Canton Classic Car Museum

Canton Classic Cars

Finding Where's Waldo? and a 1937 Cord in the same place wouldn't make sense anywhere else but the Canton Classic Car Museum.

Currently, the museum displays 45 automobiles, including a 1942 Lincoln Cabriolet convertible and the only known 1937 Hudson hearse, which was one of three the company built. Executive Director ofthe museum Char Lautzenheiser said the hearse was a beautifully carved coach that reminds her that cars are more like  "rolling pieces of art."

The museum features an array of items, arranged in different themes. Patrons can  walk into yhe past, viewing clothing, shoes and hats of yesteryear and also explore the history of Canton or find Asian artifacts.

"I'd say  we are the best memorabilia and nostalgia museum in the state," Lautzenheiser said.

Getting customers to leave happy hasn't been hard for for Lautzenheiser-the setup of the museum calls good memories to mind and some laughs for the good-humored.

History buffs may recall that even though hype about Route 66 filtered into songs, movies, documentaries and inspired many road trips, the Old Lincoln Highway that runs through Canton was the first national completed coast to coast highway in the United States in 1915. Such a high influx of traffic traveling down the highway nearly a century ago turned Canton , Ohio into "Little Chicago" and generated a rich history for the city that the museum captures.

View us on the web at www.cantonclassiccar.org