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Old Studebaker Dealership

We spotted this old brick dealership building in Red Cloud, Nebraska, a town known for being the home of author Willa Cather as well as the inspiration for some of her novels.

The sign is amazing. It is sun bleached and difficult to read, but the vertical letters spell “Studebaker” while the horizontal letters spell “Killough Motor Co.”

I searched old newspapers in order to date this sign. The only reference I was able to find to this particular dealership, Killough Motors, was at the bottom of this 1940 advertisement:

And yes, that’s a Chevy, not a Studebaker, sitting in the front window, but what a great place to park and display your vintage cars!

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Another Old Dealership

I have a real weakness for old dealership buildings, and we spotted this one the other day in a small town called Osceola, Nebraska. Notice that the building next to it is the American Legion with Old Glory flying out front. If you were to remove the modern vehicles from the vicinity of this well-kept block structure and replace them with a few classics, you would think you were back in the fifties.