That 1949 Oldsmobile 88 was our family car when we moved to Washington in the early 1950s but it had a prior history. I have a faint memory of going to Logan with Dad to bring it home as a new car. It was painted two tone... gray on the bottom and cream color on the top. When it was still quite new Mom decided to drive it to LasVegas! She and a few girl friends were going to see a show starring their favorite singer, Vic Damone. He must have been a real lady-killer at the time! Mom arrived back home with little candy treats for Reed and I but bad news for Dad. She had wrecked the new car! The next thing I remember was getting the car back with a new paint job. It was two-tone but with orange on the bottom and cream on the top. I didn't know it at the time but Mom's favorite colors were red and orange. The car looked really snazzy painted orange. Sometime later, Mom had our livingroom couch cut in half and re-upholstered with fake leather in a bright red color. Yikes! Still later, when Mom chose the paint color for the kicthen walls in their new house out on the farm, she chose "Flamingo Red" and it looked fabulous! Even later when she chose the formica counter top color for the kitchen in Utah, she chose orange! I liked it so much that I chose the same color for our kitchen. Red and orange are vibrant, lively colors just like Mom's personality!
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