When we got to Miami we went to the house of my dad's former student, Dr. Joe Scott.
Car and Joe's boat from the pool
Bob and Dad looking at the car
Bob preparing the Convertible Sedan for the drive
The only thing I remember about it was his great hospitality
The girls in Joe's pool
and the fact that his Boston terrier bit my daughter who had walked between the dog and his food dish. It wasn't a serious bite.
Joe's daughter and his dog with me and the kids.
Then Bob got in the Convertible Sedan with a jug of water for the radiator beside him on the seat. I drove the PB four door sedan, and my mother drive the VW bus with the two kids and my dad.
Both the Plymouths had something called "Floating Power". The 4 cylinder engines vibrated a lot and the engineers took care of that by supporting the engines on two supports topped with an elastic material - so they vibrated but didn't transmit the vibration to the body of the car. They also had Free Wheeling which was a really early form of automatic transmission - if you were in 2nd or 3rd gear and you wanted to shift, you took your foot off the gas and the clutch disengaged leaving the engine running at idle. You could shift up to third or down to second without using the clutch. You always had to use the clutch to shift out of first or down into first. The VW had four on the floor.
We drove the 166 miles down to Key West But there are no photos that I know of -
Welcome Center
At the motel
Hotel pool
The End of Route 1
Miami to key west - 166 miles 4 hours
We rented a big room over a garage in town for a month. It had several alcoves for beds, and there was a kitchen and a bathroom which had the only door.. We explored Key West with my parents ,including taking the Conch Train tour, which in those days was more than just Old Town.
Kids with the Conch Train
US Coast Guard
In those days there were several Navy bases - the main base, the submarine base, the heliport, the BOQ, the Commissary, the Naval Air Station at Boca Chica, the Navy hospital and the Sigsbee Park housing. There was also the Coast Guard base, and even a small contingent from the Air Force and the Army
The Old Custom's house
Dad took the kids swimming on the base
Along with Jack Glaeser and his children
We rented a house, Mother and Dad went home and we waited for our furniture to arrive from Califronia.
House we rented
Car and Joe's boat from the pool
Bob and Dad looking at the car
Bob preparing the Convertible Sedan for the drive
The only thing I remember about it was his great hospitality
The girls in Joe's pool
and the fact that his Boston terrier bit my daughter who had walked between the dog and his food dish. It wasn't a serious bite.
Joe's daughter and his dog with me and the kids.
Then Bob got in the Convertible Sedan with a jug of water for the radiator beside him on the seat. I drove the PB four door sedan, and my mother drive the VW bus with the two kids and my dad.
Both the Plymouths had something called "Floating Power". The 4 cylinder engines vibrated a lot and the engineers took care of that by supporting the engines on two supports topped with an elastic material - so they vibrated but didn't transmit the vibration to the body of the car. They also had Free Wheeling which was a really early form of automatic transmission - if you were in 2nd or 3rd gear and you wanted to shift, you took your foot off the gas and the clutch disengaged leaving the engine running at idle. You could shift up to third or down to second without using the clutch. You always had to use the clutch to shift out of first or down into first. The VW had four on the floor.
We drove the 166 miles down to Key West But there are no photos that I know of -
Welcome Center
At the motel
Hotel pool
The End of Route 1
Miami to key west - 166 miles 4 hours
We rented a big room over a garage in town for a month. It had several alcoves for beds, and there was a kitchen and a bathroom which had the only door.. We explored Key West with my parents ,including taking the Conch Train tour, which in those days was more than just Old Town.
Kids with the Conch Train
US Coast Guard
In those days there were several Navy bases - the main base, the submarine base, the heliport, the BOQ, the Commissary, the Naval Air Station at Boca Chica, the Navy hospital and the Sigsbee Park housing. There was also the Coast Guard base, and even a small contingent from the Air Force and the Army
The Old Custom's house
Dad took the kids swimming on the base
Along with Jack Glaeser and his children
We rented a house, Mother and Dad went home and we waited for our furniture to arrive from Califronia.
House we rented
- Previous entry in the series 'Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966': Taking the Southern Route - Colorado to Miami - After Day 9
