Sunday Jaunt
Sunday Jaunt
A
twenty minutes drive led us to a vast area of exhibits of a different kind.
Henry Ford, the motor wizard of the USA with his vision and foresight had kept
open an automobile museum for visitors. Entry tickets were expensive judging
from the Indian standard. But the expensive Presidential limousines used by Roosevelt
and Kennedy and a host of older models gleaming with steel and shine were a
visual feast indeed. The huge monster of a car rode by John F. Kennedy when he
was shot from a distance kindled the memories of 1963 when the explosive news
reached India. The heavy rail engines, snow removers, aeroplanes of yester
years, the legacy of America displayed in a series of wall displays, especially
the blood stained rocking chair on which Abraham Lincoln sat watching a
performance and shot on April 14th 1865 and finally a feel of an
imax theatre which was almost empty – all these registered within four
memorable hours.
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