Harry J. Fox Motor Co., Ft. Worth, TX.
Roesch Motors, DeSoto-Plymouth, Elmhurst, IL.
Lagrew Motors, DeSoto-Plymouth, Lexington, KY.
Wagstaff Motor Co., DeSoto-Plymouth, Atlanta, GA.
John Malasky Inc., DeSoto-Plymouth, Hudson, NY.
Periat and Sons, DeSoto-Plymouth, San Mateo, CA.
Howard Motors, DeSoto-Plymouth, New Orleans, LA.
McNeil-Stanley Inc., DeSoto-Plymouth, Los Angeles, CA.
Wagstaff Motor Co., DeSoto-Plymouth, Atlanta, GA.
George Byers Sons, Plymouth-DeSoto, Columbus, OH.
Nice, makes me wish I could get in the wayback machine and hit those used car lots .
-Nate
A spatz wearing salesman.
Harry Fox looks proud, with good reason. The ’55 DeSoto was Exner’s masterpiece. He should have quit while he was ahead!
I still love the 55 models, probably because my grandma drove one from around the time I was born until she traded it after the starter went out in 1967 when I was about 8 years old. A Firedome sedan, 2 tone pink and white!
So used to saying Chrysler Plymouth. Back then it was also Desoto Plymouth.
In Canada, DeSoto was dualed with Dodge from what I saw in these photos posted on Forwardlook.net.
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=34008
“Mrs U S Savings Bonds”.. Wonder how long she dove that “DeSoto”?
I pride myself 😀 on my knowledge of California geography and the names of even obscure towns, so the location of Periat and Sons DeSoto Plymouth in Hillsdale caused me to think. Hillsdale is in fact a district within the city of San Mateo, best know locally for a huge shopping mall, which still exists. So technically the business was in San Mateo (an incorporated city since the late 19th century). I did find a nice photo from 1967, by which time it had become a Plymouth, Chrysler, Imperial and Dodge Trucks dealership … no Dodge cars. There’s a quite new looking six story financial building at that location now.
Ah, nice. I’ll update that info.
Here’s a list of Desoto dealerships.
The building still stands for the New Orleans Desoto dealership on 901 St Charles Ave, New Orleans as shown above.
https://desoto.org/dealers/
Tell them “Groucho sent you”!!!