Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Hamilton Motor Company

"They called him Precious.  Precious Hamilton.  Where he got that name, I'll never know but everybody called him Precious." Buddy Baker, my resident walkingWarrensburg History Book, couldn't even point out which of these gentlemen in the picture developed from the Simmons Studio collection of negatives was Precious Hamilton.  Maybe someone else knows.

I couldn't blow up the calendar behind them, so I have no idea when this picture was taken, but Buddy believes the car below is a Desoto from around the mid-40s

Buddy remembers when Hamilton Motors was on East Pine street just behind where the United Missouri Bank is today.  

Here's an matchbook cover Bruce Uhler found,
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The Oldsmobile Rocket was in production from 1949 to 1960.

The 1948 Warrensburg phone book shows they had moved to 314 N. Holden.

They were still in the 1966 phone book, but weren't listed in 1968.


I think next week, I'll do an article on phone books.



4 comments:

  1. Oldsmobile sedanette, probably a '49

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    1. Thanks, MG. You're the one who identified Diemer hall as the location of the Masonic corner stone ceremony, aren't you?

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  2. Who was the Oldsmobile dealer then?

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