Cadillac Memories

[billyoung]

I will be 70 in December. I remember vividly growing up in Rochester, New York and being a car kid especially a Cadillac Kid starting about age 7, riding my bike from my house to my Grand Parents house that was on the next block and seeing a brand new 1961 Cadillac Sedan DeVille it was Lexington Green and I parked my bike next to the curb and sat and stared. The owner couple walked up and asked about me and I said I Love your car. They said they liked it, I restated I Love your car. I discovered that the National Geographic magazines my grand parents got had Cadillac ad's in them. They let me cut them out and my Parents let me scotch tape them around my room. I memorized the advertising lines of each.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Bill, I did much the same thing, except it was the earlier years of the fifties. I'd get copies of the Saturday Evening Post from the library, and I believe, trace the Cadillac ads onto a sheet of paper and put continental kits on them. Either that or my Grandmother had a subscription and I could cut them out. (It's been a long time ago...)

I liked the 1950-1953 CDVs and convertibles the best. The connie kit looked the best on them.

I once bought a trunk load of National Geographic magazines from a lady somewhere, and went through them, cutting out the car ads. They went way back in the 1930s and so, there was a lot of good stuff to find.

[Jeff Rosansky CLC #28373]

My grandparents had a 73 that I remember, but not well. Then they bought a brand new 77 Cdv. Red with white leather. 1st time I saw that car I was hooked.

[David Greenburg]

A few years later than Bill, but I did the same thing with the Nat'l Geo. ads. I had them all, from '53 to '70. Somehow I still have a couple of them, including the '64 "Life is one Cadillac after another" ad which I had framed, complete with the thumbtack holes in the corners.  A few years ago I realize that this ad was shot in front of an apartment building a block away from my in-laws on Sacramento St. in San Francisco.