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anything, it surpassed the Ford we had loved so dearly and we were to enjoy it for the next nine or ten years.  However, as luck would have it, our dreamboat sustained a minor but evident scar soon after we got it in April.  I drove it to the Kahkwa Club to a GE meeting and parked it in a fine spot near the front entrance.  When I returned to the car, I discovered a dent about six inches long near the bottom of the left side door where someone had banged it.  I was both broken-hearted and furious.  The scar wasn't quite bad enough to spend maybe $25 to get it fixed because that was a lot of money to me in 1941, but it was just bad enough to draw my attention to it every time I approached that side of the car.  I still remember that incident and I never go to the Kahkwa Club even now, 35 years later, that I don't look at that place where our lovely blue Dodge was parked and recall my anguish at the discovery.
  We had such a good time on our 1936 Great Lakes cruise to Chicago that we were determined to take another some day.  We decided to do it in 1941 except to take the one to Duluth instead of Chicago although we were able to again take the S.S. SOUTH AMERICAN.  Whereas on the 1936 trip I took numerous snapshots and made a write-up of the cruise immediately afterward, hurriedly and in pencil to be sure but something that hit all the people and the high spots, on the 1941 cruise I took some 8mm movies but kept no notes whatever and there is little to use for material.  From the 1936 material I produced a 24-page write-up that I think was pretty interesting largely because ti was full of people and personalities and wasn't too much of a travelogue.  But for this 1941 effort, I have little hope.  For one thing, there are no pictures because you can't make satisfactory prints from 8mm movie frames.  And in the second place, without notes I can't reconstruct anything worthwhile about the people.  All I could do was run off the 8mm movies and make notes of what they show but they aren't very enlightening.  And this is all unfortunate because I know that we had a fine cruise and all of us enjoyed it thoroughly.  And to add insult to injury, I took movies only on the outbound trip so that there's no record of any kind of the trip back from Duluth to Buffalo.
  By the time we took this trip, Bab was practically 13 while Rog had had his 9th birthday so we didn't have the worries about them and their safety that we'd had in 1936.  They made a handsome pair and there are numerous fine movie shots of them that I wish I could reproduce to put in here.  To gain the time to go all the way to Duluth, which is farther from Buffalo than Chicago is, this cruise skipped Georgian Bay, going directly to Mackinac Island from Detroit.  Otherwise, the trip to that point from a geographic standpoint was the same as the 1936 one.  The pictures show Cleveland Light, the lookout in the bow, Willie and the children on deck, freighters and more freighters, a few passengers wandering around, more of the