(A total of 42 cars participated in the Bill Reddig Rally at Grissom Air Park near Peru, IN, on Bill’s birthday yesterday. Photo Mike Socotra).
As discerning readers well know, Peru, Indiana, is known as the Circus City.
Back in the day, the rails going north and south and east and west all intersect here on the banks of the Wabash River, and it was a logical place for the National and Regional Shows to hang their hats in the winter.
Composer Cole Porter is from here, a real sophisticate. Actually, he is still here, over at the cemetery.
And here my brother and I joined the Hoosier American Motors Club to celebrate the Summer Show named for our Dad.
It was very cool- the cars were on display under the wings of some great historical airplane at the Grissom Air Park, outside of what is left of the old SAC base outside Peru. I am typing in an upstairs room at the Knighta Inn on Rt 31, surrounded by soybean fields.
We are traveling in a bit, me headed back to DC and my brother to the Golden West. So, this will have to do for the trip. More tomorrow, ins’hallah.
All the pictures are up on my Facebook page, though, more than a hundred. It was a pretty cool day.
Vic
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