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2012 & 2013 in Review
The Silver Streak returns to Illinois
Silver Streak families get together- 2012
Rosemary Moran’s Family
Ruby McDonald’s Family
Helen Fuertges’s Family
Regina Fennell’s Family Photo 1
Regina Fennell’s Family Photo #2
Regina Fennell’s Family Photo #3
Winnie Swearingen’s Family
Rosemary Moran’s Family
Silver Streak Leaves Portland
Gypsy Coeds Looking at Pictures
Silver Streak Arrives back in Illinois
The Transaction captured via e-mail string
Meeting with Bill Ford-CEO of Ford Motor Company May 2012
Bill Ford Slideshow- Bradley University May 2012
Group Photo With Bill Ford CEO Ford Motor Co, May 2012
Up Close and Personal with Bill Ford and The Gypsy Coeds
Bill Ford Meeting At Bradley-Photo
Meeting Bill Ford-CEO Ford Motor Co, May 2012-Video
Duryea Days Car Show
Duryea Days Slide Show
2012 Bradford Labor Day Parade
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2012 Bradford Labor Day Slide Show
See you at the 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
Darlene Dorgan 1938
Darlene Dorgan Bjorkman 1983
Darlene’s Obituary
Darlene Dorgan Bjorkman-Find A Grave
Anne Holland
Anne Holland 1938
Anne Holland 1938
Ann Holland 1939
Anne Holland Obituary
Anne E Holland – Find A Grave
Eleanor Butte
Eleanor Butte 1933
Eleanor Butte – Life after being a Gypsy Coed
Eleanor Butte Obituary
Eleanor Butte – Find A Grave
Ruby McDonald
Ruby McDonald 1933
Ruby McDonald memory
Ruby McDonald Memory 2
Ruby McDonald – Obituary
Ruby McDonald Nutter – Find A Grave
Helen Fuertges
Helen Fuertges Hickey 1934
Helen Fuertges Hickey 2012
“My Trip”: Helen Fuertges Hickey Memories
Helen Fuertges Hickey – Find A Grave
Clare Breen
Clare Breen in 1934
Clare Breen – Family comment
Clare Breen Obituary
Clare Been Russell – Find A Grave
Margaret Burnett
Margaret Burnett-Gypsy Coed 1941 & 1942
Margaret Burnett – Obituary
Margaret Burnett Rowlett – Find A Grave
Rosemary Moran
Rosemary Moran 1936
Rosemary Moran Randolph Obit
Rosemary Moran Randolph – Find A Grave
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
Winnie Swearingen – 1936
Winnie Swearingen Hays 2012
Winnie Swearingen Hays 2012
Winnie Swearingen- University of Illinois
Marge Dorgan
Marge Dorgan 1938
Marjorie Dorgan – Find A Grave
Ruth Gustafson
Ruth Gustafson 1940
Ruth Gustafson 1936
Ruth Gustafson- Obituary
Zola Dailey
Zola Daily Gypsy Coed, 1941 & 1942
Zola Dailey thru her daughter & Zola’s Obituary
Zola Dailey
Zola Daily Shepherd – Find A Grave
Harriet Fisher
Harriet Fisher 1935
Harriet Fisher Hooker 1982
Harriet Fisher-Obituary
Harriet Fisher Hooker – Find A Grave
Jean Turnbull
Jean Turnbull-1941
Muriel Cunningham
Muriel Cunningham – Gypsy Coed, 1941
Muriel Cunningham Obituary
Muriel Cunningham Hall – Find A Grave
Patricia Moffett
Patricia Moffett-Gypsy Coed, 1940
Patricia Moffett Bjorling – Obituary
Patricia Moffett Bjorling – Poem recited at Graveside Service
Patricia Moffett Bjorling – Find A Grave
Olive Bell
Olive Bell Ferrie Obituary
Olive Bell Ferrie – Find A Grave
Verna Dorgan
Verna Dorgan Obituary- Died September 5, 1987
Verna Dorgan – Find A Grave
Kathleen Moran
Kathleen Moran Picture
Kathleen Moran Lawrence Obituary
Kathleen Moran Lawrence – Find A Grave
The Trips
1934 Trip-Wisconsin
1936 Trip- Wisconsin & Michigan
Ruth Gustafson Pictures from the 1936 Trip
Peoria Newspaper Picture from 1936 Trip
1937 Trip-Canada
1937 Trip to Canada-On the road in Detroit
1937 Trip to Canada- On the Road
1937 Trip to Canada- Dionne Quintuplets
1937 Trip to Canada-Travel Log
1938 Trip-Detroit
1938 Trip to Detroit- Signed Photo with Henry Ford
1938 Trip to Detroit- Picture with Henry Ford from Ford Archives
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
1942 Trip Story in Bradford Republican
1942 Trip Newspaper story from the Kalamazoo Michigan Gazette
The Reunions
Bud McKirgan’s article of the pending reunion
1972 Gypsy Coed Reunion- Jumers Castle Lodge, Peoria IL
Only Picture from 1972 Gypsy Coed Reunion, Jumers Castle Lodge, Peoria Illinois
1982 Gypsy Coed Reunion
1982 Reunion-The Silver Streak
1982 Reunion Parade Crowd
1982 Gypsy Coed Reunion
The 1982 Reunion Story-Peoria Journal Star
1987 Gypsy Coed Reunion
Silver Streak’s Previous Bradford Parade
1941 Trip Photo- Location Unknown
1941 Gypsy Coed Trip in Silver Streak, Location of Picture unknown
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