THOSE WERE THE DAYS

From 1900 to 1960 the region represented the "Real America" lifestyle. American homes were equipped with such brand names like Westinghouse, Hoover, Tappan, Cambridge Glass, NCR, Avon, Procter & Gamble, Marsh cigars, Kelvinator, Ball glass, Oliver tractors, Studebaker

                   
                              Terre Haute  (Indiana)

Those were the days when real America was in Purdue, Notre Dame or Xavier Universities, in a family vacation at Cedar Point Park or Geneva-on-the-Lake, when a car race means Indianapolis, a good basketball game means Indiana, a cat means Garfield, and of course a baseball game was never best experienced than in an evening at Jacobs Field in a home game of the Cleveland Indians.

Even the first "man on the moon" was a Ohio native, John Glenn. Is no wonder that the first man to fly, the Orville brothers in 1901, were from Dayton (Ohio).

A nice portrait of the region in the 1960´s is in the film "The Wonders" (Tom Hanks, 1996)

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