By Mike Johnson
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone were buddies.
Imagine these three titans lounging under a banyan tree, brainstorming ideas.
This occurred in Ft Myers, Florida in the 1920’s onward.
Thomas Edison’s winter home and laboratory is located there and is now a museum.
In 1927, the three friends formed a company to invent a new source of rubber that did not depend on foreign sources.
Ford liked the area – and the friendship – so much that he purchased a home next door to Edison’s.
That home is also part of the Edison Museum estate.
Today, you can walk in their footsteps, stand in their laboratory, look into Ford's garage, sit under the banyan tree and imagine yourself conversing with these famous inventors.
Properties, possessions and experiences are automatically more valuable when noteworthy people have touched them.
Then there are the things we collect because they were once owned by people less noteworthy.
Like our father.
Our spouse.
Our children.
These items help us reimagine magical times with them.
This makes those items priceless.
I’ve owned Ford vehicles.
I’ve owned light bulbs.
I’ve owned Firestone tires.
I also lived in the Ft Myers area 20 years, visiting the museum several times.
This gives me a direct connection to these famous inventors.
It makes me smile.
But it also implants an arrogant little thought.
Perhaps one day, I’ll be worthy of someone wanting something that is common to me, just because I had spent time with it first.
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