Today would have been my grandfather’s 126th birthday, so I hereby post this year’s edition of the digital birthday card. Here he is with the family:

Based on the front axle and the bolts in the exterior dashboard, I’d say this was taken at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry in the early-to-mid-50s. The exhibit, “Yesterday’s Main Street,” depicted a 1910-ish city street scene, including a bunch of storefronts that would have been the bee’s knees back then. Grampa was old enough to comment on the veracity of the exhibit, though I don’t know if he would’ve been in downtown Chicago in 1910. Either way, it would’ve been neat to hear the commentary.

Don’t know for sure what kind of car that is, but while digging around online I learned that Sears used to sell cars manufactured by Lincoln. That shouldn’t be surprising; they used to sell houses, so why not cars?

Happy birthday!