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Historical April–May 2014 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Easter Sunday April 20, 2014, will mark the 53rd Annual Automobile Show of the Horseless Carriage Club of St. Louis.
The show is held on the upper parking lot of the Muny Opera in Forest Park. Dozens of classic cars will be displayed.
The 2013 Easter Show had 107 Cars pre-registered for Judging, 70 Cars for Display, with about 216 Club Cars from 16 different Clubs.
The Horseless Carriage Club has been active in St. Louis since 1944. Their newsletter featured the 1950 auto show at the Winter Garden on DeBaliviere. Their colorful website is: www.hccmo.com.
Following the parade of transportation at the World’s Fair, the first actual Auto Show in St. Louis was held in 1907 at the old Winter Garden Building at 500 DeBaliviere, formerly the site of the 1904 Jai Alai competition in the St. Louis World’s Fair and Olympic Games, before becoming a popular ice skating venue.
In 1907, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted that a parade from downtown preceded the “society event” with an “artistic background for the throngs of handsomely gowned women whose presence is expected…To protect these gowns, huge tarpaulins have been spread over the floor… no small number of St. Louis women own machines and drive them.” There were at least two auto manufacturing plants on DeBaliviere: the “Success Auto Buggy” and the “Darby Motor Car,” which was found at the website http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/ americanautomobiles6.htm. More information about the early days of automobiles specifically in St. Louis can also be seen in the History Museum’s new STL250 Exhibit.
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Historic Darby Motor Car advertisement reproduced as illustration. Date not separately established.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April–May 2014.
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