Alex Burr - hester_nec

Franklins (1902-1934) were not only air-cooled, but one of the most successful of the air-cooled makes. Also, in a 1917 economy run 179 Franklins averaged 40.3 mpg. Highly impressive for the day. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Yeah, the first one looks like a Dusenberg; the Essex is an Essex 4 1919-1923 era, possibly a 1922 Coach; the green shovel nose job at the end is probably around a 1914 Franklin. The Stanley is obvious - in their day those cars were very fast - one of the Stanley brothers ran one at Ormand Beach at somewhere around 100, 105 back in the late teens or 20's. Not sure what the RHD under the Essex is. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

On the subject of pot holes - in Maine they fill them with old VW's. Occasionally an old Lincoln or Caddy. Hudsonly Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Great video - with two advantages; (1) Get to take a short road trip and (2) don't even have to leave my house. Well, if you can't get there a video is the next best thing!!!! Gonna go over there and check out some of your other video's. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

True Denny - but making note of where I took the photo, ie, (photo) #2 - Blues Museum, Greenwood is pretty much telling me where I took the photo number 2 in my digital camera - right?? I'm doing with a simple pencil and paper what a complicated gadget is doing electornically. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

That's very good Ray - it does convey the feeling of the open road, left so far behind and only found today if one searchs for it. Thanks for sharing. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

You post 'em - maybe I can identify 'em. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

This is all great input - but will it help people like me who don't know where they are most of the time to start with??? I think, for now, I'll just stick with the old method - pencil, piece of paper (yeah, Denny, I know - I left the damn list in the room at Hopson Plantation when we left) writting down a short note using the picture number on my digital camera. I'm NOT of the digital age. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Try running ATP GPS picture tracker on a google search - I came up with several hits that may help/ Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Somehow "1.9 CAMBRIDGE * Turn right on Prospect St. with trolley." (1918 New England North - Goodrich Tour Book) does have a more advernturous feel to it, doesn't it. As you follow the instructions, mile by mile, in some of these old guide books it makes you wonder what happens if that big red barn you're supposed to turn right at has been repainted!!! Or the trolley tracks have been re-routed since the guide was published. Truly did add an element of suspense to the whole project. Safe traveling all. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Springfield, MA - Basketball Hall of Fame, just for one thing. There is so much to see in do in ALL of New England, and in Massachusetts - all the way from Boston in the east to the Berkshires in west. Check out this URL - http://www.massvacation.com/history-and-heritage/ - and google Massachusetts for more. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

I got to spend Christmas with my daughter - and a road trip on the Blues Road with Denny G. Ah, life is grand. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Change the name to keep the tourists happy?? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Two things come to mind: (1) Change something and the original is soon forgotten (ie, change Lincoln Highway to Heritage Highway, or whatever, and soon the Lincoln name is forgotten. And Abe's contributions to the world will be relegated to obscurity. (2) The other is an old adage in the old car (or anything else for that matter) hobby - if it ain't broke, fix it until it is. My nickles (inflation) worth. Hudsonly, Alex Burr

What started out as a pretty good idea, at least to me, turned out to be an OUTSTANDING idea. As most know by now I had the great pleasure to share the last half of Denny G's latest road trip. Nothing like "hands-on-training" I say!!!!!!!!! A few emails back and forth to set things up and it was a done deal. I started with a bus trip to Jackson, to meet up with Denny. (NOTE HERE: Security regulations are ridiculous - they confiscated the only "deadly" weapon I had, my nail clipper, but didn't really check my overnight bag, which was packed - and didn't check my rolled up sleeping bag at all - I could have had an arsenal rolled up in the thing!!!!!!!!) From Jackson to Tutwiller, from Bentonia to Clarksdale - we visited a B-B-Q place that used a giant tepee for the seating part, we took a wonderful walk thru a petrified forest, we followed a long segment of old U S 49 from Tutwiller to Clarksdale, we shacked up at the Riverside (actually we stayed one night in the ShackUp Inn and one night at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale) and we slept that one night, in the Riverside, with the comforting ghost of Bessie Smith and the history of Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, Ike Turner and other great blues artists. We had the interesting experience, when checking out of ShackUp Inn, of meeting a father from Birmingham, whose 12 year old son is in a wheelchair, then running into them at breakfast in downtown Clarksdale, again in Helena and they also stayed at the Riverside. Yes, they were also at Ground Zero for the blues show - that was the purpose of their trip. The young lad had gotten interested in Eric Clapton and wanted to experience some blues. Thanks to Denny's generosity I got to experience the "road" - as we told people, we're just traveling the road - and most knew exactly what we were talking about. We saw a lot of interesting sights and in general had a great time. Denny's heading north for home today and a part of me would like to be still traveling with him. But, all good things must, and do, come to an end. I want to publically tell everybody what a great person Denny is - a great big THANKS, Denny. I hope we can do another trip together again sometime. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Flanders, founded in 1911, was named after Walter Flanders of E-M-F auto company. By 1911 Flanders was the sole partner remaining with E-M-F. (Everitt-Metzger-Flanders) The Flanders Manufacturing Company was backed by $2.5 million, most of which came from Clement Studebaker, Jr. The elecctric car, introduced in 1912, was the brainchild of LeRoy Pelletier, advertizing manager for E-M-F. It featured worm drive, cradle spring suspension and a coupe body. The intitial price was $1775. Altho orders for 3000 cars was taken, production less than 100 before the company found itself badly overextended and in recievership. In October 1913 Pelletier bought the Flanders business and re-named it Tiffany (imagine ridding around in a car today named Tiffany!!). Pelletier moved the business to Flint, but did no better so moved back to Chelsea (MI) and renamed it Flanders Electric Comany. The Flanders Six was the next venture by Walter Flanders. It was basically an Everitt which had been produced by the Metzger Motor Company. This was the company that was eventually taken over by Studebaker, not the Flanders Electric. The connection to Maxwell came from a meeting between Flanders and Benjamin Briscoe about a month after the Jan 1913 New York Auto show. Briscoe asked Flanders to help out with Briscoes company, the United States Motor Company. Flanders said in exchange Briscoe would have to buy the Flanders company. After that Flanders scrapped every weak sister in Briscoes company, including his own and found himself with the Maxwell. The Maxwell was a result of Briscoe's thinking that Dunbar's Buick, which Dunbar was building with Briscoes money, would go nowhere. So Briscoe split and wound up connected to Jonathan Maxwell, an engineer with experience at Olds and Northern. The story is long and convulted - but the end of Maxwell, like so many, came with the depression of 1920. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

The "Santa Maria" was a small carrack, or "Nao" about 70 feet long, and was used as the flagship for the expedition. She carried a crew of 40 men. Most of todays big ocean going fishing trawlers today are bigger than the Santa Maria was. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

From the looks of the maps, Bliss, I think I'm gonna have to pick up 61 south of Hayti, in Steele - looking at the maps there is not much to show where 61 ran between Steele and Hayti - the maps I have of the area aren't really old enough. Even Streets & Trips doesn't show a clear routing, unless it's AR 164 to AR Route D to 84. Unless - I just noticed AR 439 and AR Route H are literally under 55 into Hayti from Steele - wonder if that's the old 61!! Hmmmmmm KC and I did do some of that area a few years back on our trip to South Dakota. As I recall, we followed 61 (part of the way) thru Steele and it dead-ended against the interstate. Streets and Trips shows a broken line in that area, whatever that means. Will check it out. Y'all have a great day now, hear - and a very Merry Christmas and best of the New Year to all. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Right - on AR 77, which is the old U S 61 route. That actually runs between U S 70 in downtown West Memphis to Turrell. Joins the current 61, which is co-signed with I-55, at exit 23. U S 63 also joins at that point. 61 and 63 are co-signed with I-55 all the way into Memphis. U S 64 also gets stirred into the pot somewhere in there. 77 terminates at U S 70 in downtown Left Memphis. Sure would have been easier if they'd just left the original route numbers as was. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Y'all come wandering thru Memphis, Denny, we'll find a place for you to sleep - won't be up to Fodors standards, but the roof don't leak and there ain't no roaches!!!!! LOL Talk of 2008 road trips got me thinking. I might take a run down 51 to Winona, at least; there's supposed to be a Blues Museum in Greenwood, so that's not far from Winona; and maybe back up thru Clarksdale and across the river back to Left Memphis. Then there's 64 over to Chattanooga; all sorts of runs here and there that could be done on day trips. Had thought of another run north on 51 to Dyersburg, then across the river and see if we could find old 61 back down to Left Memphis. Least ways that's the thinking at the moment. We do have one long trip planned this summer - the end of July up to MA to my Hudson car club national meet in Marlborough, MA (22-25 July) - but that will mostly interstate travel, unfortunately. Incidentally, any of y'all happen to be in that area around that time, drop in and see us - you don't have to be a Hudson club member to drop by and look at the cars. The best days for viewing are Wed thru Sat noon time. After the Sat business meeting some folks start heading for home - with the major exodus occuring Sunday morning. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Yeah, a million hardly keeps my in gasoline and heat these days. LOL (Oh, yeah - even Memphis requires heat in the house in the winter time - it was a mild (for the north) 29 this morning at 6am - and it's only 53 now!!!) Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Great write-up and loved the videos - enjoyed the narration on the old alignment much more, now that I got the sound back on my computer system. Don't know what I liked best about the 1962 film clip of Virginia City - the old buildings, or the old cars (which weren't so old back then. LOL) Keep up the great work. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, Tenn.

Mine would be coming up to age 99, the 1st of January. He left us for that better world 5 days short of his 80th. It's a long story, but my oldest daughter and her son had come to Maine from Memphis for Christmas that Dec 1988 - I've always said Dad waited for her to arrive so he could see the grand-daughter he'd last seen when she was a baby in 1959. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

Me too!!!!!! I got a new key chain - hmmmmmmmmmm. Where to put it. I know - I have a spare set of keys to the car. I'll put those on it. Thanks very much for the key chain - that's pretty rugged, too. Should last a long time. I have another one that most of my keys are on that was given to me by a fellow I was stationed with in the Coast Guard - it has a Coast Guard emblem on it. That's lasted over 30 years. Safe Traveling everybody Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

I have discovered, over the years, that about 98% of motels are decent, clean and have a friendly and helpful staff. I can really think of only two that I wasn't all that happy about, both Days Inn's and both on the same trip. I will admit the Days Inn in Nashville, where we had our 1999 Hudson car club National meet had an excuse, however feeble. They were not to far from tearing the place down for airport expansion, so with a room rate of $48 (convention rate), one can excuse, more or less, the fact that half the AC's didn't work (in temps of 110 - at 9 at night), most of the ice machines didn't work and the ones that did couldn't keep up with demand. One rule of thumb - if the roaches are checking out as you're checking in, it might not be a very good place to stay. The other problem Days Inn on that trip was in Somerset, PA, on my way back to Maine. I should have suspected something when the clerk had trouble figuring out what room to put me in. Finally got a room key, went to my room, and found a smoking room (I'd asked for no smoking) that reeked like the back room of a political convention - and WASN"T EVEN MADE UP!!!!!! Did get another one without to much trouble so this really couldn't be considered a "bad" motel. I've had a couple strange motels; one in Bristol, TN, and one, on the same trip, outside Stroudsburg, PA. I usually check in early, around 5 or 5:30. When I get up around 6 in the morning to continue my journey the parking lot(s) are full. In both these motels the lot was empty when I checked in - and empty when I left. In Stroudsburg, at 6:15am, there wasn't even a clerk in the office - couldn't get into the office anyway, there was a window outside. And I sure ain't gonna stand around outside looking for a clerk at the end of January in eastern PA - or anywhere else it's 30 or lower outside!!!!!!!! But I've never stayed in a motel where the parking lot was empty when I left in the morning. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN

If you think Logansport was bad, you ought to try getting from 24 to 224 in Hammond!!!! The only time I went thru there is the last time I'll ever go thru that one. One way streets that turn you away from where you want to go; couldn't find any route signs (one turn on what looked like a main artery, dumped me into a trailer park!!!) I wandered around, completely lost, couldn't find anyplace to find directions - however, coming out of the trailer park I saw a local police officer headed in what seemed to be the right direction (as best I could figure) and sure enough we soon came to a road that looked like it might be the right one with a convenience/gas station on one corner. That proved to be 224, but I never did see a route sign anywhere until I was fairly well east of town. And I was trying to get thru town in broad daylight!!!!! Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN