Wednesday, January 8, 2020

A "Great White Fleet" Ready for Your Last Ride! And Your Widow Can Follow in a Fisker!

From Ed -- 






For whatever reason, recently I've gotten interested in so-called "professional cars" that include funeral cars, hearses, flower cars, and other vehicles used by mortuaries.  You cannot make this stuff up, but this afternoon I decided to take a drive and went to Germantown, Ohio, west of Dayton.  Decided to return home on Germantown Road (Route 4) which, within the last three miles before Dayton, goes through a really deteriorated part of Dayton.  On Germantown Road is a funeral home W. E. Lusain Funeral Home (see website below).  This is a Black-owned funeral home chain that has at least three other funeral homes including one in Birmingham, Alabama.  Lusain also has a funeral home location in Cincinnati.

I am not joking but parked next to the place was their funeral fleet -- see attached photos: Two white Mercedes buses, a white Mercedes truck-like vehicle with open bed that can carry a casket in open-air fashion, another Mercedes SUV also in white, and a white electric Fisker (a funeral home that has a Fisker.......a rare car anywhere but in a Black part of town with a couple of dive bars just down the street?

I would not recommend driving in that part of Dayton, but if you do stop by the Lusian Memorial Funeral Home.  How many widows would like to be driven to the cemetery in a Fisker?

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