Last Christmas my wife started a collection for me of ceramic village homes. If you’ve read my blog for any period of time or know me personally, you’ll learn pretty quickly that I am a small town boy at heart and a total Corvette nut. These little ceramic villages do a remarkable job of bringing a bit of that small town back into our home and are something I truly treasure. Our plan is to by one or two each year.
Today, while we were out shopping I purchased another for our collection and it will probably go down as my all time favorite. The McKenzie’s Automotive Chevrolet Dealership really brings back a piece of home for me. It is a ceramic replica of GM Dealership with a ’63 Corvette inside. It reminds me a lot of the Chevrolet dealership that we had in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Trout Chevrolet Oldsmobile. The owner also had a spectacular Blue ’63 Corvette that he regularly drove to and from the dealership and parked it to the left of the show room. I’d often make a detour by Trout Chevrolet when cruising downtown just to see that ’63 Corvette.
The dealership has long been replaced with a cookie cutter GM Dealership and has been replaced with a parking lot. Good memories of fun times will live on though. I don’t imagine a day when I’ll move back to Estevan, as life has been incredible to me State side, but at least that’s the good things about memories you never move away from them.
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