OMG- Magazines!

By Whitney Knowles

The last couple times working at the American Historical Truck Society has been filled with colorful pictures of trucks, truck parts and the people who enjoy them. We have been shuffling through old black and white pictures to organize them by their original serial number. Their collection was disorganized and needed to be fixed. It was cool to see how far trucks have come and the different styles that they would come up with. For example, the 50’s and 60’s trucks looked very “George Jesttson” type of style. They looked more like airplanes and spaceships than trucks and buses that we have come to know. My favorite was the monster truck photos from the 70’s. That was on bad mother on wheels. 1779677_744897012189173_1444640811_n

The next week I got to go through ALL their magazines. It is crazy that they have some from 1936. Most of the copies were from the 1970’s and 1980’s. It was my job to sort them by year and month, which took most of the day to complete. I would flip through some, since it gets boring at times, and found it interesting how the truck world was reacting to the change in technology. They seemed to think it would make their jobs hard when in fact it made it much easier.

funny how times change so fast!

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