10 degrees this AM at our Idaho property 45 miles west of Boise. I was thinking what it must have been like in the old days riding such a school bus to school. Of course it beat walking, but I don't think they had much in the way of heaters. And driving the old girl on slick roads and in deep snow must have been a workout for the driver.
Today in the Boise area it is cold, supposedly down to -3 in downtown Boise. It's was about 10 degrees this AM at our Idaho property 45 miles west of Boise. I was thinking what it must have been like in the old days riding such a school bus to school. Of course it beat walking, but I don't think they had much in the way of heaters. And driving the old girl on slick roads and in deep snow must have been a workout for the driver.
Grinder's Switch
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Grinder's Switch is a real location just outside of Centerville, Tennessee, which consists of little more than the railroad switch for which it is named. It was also the fictional hometown of Minnie Pearl, the comic character portrayed on the Grand Ole Opry by comedian Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who grew up in the nearby Colleyville neighborhood of Centerville.
Her father was a lumberman who shipped logs from the Grinders depot on the Centerville branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad. There was a team track at the depot, necessitating the installation of a switch. Long after the depot disappeared, the team track and its switch remained, thus the name "Grinders Switch." Grinders was still listed in the railroad tariff book called "Official List of Open & Prepay Stations No. 82" dated November 15, 1967.
Sarah Colley sometimes accompanied her father to the Grinders depot, where the local characters would hang out. This was part of her inspiration for her "Cousin Minnie Pearl" routine.
So much unwarranted traffic to Grinder's Switch looking for the hometown Pearl described was generated by tourists following the road sign that the Hickman County Highway Department was finally motivated to change the designation on the sign to "Hickman Springs Road."
A "Grinder's Switch" theme park for the area has been proposed, with promoters going so far as to move the former railroad depot of Slayden, Tennessee to the area to serve as one of its buildings, but little more seems to have been done in regard to developing the park to this point.
The park failed and all investors lost their money. The railroad depot remains though. Hickman County bought the land and now operates the Hickman County Agricultuure Pavilion there. The Hickman County Fair is located at the Ag Pavilion.
Grinder's Switch was named for the Griner family that lived nearby. Robert Evans Griner and his wife Priscilla Knight lived nearby. Griner is the proper spelling. Priscilla is the last person to have seen Meriwether Lewis alive. Robert and Priscilla moved to this part of Hickman County after his controversial death.
The annual Grinder's Switch Music & Arts Festival is held on the square in Centerville in September. There are crafts booths, a booth for the local theatre, and music lasting throughout the day and into the night.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
For the band, see Grinderswitch.
This article does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2009)
Grinder's Switch is a real location just outside of Centerville, Tennessee, which consists of little more than the railroad switch for which it is named. It was also the fictional hometown of Minnie Pearl, the comic character portrayed on the Grand Ole Opry by comedian Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who grew up in the nearby Colleyville neighborhood of Centerville.
Her father was a lumberman who shipped logs from the Grinders depot on the Centerville branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad. There was a team track at the depot, necessitating the installation of a switch. Long after the depot disappeared, the team track and its switch remained, thus the name "Grinders Switch." Grinders was still listed in the railroad tariff book called "Official List of Open & Prepay Stations No. 82" dated November 15, 1967.
Sarah Colley sometimes accompanied her father to the Grinders depot, where the local characters would hang out. This was part of her inspiration for her "Cousin Minnie Pearl" routine.
So much unwarranted traffic to Grinder's Switch looking for the hometown Pearl described was generated by tourists following the road sign that the Hickman County Highway Department was finally motivated to change the designation on the sign to "Hickman Springs Road."
A "Grinder's Switch" theme park for the area has been proposed, with promoters going so far as to move the former railroad depot of Slayden, Tennessee to the area to serve as one of its buildings, but little more seems to have been done in regard to developing the park to this point.
The park failed and all investors lost their money. The railroad depot remains though. Hickman County bought the land and now operates the Hickman County Agricultuure Pavilion there. The Hickman County Fair is located at the Ag Pavilion.
Grinder's Switch was named for the Griner family that lived nearby. Robert Evans Griner and his wife Priscilla Knight lived nearby. Griner is the proper spelling. Priscilla is the last person to have seen Meriwether Lewis alive. Robert and Priscilla moved to this part of Hickman County after his controversial death.
The annual Grinder's Switch Music & Arts Festival is held on the square in Centerville in September. There are crafts booths, a booth for the local theatre, and music lasting throughout the day and into the night.
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