1947 August Ford Times Gaspe Peninsula Map Galena, Illinois Hollywood Mishap

Description: Magazine is in very good condition. Compliments of PETERSON MOTOR SALES, INC. BARRON, WISCONSIN PHONE 70 Mailing label says: Chermack’s machine shop Barron Wisconsin T149 Front cover-Fishermen at work on their cod catch against the backdrop of the Three Sisters Cliffs, Percé, Gaspé Penninsula. Painted especially for the Ford Times by Domenic Lupo. The Ford Times comes to you through the courtesy of your local dealer to add to your motoring pleasure and information. ----------- 4 ----------- Sketches by Larrie Harris FUXAR Invitation to the Gaspe CHER HER M'SIEU, MY FREN-It is weet the grand plaisir I receive your letter at the Bureau de Poste, and much celebre for all in Petite-Madeleine to know you came again to the Gaspé. All hold in the heart beaucoup de good souvenir of you and Madame. And this year, my fren, you give promise not to get call home early by telegraphie. You and Madame see the Gaspé complete, not just for fish the salmon. Bon. Voilà. We are content. You say, When de beeg fish come? Who know exactement? Soon now, I begin climb each day the tall pine on top the Trail-remember? I look down the cliff in that slick above the beeg rapides. There the salmon lie, M'sieu, comme tou- jours-shadow beeg like submarine-when they come again to the river. Then I send you the word. Sacré blue! Come! Has Petite-Madeleine change, you demande? Non, M'sieu. Your world change, perhaps. Not Gaspe. For three hundred year people of Gaspesie live this life. Farmland and sea, wind and weather. You think what does 3 ----------- 3 ----------- FORD TIMES August, 1947 Contents Invitation to the Gaspé. New World Brittany.. Touring Gaspé. Slight Mishap in Hollywood... Pendleton Roundup.. Flying Roadable... Galena Granite Graver. . Honeymoon Wagon. Basques of the Purple Sage. 46 MELVIN BECK Favorite Recipes of Famous Taverns. . 51 - My Favorite William D. Kennedy.. Clarence H. Dykeman.. Arthur T. Lougee... Burgess H. Scott. No. 8 Nancy Kennedy.. Pauline Syler.... NANCY KENNEDY .. MAURINE F. RUSSELL PHILIP H. BAILEY BURGESS H. SCOTT TAMARA ANDREEVA Town....... CLARK BODEY Cartoons-18, 23, 28, 31, 40, 50, 61, One-Picture Stories -36, 45, 49; Map of Gaspé-16; Map of Galena-32; Games-55, 58; Letters to the Editor-62. JEFF TAYLOR 2 RUSS ROSENE ... Editor-in-Chief .Managing Editor . . Art Director . Roving Editor Feature Editor Circulation Manager The Ford Times is published monthly by the Ford Motor Company, 3000 Schaefer Road, Dearborn, Michigan. Copyright 1947, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. Printed in U.S.A. All rights reserved. Board of Editors: W. D. Kennedy, Chairman; Charles E. Carll; Irene Cornell; J. R. Davis; C. H. Dykeman; James W. Irwin; Harry W. Lundin. 1 ----------- 3 ----------- Galena, Ill. Watercolor by James Axelrod EACH YEAR a group of Chicago artists make a sketching pilgrimage to this picturesque little Upper Mississippi river town whose fading red-brick glory is as appealing to the tourist as the rare friendliness of its people- See "Galena-My Favorite Town." ----------- 5 ----------- Although nearly every Gaspé family has a small plot of tillable land, the agricultural section of the Matapédia Valley supplies vegetables and grain to most of the peninsula. Split rail fences are common, and the farm buildings have a bare, frugal appearance. While many of the valley farms use modern implements owned col- lectively, most of the farm tools used on the Gaspé still are sturdy, home-made designs such as those used a century ago. For time moves slowly on the Gaspé pen- insula, and even the traveler soon feels the spell of its unhurried existence.-NANCY KENNEDY ----------- 6 ----------- 香 Slight Mishap in Hollywood by Philip H. Bailey Likely as not, the flames will be extinguished, the station wagon be filmed again a half dozen times before Lydecker will be satisfied. He's a crank on realism. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.The sight brushed off, and brought back to of a beautiful, shiny, new Mercury station wagon plunging downward to burst into flames at the bottom of a canyon may make you wince when you see it in the movies, but Howard Lydecker is one man who smiles with satis- faction. For Lydecker, as a special ef- fects director, is one of Holly- wood's experts in staging minia- túre catastrophies. Where stunt men once thrilled an audience, the special effects director now simulates the same feats without danger to anyone. He does it in miniature model sequences so genuine in appear- ance that it takes an expert to dis- tinguish them from the real thing. What the audience doesn't know 19 ----------- 7 ----------- plete with rubber tires, electric headlights, and tiny springs. It was so beautiful that it made even Lydecker sigh with regret when a small explosive charge, planted under a breakaway sec- tion of the bridge, blasted the little sedan into the water. Sound recordings are not made of miniature catastrophes, the noises later being dubbed in by the sound department. They have on hand enough sound recordings and sound making contraptions to make even the most hardened movie goer take notice. ----------- 8 ----------- 0% N THE last Sunday in August the colorful blessing of the shrimp fleet is enacted on the spectator-lined banks of the Petite Caillou Bayou near Baton Rouge, La. Begun in 1938 before the fisherman started their trawling season, the ceremony opens with a simple service in the white frame church, followed by a solemn procession which moves to a barge stationed so that each vessel can pass closely to receive a blessing. As the flag- bedecked fleet begins to slip slowly down the bayou the priests raise their voices in prayer while the Archbishop, dressed in ceremonial robes, sprinkles holy water on each craft as it passes. -SAM MIMS ----------- 9 ----------- On the Rouge Kodachrome of ore ship "Henry Ford II" by Paul Dorsey

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