Today s installment of Throwback Thursday takes us to the northwest corner of West Second Avenue and North Washington streets.
In 1920, Albert Kirk, who owned the Hutchinson Motor Car Co. built a three-story building but leased it to James Davis and Louie Child to open the Davis-Child Ford dealership.
Davis-Child moved out in 1931 and became a Chevy dealership. That s when Kirk moved his Hutchinson Motor Car Co. here to sell Hudsons. In 1935, employees sold some Hudson Terraplanes with the electric hand shifter. This sales gimmick was really an assisted manual transmission. The driver still shifts the gears, via an adorable little gated shifter on the column and the clutch is still used to actuate the shift.