Our previous column, on March 23, featured the Gig Harbor Now and Then Historical Location of Mystery No. 1. Several readers posted guesses and positive identifications to the Gig Harbor Now Facebook page. Almost all of them were correct, beginning with the very first one, by Nick Spadoni. The Location of Mystery No. 1 is the side parking lot of Fitzgerald Ford on Pt. Fosdick Drive.
The Now photo shows the second-growth forest behind the parking lot has been replaced by the Gig Harbor Fred Meyer store.
The parking lot the Spadoni Brothers paved for Fitzgerald Ford has been replaced by new pavement that is now part street and part parking lot for the store.
Shifting subjects
The topic of today’s essay is trucks. Not pickup trucks, but big, commercial trucks. Diesel, multi-axle, drop-axle, tall, wide, long and very heavy trucks.
Now that 99% of the readers have exited this page, it’s just you and me. So, let me ask you, one-on-one: Did you ever have even the most fleeting curiosity over whether or not you could jump into one of those big diesel trucks and drive it?…