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Please NOTICE... we have returned to Downey!

Long-time members Vicki and Mike Spearman have graciously secured a venue for our club's meeting at 24 Hour Real Estate.

Vicki, a real estate agent in Downey, has kindly offered her office’s conference room.

We invite you to join us at the next meeting to see the venue firsthand.

24 Hour Real Estate is at 8635 Florence Avenue, just west of Lakewood Blvd. The driveway to a well-lit, video-monitored parking lot is on the building's west side. From the parking lot entrance, access the second floor via elevator or stairs. The office is in the area of the elementary school where our pre-COVID meetings were held.

On October 21, 1929, Henry Ford honored his longtime friend and boyhood hero Thomas Edison with an extraordinary celebration in Dearborn, Michigan. Called Light’s Golden Jubilee, the event commemorated the 50th anniversary of Edison’s successful incandescent lamp experiment. President Herbert Hoover, Orville Wright, Marie Curie, George Eastman and Will Rogers were among the distinguished guests. The celebration also marked the dedication of Ford’s Edison Institute—the beginnings of what we know today as The Henry Ford museum and Greenfield Village.

Ford’s interest in preserving history may seem surprising for a man whose automobiles were transforming everyday life, but he believed strongly in preserving the tools, buildings and inventions that showed how ordinary Americans lived and worked. By 1929, while millions of Model A Fords were carrying families along America’s expanding roads, Ford was simultaneously preserving an earlier America that automobiles were helping to change. Today, our own efforts to restore, maintain and drive Model A Fords continue that idea in a very tangible way. We aren't simply preserving old automobiles—we're keeping a working piece of American history alive for another generation.