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The Choke Rod preserving and restoring the Model A Ford since 1956 Volume 54, Issue 12 MAFCA Certifi cate of Merit 2005 through 2010 December 2010 San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Model A Ford Club of America Photo by Steve Owsley Just another day with a Model A preparing for the Columbus Day Parade Upcoming Tours Barrango Showroom Tour - postponed until December 2011 Sunday December 12 - Christmas Banquet - Basque Cultural Center, SSF Sunday January 30, 2011 - President’s Brunch - Harding Park Golf Course Saturday March 5, 2011 - Annual benefit Crab Feed at the Monte Cristo Club The Choke Rod page 2 Volume 54, Issue 12 www.sfmodelaclub.org December 2010 Offi cial Publication of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter President’s Message MAFCA The 2011 offi cers election results are in. I want OFFICERS to thank all of you who agreed to serve another PRESIDENT year. I also want to congratulate and commend Barry Kinney our Tour Leaders for their hard work. Thanks to you we had good times and great tours in 2010. VICE PRESIDENTS Thanks to all of our members for their participation Tom Escher and contributions over the years. Gunard Mahl We have a lot to be proud of. Our Club is more than fi fty years old. We Greg Martinez are the oldest club in northern California. We started as a MARC Club in the early fi fties and became a MAFCA Club around 1956. We are the SECRETARY only Club in our area to host a National MAFCA Meet. We have had Joan Peterson for six years running an award winning newsletter, The Choke Rod. We sponsored an outstanding Car Show on Fisherman’s Wharf that put TREASURER us on the map and we now sponsor a charity crab feed that benefi ts Steve Owsley the Make-A-Wish Foundation. I am sure that next year will be another outstanding year with just as many outstanding tours and events, and PAST PRESIDENT will add to the history and tradition of the Model A Ford Club, San Gary Barrango Francisco Bay Area Chapter. The Choke Rod is published once each month by the San Francisco I will see you at the Christmas Banquet Sunday December 12 at the Bay Area Chapter of the Model Basque Cultural Center. A Ford Club of America. It is mailed free to each member in Merry Christmas. good standing and mailed to other antique car clubs in exchange for their publications. The Choke Rod takes no responsibility for Barry Kinney the accuracy of materials, dates, places, prices, etc of its contents. Permission to reproduce is hereby granted provided credit is given to The San Francisco Model “A” Ford Club encourages membership in MAFCA, The Choke Rod. The Choke Rod the National Model “A” Ford Club. Benefi ts include an excellent bi-monthly welcomes articles, art work, ideas, publication, The Restorer, providing technical information and free liability suggestions, etc. insurance when participating in Club Events. Please submit any and all MAFCA material to the editor by the last Model A Ford Club of America, Inc. Monday of each month. Articles 250 South Cypress Street and photos may be submitted La Habra CA 90631 to: [email protected] or mailed www.mafca.com to Walter Caplan at 157 Warren 562-697-2712 Drive, San Francisco, CA 94131. MAFCA dues are $40 per year. Dues for new members may be paid at any time. TOUR CHAIR: Steve Pedone Dues paid between November 1 and December 31 are valid for the remainder of EDITORS: Walter Caplan the year paid plus the following year. Along with your check send in your name, Scott Williams spouse’s name and complete address. An optional $10 initiation fee includes FASHION EDITOR: Rachelle Marquez a club pin, decal, badge, windshield card and a back issue of “The Restorer” TECH EDITOR: Steve Owsley magazine. If you use Mastercard or Visa, include the expiration date and your MEMBERSHIP: Walter Caplan signature. Membership includes a subscription to The Restorer. The Choke Rod page 3 Volume 54, Issue 12 www.sfmodelaclub.org December 2010 Christmas Banquet President’s Brunch Sunday December 12 Sunday January 30 Basque Cultural Center This year, our annual President’s Brunch will be held January 30 at the Clubhouse of the Harding Park Golf 6 PM Cocktails, 7 PM Dinner at the Basque Course, located at Lake Merced in San Francisco. Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Last Members who wish to tour with their Model A’s will minute changes and reservations can be made by meet at 9:45 am at the Pacifi c Rod and Gun Club calling Walter Caplan at (415) 753-3280 up to the parking lot and will depart at 10:15 am. We will begin day before the party. The address of the Basque with a short yet interesting drive tour and then on to Cultural Center is 599 Railroad Avenue, South the Harding Park Clubhouse. Brunch will be served San Francisco 94080. at 11 am. Tour Leader: Barry Kinney RSVP at 415-282-2789 Directions: Please RSVP Barry by Friday January 21 Basque Cultural Center From Highway 280: so we can have an accurate count for brunch. Take Highway 280 north to South San Francisco, and take the Avalon Drive Exit. Continue to go straight on Harding Park Golf Course Junipero Serra Blvd. Take a right on Westborough 99 Harding Road Blvd., and then a right on El Camino Real. Take a left San Francisco, CA 94132 on Orange Blvd, and right on Railroad Ave. Continue down to 599 and make a right into our parking lot. If your coming from the City take Highway 280 South. From Highway 280, take the Westborough Exit, and follow the same directions as above after Westborough Blvd. at the Monte Cristo Club Basque Cultural Center From Highway 101: From the South, take Highway 101 north to South San Saturday March 5 Francisco, and take the Grand Avenue Exit. Right on Doors open at 5 pm East Grand Avenue, then Left on Grand Avenue. Take Dinner Service begins 6:30 pm a left on Magnolia and drive two blocks and cross Raffl e - 50/50 Raffl e - No Host Bar Railroad Ave, into our parking lot. LIVE MUSIC If you’re coming from the City, take Highway 101 antipasto, salad, pasta, crab, French bread & butter, South and take the Grand Avenue Exit in South San dessert Francisco. Continue on Grand Avenue. Take a left on Magnolia and drive two blocks and cross Railroad Ave, into the Basque Cultural Center parking lot. Birthdays & Anniversaries Donald Parsons December 2 David Berelson December 6 Melanie Marie Patsel December 9 Steve Karr December 14 Kathy Pedone December 14 Frank O’Brien December 18 Bill Tempone December 19 Bob Faber December 24 Marilyn Yuhas December 30 Paul DeMartini December 31 John FB Zuffi December 31 Steve Owsley & Jack Green December 17 The Choke Rod page 4 Volume 54, Issue 12 www.sfmodelaclub.org December 2010 Sweater Girls of the Late 30’s 1937 had a lasting impact on our ideas about 20th century Mae West wasn’t the only fi lm star to gain fame and fortune womanhood. from her breasts. A pretty teenage blonde in a close-fi tting cashmere sweater appeared Born in Connecticut in in a new fi lm They Won’t 1907, Katherine Hepburn Forget and became a major was one of Hollywood’s sensation, setting off another most unique and endearing revolution in bra design. personalities. Her career as Lana Turner was the original a Hollywood leading lady Sweater Girl. According spanned seven decades; to movie legend she was she starred in more than discovered in a café at fi fteen 50 quality fi lms and won and began working on the fi lm a record four Oscars for that was to make her name. Best Actress. She always She played the small role of spoke her mind and had her a murdered schoolgirl. It was own ideas about “ladylike” her close-fi tting sweater that behavior. As a consequence, Hepburn’s career suffered its caught the eye of the critics, fair share of ups and downs. which led to a glowing career After a sensational debut in Hollywood, stories began to leak of over 50 fi lms. She soon out of her unconventional behavior off-screen and her refusal became one of the U.S. forces favorite pin up girls, pictured to play the Hollywood game, always wearing slacks, refusing in her baby blue cashmere sweater. She was quoted as to wear make-up, never posing for pictures for the paparazzi, saying, “I made my fi rst movie without ever considering that and always refusing to give interviews or sign autographs. my walk-on role would be anything more than a one-time Instead of applauding her independence, audiences were job.” shocked and soon deserted her. From 1935 to 1938 she had With eveningwear fashion taking on the role of infl uencing just two hits and was labeled “box offi ce poison.” the remake of the bra, daywear followed in its footsteps with Hepburn responded with women wearing close-fi tting tops in cashmere, crepe de characteristic verve and Chine and jersey silks to complement their tweed suits and returned to New York to hip-hugging skirts. Manufacturers used circular stitching to resume her acting career give breasts the required shape and deemed this bra the on Broadway, starring Stitched Bra. The Sweater Girls infl uenced fashion for 20 in the smash hit The years. Philadelphia Story. She Women in the 1930’s had the opposite problem from their bought the fi lm rights and counterparts in the 1920’s who had agonized over their returned to Hollywood breasts being too large.