For more information go to The Gypsy Coeds- Zola Dailey- Zola Dailey thru her daughter
Check it out at “The Trips”, “1939 Trip-New York”
Check it out at “The Trips”, “1941 Trip- South and East U.S.” It includes a picture of Peg Brunett, asleep on the back of the Silver Streak.
Look for the srticle under “The Trips”, “1941 Trip, South & East US”
Electronic media, the internet and this website is credited with tracking down a fourth living Gypsy Coed, Patricia Moffett Bjorling from rural Knoxville, Illinois. And the lead came from one of our neighbors in our subdivision, who saw the website, and remembered that Mrs Bjorling (her neighbor while she was growing up in rural Knoxville Illinois )was a Moffett. The website referenced Patricia Moffitt (different spelling) from Galesburg. Patricia actually was from rural Knoxville Illinois and went to school in Iowa with Margie Dorgan. Margie invited her to go on the 1940 trip to California. We are making plans to get together with Patricia and re-introduce her to the Silver Streak, some 73 years later.
The June 3 Peoria Journal Star Story about the Gypsy Coeds and the Silver Streak raised the general awareness, and brought a call to the Peoria Journal Star reporter who wrote the story, Scott Hilyard. Her name is Jean Turnbull Campbell. She was originally from Speer Illinois. In 1942 she accompanied her good friend Margaret Burnett, Darlene and Marge Dorgan on a short trip to Chicago in the summer of 1942. Jean lives on the North side of Peoria, recalls sleeping on the beach of Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago and wishes she would have been able to go on other trips. She celebrated her 93 birthday in August.
For more pictures go to “First Six Months”- 2012 Labor Day Parade
You will find a Slideshow of pictures of the 2012 Bradford Labor Day Parade by going to “2012 In Review”, then “2012 Labor Day Parade” then “2012 Bradford Labor Day Slideshow”.
The Silver Streak 