High School Sweetheart
Jan 11, 2021
4 minutes
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOHN LEE
Bob Hubbard clearly remembers the night he fell in love — with a 1951 Mercury!
He and his steady, Jo, along with two other couples, were all high school students in Watertown, S.D. The Watertown High School basketball team was playing at Aberdeen, and they wanted to drive up to see the game. But Bob’s coupe wouldn’t accommodate a crowd of six.
Bob’s father owned the Chrysler-Plymouth dealership in Watertown, and “I grew up working in the shop.” His dad had just taken a 1951 Mercury four-door sedan in on trade on a new 1955 Chrysler. Bob had cleaned it up and it was on the used
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