The Story
This is where you will find newspaper and magazine accounts of the adventures of the Gypsy Coeds.
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- News
- 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
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