2014: IRVIN WALKER COMES TO TOWN IN HIS 1920 MODEL-T

(05/01/2026)

2011 - 81-year-old Big Bend resident Irvin Walker, now deceased, had to come to Grantsville to pick-up a few things at the drug store. He fired up his wheels to make the trip, a newly acquired 1930 Model-T Ford. It is a fine looking automobile. "It really runs good, the nearest thing to an automatic in 1920," Walker said. The Model-T Ford was called a "tin lizzy" by its detractors when it came out, but it was anything but. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to middle-class America.

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