In Between War and Peace

So, the above montage is Dad’s work in the mid-1950s as he rose to be assistant Chief of Design at George Romney’s American Motors Company. He had started by establishing a relationship with Betty in New York City in 1948. His buddy Bob Veryzer mentioned there were jobs available in Detroit- “The Paris of the Midwest.” Bob was on a project at GM at the time- designing the first post-War sports machine. The Corvette:

We came along in between the one above- The Future- and the montage below, which had swiftly become The Past.

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