t8afao posted:At work today so I set up a fastrack loop with my USMC war train. Nothing says Christmas like a rocket launcher. The tree it sits under the original when the station was built in 1958.
Great retro tribute!
Before I saw this post, my wife and I were talking about our old Christmas trees over 49 1/2 years of marriage. I reminded her of the aluminum Christmas tree that I would put up every year in the window of the Parts Department where I worked in our family's Ford Dealership, complete with rotating color light and lovely gifts under it such as a box of spark plugs, a case of oil filters or a shiny, right hand outside accessory mirror.
Too bad that, being more into my cars and girls (mostly my then girlfriend, now wife, of course), I never thought to dig out some of my American Flyer trains to add even more holiday "class" to the display.
I think that the aluminum tree was in a well worn box in the parts storage area when we bought the Ford store in 1963, and it was still in use when we married an moved away in 1969.
Thanks for the memories!
Alan
Keizer, OR
