Stars and Cars

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Thank you gentlemen. I have found a few more pictures to post. This one features the tenor Tito Schipa and the soprano Margherita Salvi with a Pierce-Arrow.
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Here is the tenor Leo Slezak at the wheel of an unidentified car. The scuttle ventilators look like two miniature versions of Mr E.M.Ginn's Expert gramophone horns.
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The bass-baritone Michael Bohnen (1887-1965) seems to have had a taste for fast cars.
The first could be a Benz or a Mercedes, as the absence of front wheel brakes suggests a date prior to 1926 when the two companies amalgamated.
I do not recognise the second car or the female passenger.
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Paul Whiteman clearly knew, and could afford, a good car when he saw one. Here we have a Cord L-29 and a Cadillac V-16.
Look at those fancy tyres on the Cord.
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Edison has been pictured in this thread several times. Now it is Berliner's turn :
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You must listen to Billy Murray's 1906 version of, "In My Merry Oldsmobile" while scrolling through this thread 8-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFruHQJeaRg

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Here is the "Denver Nightingale" himself, but not with a Curved Dash Oldsmobile :
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Here is the Curved Dash Oldsmobile (1902), the purchase of which came with the privately published record from 1905 I think. I believe the EMG gramophone was not included.............
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epigramophone wrote:Here is the "Denver Nightingale" himself, but not with a Curved Dash Oldsmobile :


I tried to google billy murray for that exact pic, but it eluded me. Well done sir!

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epigramophone wrote:Al Jolson with a car which appears to have a customised front end. No doubt our American members will be able to identify it :

"Brewster Ford".

Brewster was a 19th Century carriage maker from New England, that built custom auto coachwork into the mid-1930's, usually very conservative.


These outlandish customs on Ford V-8 chasses were kind of their last gasp in the 1930's. They were somewhat popular with the Hollywood crowd...
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