1945 Nash Motors Ad, "When You Meet Again"
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Artifact Overview
Even before World War II veterans returned home, car companies encouraged them to dream about the future -- a future that included an automobile. This Nash Motors ad depicts that veteran, "Home, at last with the wind and the stars and the girl and the car [he has] been longing for."
Artifact Details
Artifact
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Date Made
30 April 1945
Subject Date
1945
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
91.0.178.1588
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 10.75 in
Width: 7.5 in
Inscriptions
The text reads, in part:
It will be you again, / just you, together again ... / And your heart beats fast for now you know / there's nothing ahead but the open road and / the far-off places where a blue sky rolls to the / horizon's edges.
Though here at Nash our entire effort has been devoted / to production for war...we believe / we can look ahead now, think ahead now, to / the time when we'll be building cars again... / In this way Nash will contribute the jobs, the opportunities, the / futures that will help insure the strong, the / growing, the prosperous America we own / to those who now work and fight to preserve it.
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