Charlie Diederich was born in 1895. He
did not want to be a farmer
like his father. He loved cars and made a career of buying and selling
them. His sister Theresia was county supervisor of schools and wanted
a car to travel
between the schools. She went to the bank to arrange a $200 loan for a
car, but the
bank refused it. The bankers told her they would loan the money if she
wanted to buy
a cow, but they didn't believe in automobiles!
Charlie died in 1993 so is not here to identify these autos,
but they were probably manufactured the year the picture
was taken. Charlie would travel to Detroit and drive the
cars to
Wisconsin for sale at his dealership there.
