A winter tour, two familiar ladies and the Oldsmobile Sales Company

They look familiar! You might recognise these two (Friday) Ladies and their Oldsmobile. Last year, on the 20th of December, we published How to spend the days of Christmas?

We saw The Joaquin Miller Cabin - see also photograph 2. The only known - late 19th-century rustic-style log cabin built by American poet Joaquin Miller. Located in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. We imagined the two ladies hired the little log cabin to spend some quality time together – just before Christmas.

Following the publication, Ace Zenek sent us a message with some additional information about The Joaquin Miller Cabin. He told us that "an article about the cabin in June 2019 states that the National Park Service is in the beginning stages of possibly moving the cabin to another location in the park in order to move the building out of the flood plain where it is currently located. The cabin sign, which we discussed earlier, probably reads; Defacement or Injuring this Building is Contrary to Law."

But there is more!

Ace found a whole series of photogrpahs from winter trips these two ladies made. Looking at the other photogrpahs the roads to the cabin were luckily enough a lot better accessible with the Oldsmobile. About the 1920 Oldsmobile he wrote “the slanted hood louvres on the car and the large letters for "D.C." and "1920" on the license plate confirm the year of the car and differentiate it from its similar 1921 siblings.”

Oldsmobile Sales Company

But when we were looking at the pictures, we noticed these two ladies drive different cars! How wonderful! Also take a look at photo 4 and the following. Ace told us that, “this photo was taken as a part of an advertising campaign for the Oldsmobile Sales Company. This business was located at 1016-1018 Connecticut Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. The president was Matthew T. Pollock, and the treasurer was Michael J. Keane. There was also a separate Service Station at 21st and Virginia Avenues. The firm would later move to 1835-37 14th Street N.W. and was managed by Edward N. Bowman. It appears to have gone out of business by 1925. The company began about 1914 selling both Oakland and Oldsmobile cars, and then switching over to only Oldsmobile automobiles about 1919.”

This leaves us with the question, who are these two beautiful ladies? Maybe they have somehow a connection with the Oldsmobile Sales Company...

Will this story continue…?