[H. L. Chauvin]

Supposedly Packards were extremely tough cars.

In about 1947 we saw & photographed a guy with his four (4) door cars at the base of Pikes Peak -- he had several cars, only Packards, offering Pikes Peak Tours.

My Dad asked him why he had only Packards running up & down Pikes Peak whereby his response was that he had been offering these tours for years, had tried many different vehicles, but only the Packards could stand up to continuously ascending & descending the gravel road going up Pikes Peak all day long.

We went up on the cog train, again in a Packard, & another day in our 1942 Desoto -- few years later, went up again in our 1948 Desoto -- the same old Packards were still being used in this Pikes Peak touring business.

These "were" the days when millions of top quality products were mostly made in America by Americans, who were "producing" excellent products to sell for a "profit" to foreign countries.

If one wanted top quality in those days, America "was" the place for foreign countries & foreign investors to shop.

These early photos depict what "was" America's Golden Age that we lived through.

Today we have thousands & thousands of more U.S. Government employees shuffling useless papers & producing nothing to sell to foreign countries, & thousands of more & more non-producing people on welfare.

Some are going in circles, scratching their heads & wondering why our America is very slowly sliding downwards.

Articles like this are very educational if responsible individuals in future generations ever become interested in our America making a come-back.