George Schade’s Runabout automobile is pictured above, in front of the Kuebeler-Schade home on Tiffin Avenue in the very early 1900s. The Runabout was manufactured by the Sandusky Automobile Company. The Courier was another model made in Sandusky .
A longtime city commissioner in Sandusky , George Schade was one of the first automobile owners in Sandusky . Mr. Schade was the husband of Anna Kuebeler, daughter of Jacob Kuebeler, a pioneer in the brewing industry.
The Sandusky Automobile Company, founded by James J. Hinde, was only in business for a few years in the first decade of the twentieth century. To read more about the early automobile age in Sandusky , see chapter 18 of the book Sandusky's Yesterdays, by Charles E. Frohman.