Today I met with Mr. Russell Warren of Bremerton WA. He is the son of Mr. Pop Warren now deceased. Pop Warren was many things during his working life and Studebakers were part of that. So in as few words as I can this is Pop Warren's Studebaker story: 1933-1938 Pop's Studebaker Garage was the Bremerton WA authorized Studebaker dealer. Prior to 1933 Pop Warren started a storage service in what had been Mann Buick Bld. in downtown Bremerton for cars during the winter. As it happens from time to time owners would fail to pay the storage and lose the car. Pop Warren then began to rent or sell these forfeited cars, which brought him into the car business. He later moved Pop's Garage to Burwell and Callow in what is now called the Charleston area of West Bremerton. During these years when new cars were hard to get this far west Pop Warren would load one or two large used cars (various makes) with drivers and drive cross country to South Bend and sell the used cars. Taking delivery of as many new Studebakers as they could, they would caravan back to Bremerton. At this time a new car which was broken-in actual sold for more money than a new '0' mile car. The drivers were paid as little as $10 for their work and Pop Warren paid the other expenses. Pop Warren maintained personal connection with the Studebaker factory via contacts made during his dealership years. Consequently he and his family drove or flew (via Chicago) to South Bend several times, were, as his son recalls, they toured the plant and even visited the executive dinning room; then would arrive at the end of the production line in time to drive away in their new car. Subsequently these cars were driven home and later sold through his independent garage just in time to make the trip again. In about 1959 Pop Warren became an unofficial dealer for Studebaker working in essence as a satellite for a South Tacoma Dealership, selling new Studebakers and used cars in the Bremerton area from the Tacoma dealership inventory. The last Studebaker Pop Warren acquired was light metallic green 1963 Cruiser with all the power/performance option available. Pop's son Russell made up this order and it was used as he called it a "demonstrator". At the end of the model year Russell Warren purchased the car for himself and drove it until it was given to one of his daughters. The last location of Pop's Garage was near the west end of Wycoff again in the Charleston area of Bremerton in a building that had once been the Charleston City Hall and Fire Hall No.2 after Bremerton and Charleston merged. Russell Warren is a former SDC member from his days in Southern California when he still owned the Cruiser. The photo above is of the last Studebaker sign from Pop's Garage, which Russell has hanging in his garage. Dave Lust, May 2011