Some of you may recall that some years ago, Bill Ruger's grandson auctioned off the content's of grampa's rolltop desk from the Southport factory. The contents were split into, I think, three lots and I ended up buying two of them. One of the items in one lot was a developed roll of B&W film in a continuous strip rolled up in a little ivory colored celluloid container. I had a flatbed scanner at the time and scanned a few of the images, and I just recently happened upon a folder on my PC that had 5 images from that strip of film. They seem to be vacation photos from a trip to San Francisco and I date them to 1950 based on one pic that has a theatre marquee advertising the movie, "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel (in Technicolor) which google says came out in 1950.
Anyway, I thought this pic would be of the most interest to the Ruger collector crowd, showing his CT vanity license plate "GUNS":
I reckon the point of the pic was to show the tops of the suspension bridge towers obscured by low clouds or fog.
Maybe he saw Annie Get Your Gun here on this trip and got jazzed up for cowboy guns and went back home all inspired to design the Single Six which came out in 1953.
Anyway, I thought this pic would be of the most interest to the Ruger collector crowd, showing his CT vanity license plate "GUNS":
I reckon the point of the pic was to show the tops of the suspension bridge towers obscured by low clouds or fog.
Maybe he saw Annie Get Your Gun here on this trip and got jazzed up for cowboy guns and went back home all inspired to design the Single Six which came out in 1953.