Welcome to my blog! This is a real honest-to-goodness photograph of the first truck my father purchased to transport furniture consigned to him for restoration. He did the lettering on the truck himself. His business was in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn in the 1920's and the name of the business, Safra Roma, came from this ancient Roman coin, which I still have in my possession.
My grandfather was a cowboy in Argentina and a cowboy in our own Wild West. He came to Waterbury CT from Italy in 1932 to work with my father, restoring and making fine furniture. At some point he worked installing railroad track from New York to Connecticut.
I don't ride a horse or drive a truck. The last thing I carted in my vehicle was a box of water damaged music books. I had to spray my trunk with Fabreze to get rid of the mildew odor. They didn't have Febreze back in the day but it looks like the air conditioning option didn't cost extra! My appraisal assignments have taken me all over the country in my various roadsters and I have a lot to share, so keep coming back for more posts.
