REO is part of the group, REO Speedwagon isn't it?! One of my favorite groups. Grinning, Cathy > [Original Message] > From: Richard Emlin Reed <remlinr@tampabay.rr.com> > To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> > Date: 8/28/2007 10:57:44 PM > Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] tuesday PM memo > > Yes, REO was the monogram of Ransom Eli Olds, founder of the Olds Motor > Vehicle Company. I once owned a 1930 Reo Flying Cloud sedan. It had quarter > inch steel fenders. New, it cost $1800. That's $22,000 in today's money. I > bought it for $165 in 1937. > The Reo Speedway was a truck. It may have been other things too; but there > was a Reo Speedway truck. > Richard Emlin Reed > Wesley Chapel, FL > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Keiper" <jdkjak@webtv.net> > To: <PADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:19 PM > Subject: [PD-LIFE] tuesday PM memo > > as a child, when visiting my pa dutch grand parents in manheim, pa, on a > > sunday morning i recall my grandmother > > saying to grandfather "now dad, it's time to go fetch the machine from > > the shed"... and off to the meeting house we would go...and it was a REO > > machine. > > > > John & Joyce Keiper > >>From the "situation room", Bedford, Penna. 15522 > > at: coventry cottage > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message