Must have been a stiff ride with solid tires all the way around.

Eleven wonderful trucks!! Those rigs look pretty much exactly like I imagine my TT looked when it was new.

Jay - the front springs on TTs are pretty flexible, the same as a car in the early trucks. Although I've never ridden in a truck with solid tires, I doubt if the fronts were too bad. The rears, on the other hand, are just plain stiff, regardless of tire type. In my experience the rear spring needs upwards of 1,000 pounds load to soften up noticeably.

Thanks for another enjoyable photo!

Vernor's original ginger ale is still the best. It burns going down.

Vernor's is better in the bottle than in the can--it loses something when kept in the can. Getting harder to find it in a bottle.

Vernor's is better in the bottle than in the can--it loses something when kept in the can. Getting harder to find it in a bottle.

Vernor's is the best. Made in the D (still).

That photo must have been in Detroit. The Church to the right appears to be Mariner's Church that was moved to a new location as part of the development of the Detroit River and the Renaissance Center.

Cool stuff.

I agree, I love Vernors. Anybody ever try a "Vernor's float"? Coupla dips of vanilla ice cream in a tall frosted in the freezer glass on a hot summer day can't be beat! However, I have to say I had a Vernors not more than a month ago and frankly it didn't have that "burn" like it used to. Maybe it was just old. Or my body is. I know my mind is. And oh yeah, I bet those trucks had a real neat "clink clink" to them rambling down the road!

If you like ginger ale you should try Bundaburg Ginger Beer Soda,It ain't cheap here in the states but it's awesomely good! I mix it 50/50 with club soda.

Bottled still plenty available in MI. Although the bottle is plastic and I think it loses something esp if not consumed in a timely manner.

Vernors float is properly called a Boston Cooler named after Boston street in Detroit. Remember Henry
Ford lived in the Boston Edison district before Fairlane. The flavor was originally created by storing the syrup in barrels. Vernor
was a pharmacist who went off to fight the Civil War for a period of.....guess what....four years! When he returned the syrup had aged to perfection. Hence,
the original slogan of Flavor aged in barrels four years. The original family sold the business and it
has been resold several times. The syrup is no longer aged four years and hence the product has lost something. When I had my tonsils out in the
early fifties the hospital fed me an exclusive diet of Vernor's for two days.

Ah, thought it didn't taste the same as when I discovered it in LA back in the early 70s (wasn't available in Siskiyou county; we were too rural).
Tim, if it was in the can, somehow it really loses it's "punch" in the can.
Norman; sounds like the usual: a big company takes over a smaller company, "tweeks" the product to fit THEIR production style, and the uniqueness is lost.

Yep,
I preferred Vernors in the bottle back in the 1930s

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Gene

For the longest time it wasn't available down south but I'm sure that's probably changed. Used to be only a local thing. I remember the first time I went to Florida back in '82 we stopped at a local ice cream shop and I asked the girl for a Boston cooler. She looked at me like I had bananas growing out of my ears! She asked what the heck a Boston cooler was and I told her Vernor's and ice cream and she said "What's a Vernor's and where are you from"? I said Vernor's is ginger ale and I'm from Detroit. She says "If you're from Detroit, then why is it called a Boston Cooler and not a Detroit Cooler?". I think I just ordered a malt.

LOL Bill, and good to now know the "real name" for a Vernors float! If only our late neighbor lady were still around that got us hooked on them, maybe I could've given her a bit of Trivia. She probably didn't know that description either or would've told us. We miss that ol' gal.

My wife's former job is partially responsible for Vernors leaving Detroit. For years the Vernors plant was on Woodward with many glass windows like a showroom so you could watch the bottling.

Vernors wanted to expand their operation and offered to knock down the building, the Whitney Mansion in which she was employed under the Visiting Nurses Association. The VNA sold the building and it became a restaurant. So this is why Vernors is no longer the "aged in oak barrels" product that was exclusive to Detroit.

And all this started because pharmacist Jim Vernor left an oak barrel of ginger ale syrup in his basement while he went to the Civil War.

I miss watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade from the upper stories of the VNA.