Name/Title
1948 Glidden Tour - Earle Eckel with steam car at Bedford Springs, PA, 1948Entry/Object ID
2012.01.404Description
Front Writing/Back Writing: "Earle Eckel Bedford Springs, 1948." Likely taken at the the Bedford Springs resort
The 1948 Glidden tour started in Philadelphia, probably the morning after the Antique Automobile Club of
America Annual Fall Meet at the Devon Horse Show grounds. Clarence (with the Stanley Mountain Wagon) and Tom (with the 1914 Stanley Model 607) joined the other 40-plus cars on the tour at Fairmount Park with the route then
following the Horseshoe Pike (Route 322) through Honey Brook and Ephrata to the first night’s destination at the
Hotel Hershey. The tour continued on to Harrisburg, with lunch around Carlisle and where it entered the only
section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike then open at Middlesex (this exit is now called Carlisle). The second day ended at the famous Bedford Springs Resort, the “summer White House” in President Buchanan’s time. The third day consisted of a parade through Bedford Springs with the tour retracing its steps to Harrisburg and on to Reading on the fourth and final day.
See "Tom Marshall’s Weekly News, November 14, 2005" below for more details regarding the 1948 tour.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Photographic print: B&WSubject Person or Organization
Earle EckelCollection
FAH Photo ArchiveGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: Black and White