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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
Illustration by Tad Burness.
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I see that the photo that I randomly chose features a Scripps-Booth automobile.
As you might guess, Mr Scripps is local to me and his former mansion is about 2 miles from my house.
Among his other endeavors he entered into the automobile business with Mr Booth.
The cars had many advanced features and appealed to movie stars and other elite rollers like the King of Spain.
Groucho Marx was a Scripps-Booth owner and was fascinated by the automatic push button door opener, saying it was "sheer magic". That was the feature that sold him on the car.
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