Truck For Sale
Carlin Joe
1940’s America was dominated by the end of War World II and war production was easing the Great Depression. Artists and intellectuals from all over Europe were fleeing Hitler and the Holocaust. They flooded the free world with an abundance of ideas and the enthusiasm of change. The shape of everything was changing. Literally. The exodus from the home to the workplace began and women began to drive in unprecedented numbers. And then the men came home.
The automotive industry would never be the same.
At some point in the decade after the war ended, this truck was made. Hopes were high, maybe that accounts for the way the door is shaped like a driver leaned over the wheel in anticipatoin. This truck probably rolled up to a few drive-in restaurants, in its day, rumbling softly the way old trucks do.
I wonder who was driving?
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