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So Grampa's boat train was one mounted to the Ranchero and two (2) in tow? Very VERY cool pix! Thanx!
Yea we rented the mafacturing shop in Anaheim that my Dad and his brothers all worked at. Grandpa and Grandma ran the Retail store in West Anaheim on the corner of Lincoln and Manchester it was a old fruit and vegetable stand with a great big lot behind it. The front of the store didn't have doors it had two great big tilt up doors with poles attached it took 2 guys to open one would grab the pole while the other would push the door up when it got up the other guy would swivel the pole down and stick it in the hole to hold it up. The factory was about 5 miles from the shop and on Thursdays grandpa would start picking up what ever boats were ready to go so he had new inventory for the weekend. Grandpa signed up as the first Mercury dealer in southern Calif in 1954 he bought 2 Merc 30 hp outboards. If you go to Fiber Classic and search Arrow Craft you can see a Mercury Boat House Bullentin on a 1954 or 1955 runabout that was part of the deal for becoming a dealer. Those boat were built in grandpas garage until he burnt it down which is why grandma told him he needed to get a regular shop so he got 2 a factory and a retail store. The store in Anaheim later became West Anaheim Marine and was part of the mid to late 60,s Glastron race program it continued until the the 80,s.