The picture and article have been added to the 1941 Trip folder! The article and picture were procured from the newspaper archives at the New Orleans Public Library.
Thanks to Stan Hoekstra of the Space City T’s, Model T Club of greater Houston. Stan visited the website and remembered that in 1998 Zola Dailey Shepherd was invited to come to one of the Model T Club meetings to talk about her trip in the Silver Streak. He interviewed her and published the article in their August 1998 Newsletter. He forwarded me a copy of the newsletter which is now included under the 1941 trip. Thanks so much Stan!
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 Silver Streak 