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- 2012 & 2013 in Review
- The Silver Streak returns to Illinois
- Meeting with Bill Ford-CEO of Ford Motor Company May 2012
- Duryea Days Car Show
- 2012 Bradford Labor Day Parade
- The Silver Streak in the Wheels of Time Museum for the month of September 2013
- 2013 Bradford Car Labor Day Car Show and Parade
- Pictures from Dinners in Portland, Oregon and San Jose, California where we met descendants of Gypsy Coeds and others connected to the Silver Streak
- The Story
- The Story- Told by the Peoria Journal Star June 3, 2012
- The Story- The Ford Connection (Peoria Journal Star)
- Bradford Republican carries story of 1939 trip to New York Worlds Fair (August 16, 1939)
- Wyoming IL Newspaper Article Oct. 2, 1940 Picture and story of California Trip
- Wyoming IL Newspaper Article, Oct. 2, 1940
- Summer 2012 Bradley Hilltopics
- The Legend of Bill Dorgan
- The Legend of Bill Dorgan (Continued)
- The Car
- The Car-“Lizzie Labeling” (Part 1)
- The Car- “Lizzie Labeling” (Part 2)
- The Car is not for Sale!
- Drivers Side view of the Silver Streak
- Drivers Side Close up of the hood
- Passenger Side View of the Silver Streak
- Close Up – Passenger Side Hood
- Proof it Runs-Sent from Portland OR
- The Silver Streak’s Home
- The Silver Streak returns to Greenfield Village 2013- (75th Anniversary of 1938 Meeting with Henry Ford)
- The Gypsy Coeds
- Darlene Dorgan
- Anne Holland
- Eleanor Butte
- Ruby McDonald
- Helen Fuertges
- Clare Breen
- Margaret Burnett
- Rosemary Moran
- Regina Fennell
- Regina Fennell-1936 Senior Class Picture
- Regina Fennell Butte 2006
- Regina Fennell Butte Obituary
- Regina Fennell Post Card Home
- Regina Fennell Post Card Home
- Regina Fennell Post Card Home
- Regina Fennell Post Card Home
- Regina Fennell Letter Recounting her 1939 Trip
- Regina Fennell Butte Memories Track 1
- Regina Fennell Butte Memories Track 2
- Regina Fennell Butte Memories Track 3
- Regina Fennell Butte – Find A Grave
- Winnie Swearingen
- Marge Dorgan
- Ruth Gustafson
- Zola Dailey
- Harriet Fisher
- Jean Turnbull
- Muriel Cunningham
- Patricia Moffett
- Olive Bell
- Verna Dorgan
- Kathleen Moran
- The Trips
- 1934 Trip-Wisconsin
- 1936 Trip- Wisconsin & Michigan
- 1937 Trip-Canada
- 1938 Trip-Detroit
- 1939 Trip-New York Worlds Fair
- 1939 Trip to Detroit-Leaving Bradford
- 1939 Trip- Picture at New York Worlds Fair
- The Henry Ford Friendship-Newspaper unknown
- 1939 Trip to New York Worlds Fair-Newspaper Article
- 1939 Trip to New York Worlds Fair-Newspaper Story
- Toronto Daily Star 1939 Story
- Toronto Daily Star 1939 Story-Girls mistaken for Gun Girls
- Montreal Newspaper Article 1939
- 1939 Letter to Darlene Dorgan and Regina Fennell from The Toronto Star Newspaper.
- Winnipeg Free Press Newspaper, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, picks up story of the travels of the Gypsy Coeds in their Silver Streak
- The Story Behind the 1939 Picture with Henry Ford’s Signature at the New York Worlds Fair
- 1940 Trip-California & the Golden Gate Exhibition
- 1940 Trip to San Francisco – Leaving Bradford
- 1940 Trip to San Francisco- Leaving Bradford photo 2
- 1940 Trip San Francisco – Leaving Bradford photo 3
- 1940 Trip Story in Bradford Republican- July 24
- 1940 Trip Story in the Tulsa Daily World Newspaper, Friday July 12, 1940
- Article In Oklahoma City Times, July 13, 1940
- 1940 Trip to San Francisco- On the road
- 1940 Hollywood – Picture with actor Don Ameche
- 1940 Hollywood- Picture with actor Chris-Pin Martin, Poncho from The Cisco Kid
- 1940 Trip to San Francisco- in the mountains
- 1940 Golden Gate Exposition- Picture with dignitaries
- 1940 Trip -The Ford Exhibit in San Francisco
- 1940 Trip to San Francisco – Headed home
- 1940 Golden Gate Expo- Communication after visit
- Salt Lake City Newspaper Article about Gypsy Coeds- 1940 Trip
- 1941 Trip-South & East U.S.
- 1941 Trip: Interview with Zola Dailey Shepherd by Stan Hoekstra, Space City T’s, Houston Texas in in 1998
- Start of 1941 Trip-Peoria Star Newspaper photo
- 1941 Trip- Headed to New Orleans- Leaving Bradford photo
- Picture and Article from Sunday July 27 , 1941 New Orleans Item-Tribune
- Article From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 12, 1941
- 1941 Trip – Photo at Ford Plant in Norfolk VA
- 1941 Trip Photo- Location Unknown
- 1941 Trip – Photo in Washington DC from Washington D.C. Times Herald
- 1941 Article from Washington D.C. Newspaper
- 1941 Trip – Photo in front of Salisbury Hotel, New York
- 1941 Trip Photo- Home in Bradford, IL after trip
- Muriel Cunningham’s account of her 1941 Trip- Sterling Illinois Newspaper
- 1942 Trip- Chicago And Michigan
- The Reunions
The Silver Streak 
This is wonderful news! My Dad and I met you at Greenfield Village during the Motor Muster several years ago (pre-covid) and my Dad was so fascinated and bought the book. My Dad went to be with Jesus in June 2021 and I now have the book. He would have loved to have seen this true story on the big screen. I will go to see it in his honor.
Thank you for your note Beth. May I extend my condolences to you the passing of your father. I am happy and excited at the possibility of the story of these remarkable young women making it to the big screen.
Thanks for your note Beth. Let me extend to you my condolences at the passing of your father. Yes, I too am excited to think that
this wonderful and remarkable story of spunky young women traveling across the US in the 1930’s and 1940’s will reach the eyes and ears of a much broader audience when it hits the big screen. I think it honors a whole generation. Best regards,