The Hall family’s love for the automobile business began in the early 1900’s when my great-grandfather went to work in Springfield, Illinois for the Jennings auto sales company. A.C. Hall not only loved the business from a young age, but was quite good at it, and before long he owned two small Ford agencies just outside of Springfield. He began to get restless with smaller stores and bought into a partnership to create Hall-Herschbach Ford in St. Paul, Minnesota. His wife became frustrated by the cold Minnesota winters and Henry Ford’s promise of a Ford tractor distributorship two states to the south soon had A.C. selling his interest and traveling to Detroit to work out the details with Mr. Ford. As legend has it, Mr. Hall and Mr. Ford could not come to an agreement on how to structure the tractor distributorship and after a fiery argument; both agreed they were not meant to be in business together. It was very shortly after this life changing conversation that A.C. was made aware of a Chevrolet opportunity in Milwaukee. From 1926 to 2010, Hall Chevrolet, operated by A.C.’s two sons Bob and Latham Hall and later Bob’s son Andy, was a rock in the Milwaukee business landscape.