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37 UPS jet UPS has been moving freight since the advent of the Ford Model T. Today the company's largest hub in Louisville handles 250 arriving and departing planes per typical day, sorts 1.5 million packages, has 155 miles of conveyor belts and employs 20,000 workers. 38 Model T Ford The Ford Motor Co. has always been associated with Louisville. The last Ford Model T to be built here is pictured coming off the line at the old Southwestern Parkway plant on June 3, 1927. "Last Model T Ford leaves assembly line, Louisville, Kentucky, 1927." P_00100, R. G. Potter Collection, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. 39 Kentucky Derby mint julep glass The owner of the Kentucky Derby winner carts away a $5,000 gold trophy, but since 1938, thousands of Derby fans have taken home their own trophies — treating themselves to a refreshing mint julep, then adding that year's souvenir glass (with the names of all the winners) to their collection. 40 Freddy Farm Bureau, Kentucky State Fair Eighteen feet from head to toe (and wearing size 31 shoes), Freddy has been a fxture at the fair — which has called Louisville home for the last 106 years — since the event moved to the Kentucky Exposition Center in 1956. 41 Frankfort Avenue water trough Mule-powered streetcars frst operated downtown in 1844; by the 1870s, they were carrying passengers out Frankfort Avenue, catching a bit of refreshment after climbing the Clifton hill to Vernon Avenue. The mules were replaced by electricity around the turn of the century. 42 Hadley Pottery Mary Alice Hadley, then 28, designed and painted her frst unglazed greenware pieces in her St. James Court home in 1939, taking them to a neighborhood pottery frm for heavy glazing. Six years later, high demand for her dinnerware resulted in the opening of her own pottery business on Butchertown's Story Avenue, where today it still handles orders from across the country. 43 Toonerville Trolley cartoon Louisville-born cartoonist Fontaine Fox set his nationally syndicated cartoon strip "Toonerville Folks" (1908-'55) on the old and rickety Brook Street trolley line. Characters included trolley driver Skipper, the Physically Powerful Katrinka, Little Woo-Woo and Eppie Hogg (the fattest lady in three counties). Popular panels were printed as greeting cards. 42 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 6.13