1947 Chevrolet Tapestries

1947 - Chevrolet, black white

1947 Chevrolet, black white

An image of the front of a with a red 1947 Chevrolet 3100 Pickup Truck title text overlay.

An image of the side of a red 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front of a brown 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Convertible with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a brown 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Convertible with a title text overlay.

An image of the rear corner of a red 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a black 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the rear corner of a green 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the side of a green 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a red 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a white 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan with a title text overlay.

An image of the front of a blue 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a blue 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a green 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the rear corner of a brown 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Convertible with a title text overlay.

An image of the front of a black 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a black 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan with a title text overlay.

An image of the rear corner of a black 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a gray 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster Business Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front of a red 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe with a title text overlay.

An image of the front corner of a black 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan with a title text overlay.

An image of the side of a black 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan with a title text overlay.

1947 - Chevrolet, black white - 02

1947 - Chevrolet, black white - 02

On Saturday, November 22, 1947, a war-surplus shop called Chubby & Tubby at 3333 Rainier Avenue S. held its Grand Opening in Seattle. The business -- which is initially based in a set of metal military Quonset huts on a corner lot (formerly site of a Signal gas station) in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood -- had actually been open for about five weeks. But it seems that the two rotund owners -- Woodrow ("Woody") "Tubby" Auge (d. 1989) and Irvin "Chubby" Frese (d. 1997) -- still had a few organizational wrinkles to iron out before making things official: In fact for those first five start-up weeks the company was actually called "Tubby & Chubby."

1947 - Chevrolet

a classic cruiser

A classic cruiser

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