the time I went to the golden age truck museum-1/1
I go to a truck museum in danbury,CT they don't build them like they use to bild them
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Roadside Discoveries: The Golden Age of Trucking Museum; A Great Place to Discover Classic Trucks.
Just a short 30 minute drive from the suburbs of Hartford, I discovered a rather interesting and delightful place. The Golden Age of Trucking Museum isn’t anything that you might expect; it’s not located in a field in the middle of nowhere nor is it is located in a dilapidated barn. It’s not dirty, grungy, or smelly. The museum is a place to bring your whole family on a journey of discovery. Learn about the leviathans that used to prowl the streets and highways of this country, along with re-discovering your own love for the big trucks you remember when you were young. The Golden Age of Trucking Museum is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1998 by the late Richard Guerrera and his wife Francis while they resided in the bucolic town of Middlebury, Connecticut. Richard owned a very successful trucking company located in the neighboring town of Naugatuck with a fleet of trucks that grew to over 120 units operating all over the country. This spawned an interest in collecting and restoring antique trucks. Over a number of years he would take the vehicles he collected and show them at national truck shows or offer them to be used in local events. When his collection approached the 20 pristine examples he collected and restored during this period, he wanted to have a place where he could showcase them in one location, so the Golden Age of Trucking Museum was incorporated in 1998, with a mission statement that reads, “To educate the public, and to preserve and exhibit the history of American truck transportation with a special emphasis on the 1950’s Golden Age of Trucking.”
The property in which the museum now resides was purchased by Guerrera in July of 1998, when he began the long process of getting town approval for the site usage. Shortly afterwards, Guerrera was diagnosed with cancer and it was up to his wife Frances along with the newly created board of directors to see the project through. Guerrera was transported to the future museum site in an ambulance in June of 1999 to attend an unofficial groundbreaking featuring five of his antique trucks along with his family and close friends. His fight with cancer ended a month later. However, his dream never died, and a new 32,000 square foot facility was erected with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony taking place on September 23, 2002.
