File: chappellella06-oh-firstcar_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Thomson Chappell
EC: Everybody went in a horse and wagon then because there was no cars. And I can remember the first cars when they were around: or pretty near the first, I guess. I must tell you this little story. There's people live next store to us, they had to go in the horse and wagon and the people across the road had got a new car. They went to town one day, and this lady got tellin' – And she got home and was tellin' my father, she said, "We come home in the pourin' rain with the horse and wagon, and the neighbors next door passed us in their glass cage" (laughter) I never forgot that, and that was our neighbors. They had the car you see, and it was rainin like everything. And perhaps they would have an umbrella they could put over their head, but they got tellin' my father in the house there, and they come home in their glass cage. It was so cute!
