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On 11/11/2019 at 9:30 PM, Xander Wildeisen said:

I stopped by the National Automobile Museum on the way back from the SEMA show. I will post  pictures of the cars. Got a bunch of them, comment as they are posted. It will take awhile. Something to do while I drink a beer, maybe two, ok three.:D

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I wonder if they were doing some work on it.  That's certainly not were it was parked when I saw it last May!!

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 I do not know if the paper can be enlarged? There is a picture of Bill Harrah in the lobby of what was the Stanley lodge. Not sure if it has a different name now? If you have never been to Stanley Idaho, it is one of the best places in the entire country. You just have to like winter, because you will get a dose of it there. I think he built the lodge, not sure. We did electrical work up there years ago. From there you can go down to Smiley Creek, over Galena summit and drop into Ketchum and Sun Valley. I would not blame anyone for investing in that area, gorgeous.

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They were moving this car around when I was there. I am guessing it would be a full time job tending to that many cars. I cringe at buying one battery anymore, maintaining a collection like that, a person/museum would have to stay on top of it. Very nice building, staff was great. I would go back.

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On 11/12/2019 at 2:44 AM, wayne sheldon said:

 

 

This car (shown here and in the photo originally above this one) is the one and only 1925 Julian. This car is so special, so amazingly different from almost everything else in the era, one really must find and read a lengthy article about it to appreciate it! A few people have jokingly called it the "Tucker of the '20s". The inside is like a sitting parlor. The driver sits in the middle. A few safety features decades ahead of their time. And a rear mounted rotary engine (sound familiar?).

 

It was also my younger brother's favorite of all automobiles ever. 

The February, 1977 issue of Car Classics magazine compared it with Tucker: https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/stove-huggers-the-non-studebaker-forum/48183-orphan-of-the-day-12-16-1925-julian

 

It does have a rather opulent interior:

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STANLEY, Idaho—Bill Harrah, the Reno gambling baron, has been a regular visitor to Stanley for almost 40 years. Apparently he likes this town—he has already bought half of it.

He is also buying up much of Idaho, providing something of a mystery about his intentions. At any rate, his millions are at work, not only in the form of acquisitions but also in construction.

Mr. Harrah is the biggest thing to hit town since Capt. John Stanley fed a group of prospectors into the Stanley Basin in 1863. In the years before Mr. Harrah started buying up land and businesses, the place didn't grow much. The official highway sign lists the population as 47, but people here say more than 160 persons now live in Stanley.

Mayor Gerald Nicholson estimates that more than $3 million has been invested in Stanley by Mr. Harrah. There seems to be no way to determine the exact amount because the multimillionaire is tight‐lipped.

“You can talk to Mr. Harrah for an hour, and when you get done you don't know any more than when you started,” said Maxine Baptiste, manager of the Harrah‐owned Mountain Village Cafe.

Many Idaho citizens fear that the Nevada gambling tycoon will turn Stanley into a casino town if gambling is ever legalized here. There has been a lobbying effort in the Idaho Legislature, but there has been no apparent Harrah political influence. So far the Legislature has not considered any bills to legalize gambling in Idaho.

Bud James, president of the Chamber of Commerce, feels that Idaho gambling would detract from Mr. Harrah's Reno and Lake Tahoe operations.

“All of the businesses are benefiting from Mr. Harrah's presence. One thing is certain though: You don't know what he is going to do until he does it,” said Mr. James, who is assistant manager of Saw Tooth Mercantile, a Harrah holding.

“My current guess is that he is attempting to make a model Western town, sort of like Henry Ford's Greenfield Village near Detroit,” Mr. James said.

At any rate, Mr. Harrah's construction workers are busy remodeling businesses throughout the town, usually adding massive timbers and rough‐cut lumber facades.

Mr. Harrah, an antique‐car buff, has a Stanley Steamer nn display in a huge glass case at one of the service stations he owns in Stanley.

Stanharrah is the name of his corporation devoted to Idaho ventures. Mark Curtis, vice president of Harrah's Club in Reno, declared that Mr. Harrah's Idaho enterprises were personal and separate from the gambling operation. Mr. Curtis denied there were any plans to establish a casino in Stanley.

“There is no ultimate goal or grandiose plan,” he said. “Mr. Harrah's first efforts are to improve anything he owns. He's just that kind of guy. He loves the Stanley area and the people. Rather than just be a visitor, he wants to be part of the community.”

Part of Mr. Harrah's community involvement has been to provide housing —there is a severe shortage—for his 60 employees and a fire truck and station. Also he has made cash donations toward a community meeting center.

“He sincerely wants to keep a Western atmosphere in Stanley. He wants it to be a nice town and not full of condominiums,” said Ivan Sack, a retired Forest Service forester employed by Mr. Harrah as a “resource consultant.”

Mr. Harrah, a tall gray‐haired 65year‐old man, is often seen in Stanley along with his wife, Verna, and their sons. He has been a regular visitor (now using a 20‐passenger private plane) since 1939, and he maintains a home here. He usually leaves a $5 tip regardless of what he orders, according to one waitress.

While nobody in Stanley has much bad to say about the Harrah acquisitions, some people are afraid of what “could happen.”

So far Mr. Harrah owns about 70 acres of Stanley, the only two filling stations in town, two restaurants, a grocery, a pizza parlor and a motel. He has plans for another restaurant.

No one knows—or will say—what Mr. Harrah ultimately plans to do in Idaho. Whatever it is, he will have plenty of land and business holdings from which to launch any venture.

 
 
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Funny story about Stanley. We wired a cabin up there for a guy that was an editor for the Washington Post. I think that was the paper he worked for. (it's been a few years) He bought a beautiful piece of property, right from the front porch viewed a meadow and the Sawtooth Mountains. His wife was going to stay in DC, and he could work from Stanley over the computer/phone/fax. I was there trimming out the electrical in the finished cabin, installing the kitchen outlets on the island. It was in the late fall, and the owner was going to stay over winter, and do his job for the paper from there.  I am drinking a beer and laughing thinking about this.:lol: So I am in the kitchen, and the owner walks in from a trip down here in the valley. Sets some stuff on the island counter top. And starts to tell me about how he is going to spend the winter there. He said he just picked up some supplies. He sets on the counter top a rolled up screw driver set, looks like a tool kit from the trunk of a vintage car. Unrolls it, so we can see the 10 piece screw driver set. He was very excited new adventure, beautiful cabin dream come true. Now I had been everywhere in the cabin working, and in the garage/outbuilding. So I had a good idea of what was on hand. And I knew what kind of car he had. I have never been to DC, so I do not know how bad the winters can get. I am guessing that he had not been to Stanley in the winter. I often wonder how that first winter went?

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