Institution: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) / Topic: Trucks - Topics

Notes:: When Fred Green ran for governor the second time in 1939. The float is a platform truck, compliments of Grand Rapids Varnish Corp. The bed of the truck has been made to look like a garden, with white picket fence and greenery. Several young women in white are riding on the float. The banner below says “Keep Michigan Green."
Date Created:: 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: A photo of a fleet of seven new Grand Rapids Herald delivery trucks and their drivers, taken at John Ball Park. The drivers are sitting in the trucks with the drivers side window rolled down, the ground is snow covered and the background is composed of bare-limbed trees and an overcast sky.
Date Created:: 1938-01-21T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: Man in white coverall and young boy standing beside a truck made to look like a locomotive with a sign tied on, "The Iron Horse."
Date Created:: 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: A truck photographed in Fulton St. Park. The front end of the pictured conveyance shows an exposed engine block stamped “Frontenac.” Radiator grille, headlamps, and spoke wheels with thin rubber tires ("all weather Goodyear") complete the front end. Two men are sitting in the truck, one in the drivers' seat with his hand on the steering column and the other in the front passenger seat with one leg hanging out the doorless entry. The body of the truck is lettered “The Covered Wagon”. There appear to be two bench seats behind the front seats above which is a canvas roof. Several men and one boy are standing behind the vehicle on the curb.
Date Created:: 1927-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: The exterior of Gezon Motors, 716-738 Monroe Ave NW, a distributor of the Studebaker, with the round Studebaker logos above the doors. This 1949 image shows the expansion of the building to include a truck sales and service.
Date Created:: 1949-01-08T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: Men in truck filled with scrap. A sign on the truck reads "National Defense Silo, Bring Your Old Aluminum Here."
Date Created:: 1941-07-29T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: "Interstate Common Motor Carriers Systems" is the name on this General Motors truck with cab and trailer, also displaying the GMC logo. Some of the undercarriage is visible in the photo.
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: A truck from the 1930s owned by Star Transfer Line, Grand Rapids to Detroit. There's also sign on the side about Interstate Motor Carriers System. Star Transfer Line, 134 Grandville Avenue SW, was owned by the Bylenga family. C. W. Mills Paper Company, 206 Grandville Avenue SW, is visible in the background.
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Notes:: The Columbian Storage & Transfer Co building at 435-39 Ionia S.W. This exterior photo appears to be at the intersection of Ionia and McConnell, facing southwest. A man is standing in front of a few trucks in front of the multi-windowed building. The streets are brick paved, and there are utility poles with telephone and electric lines along the street.
Date Created:: 1937-12-30T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

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