OFF TOPIC...........or is it?

My Florida license plate was scheduled for renewal. I wanted to get a different personalized plate to honor my Mom & Dad so instead of going online to renew my old personalized plate, 9BAWL, I opted to go to the Tag Office to see what was available. Florida has more than 70 specialty plates in addition to the 2 standard plates.

There are certain limitations to the number of characters you can use. Some of the specialty plates have a left-side logo for such things as the USMC insignia, US ARMY, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, etc. This style of plate can only accommodate 5 characters. Another style of specialty plate has a centered logo which can accommodate up to 6 characters with one or two spaces. The standard plates can accommodate up to 7 characters or 6 characters with one or two spaces.

Anyway, the clerk was kind enough to take the time to go through all of the different options that were available to me, and I finally decided that I could use "DEC 6 41" with two spaces. That was the day that Mom & Dad got married.

Now, it was time to choose which specialty plate would be appropriate. A sample plate of each of the different designs is mounted on a 20' wall behind the counter. The clerk waited patiently as I browsed through all of the samples. The Heart logo for medical research? No! The Apple logo for teachers? No. The Manatee logo for "Save the Manatee"? No. I've already used the Everglades logo, the Challenger logo and the Orlando Magic logo. Those were out. I was about ready to give up. The only thing I hadn't considered were the two standard Florida plates that were mounted in the bottom corner at the very end of the wall. As I was turning to go back to the beginning, I glanced at the standard plates and I stopped dead in my tracks. There it was! The perfect plate to honor Mom & Dad which also gave recognition for something I have enjoyed for more than 5 decades.

Chris

 

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Cool!!

Hopefully they weren't planning to go to Hawaii for their honeymoon.

 

It wouldn't have made any difference. There weren't too many SST's around in those days.

Chris

 

Good point!

 

That's neat. We recently got a new car. I wanted to get something different that the standard plate. We decided on this to honor my father in law.

He loved eagles. We get the plate in the mail and it has the month and year of my birthday in issued numbers. Something for me too, I guess.

 

One thing I never mentioned @paddyman98 was the fact that my Dad had been offered a job repairing the various military airfields in Hawaii in 1940. I guess it was a good thing that he turned down the offer.

Chris