The annual Chicago Auto Show takes place at McCormick Place February 8th through 17th this year. I used to love going to this show. I took the photograph above of my mother Mary and father Nelson as we were walking back to our car after attending that show back in 1962, when I was 9 years old. My father was a dentist, practicing in the South Side Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago, and one of his patients was Jim Miller of Jim Miller Pontiac, and so he always got free passes. I remember we looked at an XKE Jaguar back then and wondered who in the world could possibly afford to pay $6,000 for it? How times have changed. I even remember taking the Greyhound bus home from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa during my freshman year in college just to attend the auto show. The amazing thing is that I have never been a car person, not then and not now. But if I was still living in Chicago, I think I would probably make sure to attend, just for old times' sake. Perhaps they might still have some $6,000 Jaguars on display.
