 Good morning. We are at the Sheboygan County Historical Museum. It is the third Saturday in October, October 15th, 2011. And our theme for this month is collectors of Sheboygan County and their collections. We have a lot of interesting things in store for you as we take a look around today. We also have some questions for you. We have a few mystery items that we are wondering if you can help us to solve. One of the things is we have a picture of a place that we know that was taken in Sheboygan, but we are not quite sure of the establishment, so we're looking to see if you can help us with that. We also have a soda jack that was produced in another state, but we had a distributor in Sheboygan, and we don't know who the distributor was, so we're hoping that you can help us with some of those questions. We have a very, very nice collection of Sheboygan memorabilia businesses, so you will see a lot of different things displayed in that display. We also have an interesting selection of different types of irons through the years. We have a collection of valentines, and many of the valentines were given to a lady by her husband, and actually some classmates as she was growing up, so that's kind of interesting also. We have some Wells Fargo information, and we actually have a running display with that, so that should be interesting. We also have some toy tractors, and the toy tractors, you can get a lot of history with that because they have some that have been refurbished and some that are older. Many of the things that we have today go through much of the 20th century, so it'll be a very, very interesting display. We also have Sheboygan bar memorabilia that will be interesting to see some of the old bars and also some of the souvenirs that they handed out. And one of the things that has been requested many times is comics, and so we have a big selection also on comics. And then we have some Mark's cars from the past History 2, and we actually have an ambulance that is working, so that should be fun to see also. So enjoy the day and enjoy seeing the selections that we have. Good morning. I'm Karen Huffschild, and I'm here today at the Historical Museum to display my collection of vintage irons. I would say probably about 15 years ago I started to have an interest in antiques, and so I would go to antique stores and flea markets, and I developed an interest in old irons. When I was a young girl, my mother used to make me iron. That was my job, and my father would wear these white shirts, and my mother never had time to iron, so in those days she would sprinkle them, roll them up, put them in a plastic bag, and stick them in the freezer. And all of a sudden when it got there to be there was too many shirts in the freezer, or my father ran out of shirts, she'd say, Karen, it's time to iron. So I would have to take these shirts out of the freezer, left them on thaw, and then I would have to iron them. They were quite easy to iron because they were cold, and the iron slid or glided over them, but there was always wrinkles of galore, or the possibility that you would scorch the white shirt, and it would then be yellow. So anyway, I really hated to iron, but for some reason I became fascinated with irons. So I have an assortment of various irons from the first electrical irons, and in a display over here they talk about the American beauty iron that you could buy. Salesman actually came to your house and sold these irons, and you could put them like on almost, it wasn't a credit card, but they would bill you monthly for your payment. Then we have here, we have the old iron box, which people use to transport their irons. I particularly liked the irons that had this ball at the end. I was kind of fascinated by them. They put fuel in here, and then they would adjust the heat by turning this knob back and forth here. The thing is, a lot of times these irons would explode because they became too hot, or some of the liquid would leak, and you would end up getting them all over your clothing. But I was fascinated with this type of iron. And then as we move over here, I also found this little child's ironing board. So then I was in the process of seeking out little irons for children. Right here we have this little iron, which became a classic iron, and it actually works today. You just plug it in and can heat. This was really more of a toy iron that children would play with. And then over here I have another one that actually still works today too, where you plug it in and heat it up. So this is my display of irons. Although I hated the iron, I love to collect them. I'm Dave Martini, and I'm here today at the museum with my collection of 1950s cowboy and TV and movie cowboy items. And I've been collecting this stuff since I was a kid. Several of these items were mine as a boy. Several I bought later on for auctions and things like that. The first item here is a Lionel train set. It's called the General Frontier Gift Pack. Around 1961 or thereabouts, Civil War was a very popular subject on TV, and there was a movie called The Great Locomotive Chase with Fess Parker, where the Union Army goes down to the south and still has a Confederate train and takes it north and destroys the tracks and bridges. This is a model of that train set, the Western Atlantic, and the locomotive is called the General. Over here is another General Locomotive. That's a Turner, that's a Lionel. That's a newer one, but it's based on the old original one. Over here is the official tales of Wells Fargo play set and electric train. This was made by the Marks toy company. I'm going to turn it off a minute. The original box is back here. This was a show that was on TV, and it had Dale Robinson. He was Jim Hardy, he was the Wells Fargo agent. And the play set, you got the Wells Fargo headquarters building. You got the Western town. You got the Wells Fargo stagecoach. You got Cowboys that were shooting in bank robbers. You had Indians. You got the whole Western town, complete with spittoons in front of the tavern, lanterns, watering trough for the horses, a box of Winchester's, hitching rails, everything you'd have in a Western town. Of course, here's the stagecoach. These are Indian arrows and things I've never used. Over here is the Roy Rogers guitar. This I bought years ago, and I never used it. But this is probably from around 1957-58. It's got the original box for it. Made in the United States. Roy Rogers sold a lot of items. And anything from... Here's a coloring book, Pat Brady. That was Roy Rogers' sidekick, and now he bailed the Jeep. And you can buy anything from Roy Rogers, from cap guns, stagecoaches, covered wagons, anything Western related. Over here is my original lunchbox. This is Roy Rogers' Dale Evans, what they call a dome top lunchbox. I carried this to school when I was a boy, so you can see it's kind of beat up. The bottom's really beat up, because we used to play a lunchbox slide. We had slider lunchboxes on the floor in the school. And whoever's lunchbox went the furthest and didn't tip over, you could pick all your buddies and take, like he had a candy bar or something, you could take his candy bar. So this was a good lunchbox for that. Most of the guys had these square ones. And these tipped over easier. So this was a pretty good lunchbox for playing that game. This is the thermos. This is not the original thermos. I broke my thermos when I was a kid. This thermos I picked up in an auction years later. They're glass lined. The original thermos are glass lined. So it's very common as a kid, you drop your thermos and you break the glass. They marketed here's a Roy Rogers puzzle. The puzzle next to it is Rin Tin Tin, which was another TV show at the time. There's a story about this dog and the boy. They were on an old Western outpost with the 7th Calvary. That was a TV show that was on for a while. The next one is Joy and Fury, which I used to watch before I went to school in the morning. That was a boy and his horse. The horse was Fury, the black horse. And he lived on the broken wheel ranch with his uncle. Next one I got is a Gene Autry book. Gene Autry and the Golden Stallion. And Gene Autry, I don't have a lot of Gene Autry stuff because he was a little bit before my time. I was more of Roy Rogers in that. Over here is a Davy Crockett pencil case. You can take, you used to carry these to school. You put your pencils and your acers and stuff in there. But this is actually a Walt Disney Davy Crockett. It's even got like the Coonskin cap. It's like felt, like real fur or whatever. In the cabinets down here are the complete Roy Rogers Western Town, Mineral City. You've got a saloon. You've got the bank. You've got the Wells Fargo office, the Barber Shop and Post office. And all the furniture here would actually go inside the building. So if you go behind the building, you can see there's like the wallpaper and the floor and everything, like in a real building. And all these pieces would be in the buildings. On the buck board here is Roy Rogers. There's another one over here. I got Dale Evans II, I can't remember where she is. But if you look down into here, as a matter of fact, maybe can you go down inside or not? But all the figures are very authentic looking. Here's our guy in a bar fight. He's actually slugging another guy. This guy here is robbing the bank. He's riding off on his horse with his six-shooter drawn. He's got his Batman's mask on. And here's a guy getting ready to shoot at him with his rifle. I mean, everything was based on the TV show's back then. You know, a lot of gunplay. You know, then here we got a lady that's just walking down the street in the town. She was just coming back from the market. Then we got the old-time milk wagon with a case of milk in it. You know, everything was horse-drawn back then. Now we come back to the other end here. Here's the Roy Rogers ranch. And of course, the Roy Rogers westerns were kind of unique is that they had cars and stuff in them. And every Roy Rogers, a movie had an old-19, like 39 or 40 Ford Woody. You know, and there's always some reason that Roy Rogers could catch one of those on his horse. The guy would get away in that car and he'd chase up on his horse only in the movie's TV shows. But you can see we got the rodeo shoots. We got the corral, the fences. We got some long horns. Everything you would need on a ranch. We got the anvil, the forge, the water pump, the axe, the wood pile, the water barrel. There's Dale Evans on the porch of the house and bullets laying down sleeping or he's laying on his side. And of course, there was Nellie Bell the Jeep where it was Pat Brady's transportation. Then we go back to the end over here because we missed the whole showcase over here. This upright showcase in back here all the way around. On the top shelf is the official Iron Horse train set. Iron Horse was a TV show and only lasted like one season. It started Dale Robertson, which was the same guy that started in Tales of Wells Fargo. But this show only lasted like about one season. It was a very difficult thing to find. I like the artwork in the box, but the Indians and the cowboy shrinkage show off the train. I don't think they could do that today. Down here is DeRoy Rogers fix it chuck wagon and Nellie Bell Jeep. There was a little wrench. You could take the tires off of the wheels. You could take the wheels off of the chuck wagon and like do maintenance on it. You could take the wheels off the Jeep and you had the tools. You had a little axe or a little hammer. You got the jack stands. You could take a part and put back together. Then you had a strong box. You had a trunk, the water, some gold bullion. On the bottom here are my six shooters. You can see that. They're pretty authentic in those days. Here's the whole sort of gun belt and there's actually plastic bullets in the gun belt. And the six shooters are all pop metal. In the middle of there is what's called a ranch phone. It's an old time phone. You turn a crank or ring and there's a little record inside. It would say hello central. What ranch do you want to get? Please ring. I'll dial in number for you. And it still works. Hello. My name is Tom Brear. I've been collecting farm tractors and it implements for about 25 years. Some of these here the combine and the manure spreader distractor, the disc and the mine when I was young they have been refurbished When you started becoming a collector? Yeah. The tool scale set. They started putting tractors on way back in the 30's 40's Our kid was one of the first I believe that put guys on the tractors. They were usually nickel plated or aluminum. That one there? That supposedly is the world's biggest tractor. It comes from either in Montana or South Dakota where it was built and the two on the end there one shows the way I bought it and this one here after it was restored I have somebody that does my restoring. The pictures on the wall already came originally from the old Ford garage in Howard's Grove My dad found them He must have been exploring downstairs as they were carrying the building the building down and I ended up with them. My name is John Brown and I'm from Wagon Falls, Wisconsin and I'm 85 years old so I'm in my second childhood I've collected toys and trains from way back in 1938 and some of these toys I had as a youngster and I was here in April presenting my Tootsie toys and I brought a couple of these along and they said how about setting up here in October and bring your Marks stuff so that's what I did I'm bringing the Marks toys and Marks is over on your big displays that you got in the back over there there's a Marks tractor and so forth, same one that's in here sold for 83 cents they see those days Well this first one here was I had as a child and you can wind this up and it'll run around and also you put a battery in the lights burn has a little switch on the side has a little brake in the back and my father one day he got kind of disgusted with me playing with his toy and he was reading a newspaper and he says bring that toy over here so I brought it over and he has a siren on it and I can show you that this car had a siren in the back and my father couldn't stand the noise anymore so he tore this thing out of there but I had another one and that was this ambulance that I had gotten a couple years later it has the same motor and everything but this one has a siren so I wasn't going to let them get close to this one and just to give you an idea what it sounds like I'll wind this up and you can see why he took the siren off of the last one so as a kid I would run these now if you listen this baby is really going to whirl so as a kid running that toy all the time drove him crazy but this was also mine as a kid so the other one I found a car in Florida one time at an antique show and it was just like my police car except this one was fire department and I thought boy that's kind of neat so I bought that one and then later on I found an earlier Mark's or even earlier the one I had here and this one was probably about 1931 this was about 1934 and that was one of their first ones however Mark's bought out another company in this truck and this is not the one I had as a kid but it is a similar truck and this truck on the wheels says Gerard well the first Mark's cars like this had Gerard on them also so the Gerard company was bought out by Mark's so the first ones that they made still had Gerard on them they have this car you can get with Gerard or get with Mark's then the rest of them he started calling for Mark's so I've got one of the Gerards because that was the company they started with then I've got over here caterpillar tractors and the caterpillar tractors I've got the oldest one and then they get newer as you go along the line and really the scarcest one of this group and the one you cannot very seldom cannot find and that's this little one and this little tractor sold for a quarter and I've had one of these as a kid but they didn't last very long they're real cheap and you only ran them 3 or 4 times then they quit so there aren't any of these that you find around well this one still operates and so very unusual little tractor because none of them are survived and none of them operate if they did survive so I found this one also in Florida at a flea market and I was real happy to get hold of that this one cranks from the rear and the other one's cranked from the side now notice some of their older tractors like this is really quite beat but it has the original patent on the back when they first sold them they had a patent on it and everything written on on the back of their tractor then as they started to upgrade they didn't list those anymore but this is kind of a rustic old thing but it still does run so I picked this one up just because it's very old there are some trains here and this one here I also had as a youngster this was my tractor and I got this about 1938 and then just about World War II they upgraded this tractor and put a fancier front on it this one has a straight front this one has a curved one and this one here in the 1950s and 1960s so this is their latest one they're basically the same tractor and this one that shows the side of the motor on here it's molded right into the plastic now when Mark did he came out with his new one however if you look at it right the old motor is still you see that we'll take it out of here once the old exhaust is still molded onto the car so they used the same body and Mark's was good at that using things over and over so they moved the same body but they just painted it different and then instead of having metal wheels it has plastic wheels so you think it's a new tractor but it's basically the old from the silver one that they had now this was my car and I bought this in World War II and I got the original box yet and it's called Tricky Taxi and what it does it never runs off the table because as it runs it has a little wheel that turns sideways so as the car gets to the end it turns and never runs off the table so they made Tricky Taxi before the war this was the last one the Black and White one so these go back into about 38 38, 39, 40 all the way up to the war this was one that was made about 1941 so I picked up I have one that I don't have yet but I do find them I pick one of these up so now the reason I brought this along this was a train Mark's train I had from 1938 and it's an old Commodore Vanderbilt and it had a lot of miles as you can see and it grooves in the center but Mark's made this engine and it sold at dime stores Creskies and Woolworths for $1 then a tinder, you had to buy separate and this one sold for $0.10 so all the cars that went with the Mark's train all sold for $0.10 so that was quite a bargain now after the war most people don't know that so this is part of an HO train set and if you look at the caboose for example you say this is rock on the caboose but in the center and I don't know if that will show but there is a Mark's symbol and so if you look at the round thing with an X in it so Mark's did make trains and particularly their old steam engine it has quite an engine and so Mark's did make trains and I brought this just because not many people know that Mark's went into the train business but they didn't stand it too long now there is only one other thing here this is a German made tractor and this is only about 20 years old but I bought it because you wind this tractor up by the wheel and you put the key in here and you wind it up and then you can shift it to first, second, third and fourth gear and it will run at a different speed when you put it in first it runs real slow second a little more and you can put it up and then it has also a reverse so you can put it in reverse so it really does that so I brought that as kind of a novelty so this one over here is a Mark's train from 9th and a lot of people don't know that but this train is a model of the M-10,000 and the M-10,000 was the first liner in the United States and it was made by Union Pacific was the railroad and you can see on the side and there's very very few of these and I am the only one I've actually seen so Mark's made this when the company came out with a first streamliner and they took this all over the United States and all the big cities in one year they just toured with that with that train and so I brought a model of that because Mark's of all things made a little toy of that first streamliner well it gives you a little bit of a cover of some of the things I've got here so Hi, I'm Candice Schmidt and I'm daughter to Irv and Laura Schmidt and my dad had owned the Schmidt stand-up service station on 8th in here on and I brought a few mementos of his service station and also of other gasoline service stations from the 50s and 60s and what I have here is it had been a photo album and any of your vacation pictures you would put in the photo album and that is something that my dad had passed out and also then we have here this had been in the Sheboygan Press in 1953 and it lists all the gasoline dealers association members in Sheboygan and it has pictures of them and where their service station had been located and like I said that had been in the Sheboygan Press in 1953 and it was actually a newspaper and the service stations would put it in their window so this is just a copy of what it was and some of these service stations are still in existence some are just empty buildings or whatever and then here I have a picture of my mom and my dad Irv Schmidt he was a board member for the Gasoline Dealers Association and also president of the Gasoline Dealers Association and this is just a write up from 1968 and when he was first elected this here picture is from the 1940s shortly after the war I know that because my uncle Hank came back from the war and my dad asked him if he would come and work for him for a little while and like I said earlier this station is on Athean here on it's no longer in existence the building is still there right across from Holy Name Church and so anyway my brother John who is now 70 is here the little guy right there and John would pump gas and wash windows and check the oil and everything else and then I remember growing up and my dad talking about the gas wars and Gasoline back then was like five cents a gallon or something like that and he gets so upset because another guy might have raised his Gasoline higher or lower and this here picture is from 1955 and back then my dad would have tires delivered and they would be put into the service station and then after they were all delivered he'd bring them home we lived on North 20th Street and would put them in the basement and whenever a customer needed tires or one tire or four tires dad would come home get a tire from the basement that matched the right size and would bring it back to the service station because he'd have hundreds of them delivered so there wasn't enough room right there to keep them for my dad and myself this is from the 1952 in front of the service station where my dad was holding me that's me with the big bonnet on back then we had those big son bonnets and this is my mom Laura Schmidt and that's my dad's pickup truck and it says Schmidt Standard Service right there and that was my dad's business car and then also here's a receipt and this gentleman was a Max Pittner who lived on North 29th Street and it stated August of 1961 and back then Max Pittner for only $15 and 10 cents had almost 8 gallons of gasoline in his car had an oil loop filter air filter and a full service check for only $15 and 10 cents all of that so this is just a receipt that my dad had and I kept it and this is just like an invoice and then they would just pay him later they didn't have to pay him right away and sometimes my mom would do the billing she'd come into the service station sit at the desk she would send out the bills to people and then that's how they would bill them charge cards weren't really all that popular there and when I was little I would lick the stamps and put them on the envelope and then my dad would give me a little bottle of root beer out of this red thing where the soda was in and also my dad he would give out key chains this is good but this was a key chain and it said who gives a hoot we do Schmitt's standard service and then he also gave out pencils Schmitt's standard service and also playing cards and then this is just a calendar from Dick Hyers service station he's on 9th and Erie and this calendar was from 1991 and I saved it and it just has pictures of the old service stations throughout United States and because standard oil also became Amaco, Sonoco depending upon what region you were in United States they had different names for it and also not part of Erv Schmitt's Schmitt's standard service but I had collected this when I was in Connecticut and I found I ran across this in an antique shop and I bought it and I don't know the date of it it was back from the 1920's maybe, 1910's and this is when cars did not have a gas gauge inside so you had to use a measuring stick to put it into the tank of the gas gasoline tank to see how much gasoline you were going to be needing so they didn't overflow so this is the measuring stick Sonoco of standard so standard oil was also Amaco and you know the Rockefeller flag or history of that and then on the other side it says here also Sonoco Motors and so forth New York on Broadway Avenue so this is just something I picked up when I lived in Connecticut um in the 1910's, 1920's so that's the history of Schmitz standard service on Ethan Heron these hats are from the collection of Carol Schmidt from Sheboygan, Wisconsin she has had fun just having fun with hats throughout the years she has quite a few different kinds in her collections you can see a number of hats that she has that have feathers on a hill box hats, you can see some straw hats there's a pink hat that is actually from England and then in front she has a very thin hat that just has a band and has a lot of netting and she calls that her wedding hat she was very unhappy that her favorite hat has disappeared when she was on vacation in San Francisco they left it in a rental car so she's trying to get that hat back but you can see that she has quite a collection some have bands on that would have been worn underneath on the chin and there's velvet ones there's felt ones there's silk ones so she has quite a collection this is the comic collection he was not able to be here today but many of his comics span quite a bit of the 20th century he has quite a few over here we have Roy Rogers and we have little Lulu Red Rover and then he also has about Betty Bailey quite a few of the western ones Roy Rogers and then he has quite a few of the Looney Tunes Tarzan Gene Autry Tom Mix so he has quite a few that he has collected over the years he has a few newspaper ones one from the comic weekly and one from the Chicago American comic pictorial so he has collected quite a few throughout the years he also has a number of resource books for comics that we have on our round table that we will show you later on Hi I'm Phyllis Smith and we're here at the County Museum and in this room is about 25 years worth of collection that I have done of any kind of advertising item of a business that once was in business here in the city of Sheboygan not the county but the city of Sheboygan I do not collect a specific type of article it can be anything from a match book to a letter opener to a croc a sign bottles any kind of a thing so long as it tells me of a business that was here sometime old modern new in business out of business the best way to determine how old a business is on this woodworking apron the phone number is 1063W I have some items that have phone numbers that are only 3 digits when they get up into the 4 digits or the 5 the 7 they're getting newer this one the maple shop is a GL 8 G and L and 5 on the phone dial so this is a little more recent probably in the 60s 50s 60s maybe but I collect anything and everything paper cardboard old signs pine hills golden corn now that's pine hills is not in the city of Sheboygan a little line at the bottom says Schultz Brothers Sheboygan Wisconsin and another thing when they put Sheboygan WIS that tells me it's a newer or older item than if it was WI here we have a crock from art Schmidt phone 780 7305 here's newer 1378 I have bottles from Crystal Springs pinsies candies, yum yum kites, candies more yum yum all kinds of pins and tickets checks, blotters box drugs this is Huffman's flower land which is now cons out on the EE Enzo gel and these shoes and I don't know can you pick that up let me hold this one can you pick that up it says it's printed in there H.C. Prangie Company Sheboygan WIS it's a high heeled shoe and then they put out a little commemorative compliments of the Prangies big department store that is what Prangies used to be known as if somebody said oh the big department store they knew it was Prangies it's a little top over here we have several crates I have a Kool-Aid nowadays Kool-Aid is in powder form in those days it was a soda pop locally distributed Spillerspring Duffel Bay Sheboygan Dry Goods Sheboygan Dry Goods was across the street H.C. Prangie Company they were another department store held just about everything the Sheboygan Baking Company Golden Crust Red Meadow Box I do not know where that came from but I know that it was Sheboygan I don't know the street address and then there's Schultz Brothers they're still going to find that's a banana box in the fall of the year the banana boat would come in they bring in the bananas and the fresh fruit now we just go to our grocery store and buy bananas and fresh fruit those days it only came in once or twice and that was the only time that you would have fresh fruit and bananas some stuff that you didn't grow around here over here we have a board of different years and different businesses calendars all kinds of calendars and wooden hangers this little hanger is also from the big store H.C. Prangie that's for hanging a child or an infant's garment on it that's why it's so small we've got a yard stick from Ram's little home and we have more crates here from breweries mineral water shriars over on the other table I'll talk about their bottles this let me take this away this is a Prangie's folding box I ordered your groceries there but couldn't take them home because maybe you were invalid they would put your groceries in these boxes deliver it to your home and I was just recently told not only did they deliver it to your home they would bring it into your house take the food out of the box and put it in your house where you wanted it and then fold up the box and go back to Prangie's that's what I call service this is a picture I don't know how well you can zoom in on it of the H.C. Prangie store we feel that it's about 1927 it's going to be hard to see but there are some vehicles here and they look like their model teas over here we have a collection of soda bottles this is springtime lake breeze Kool-Aid again this is somebody by the name of Barney Grassy West Side Dairy there's a few Shriars this is when it was beer this is when it was soda various eyeglasses from Rudnicks and Emick AF Rust Dry Goods Sheboygan Old King and Kool and Arts Tavern Art Duel Furniture Avenue Exchange and everybody's favorite see if you'll come back Don McNeil everybody knows Don McNeil and his breakfast club on the wall here is a large poster of the PoloWare Company their enamelware I have some of their enamelware and some Valrath enamel and then because a month or so back it was the 100th anniversary of very fine I brought the paper and some glasses and the glasses celebrate the 75th anniversary this is a crock from Triangle Grocery which later on became Miesfels and then Miesfels moved out I have a phone book from 1943 which the February of that year was a very good month and March 30th and this is a monopoly game of the various businesses of Sheboygan this is only a part of my collection my name's Fred Zimmer and I collect 10 types I started around 1830 I'm all the way up to about 1850 they started getting painted with color 10 types actually it's on iron it's a photo that is hand painted very similar to a painting and they really are considered in the sense of painting the one you're looking at right now has the twins and the twins is one photo and then somehow the artist, the photographer reduced the dog through photography on the same plate and then after that was finished, those two photos he hand painted it and then he painted the floral composition on top of that this is a very rare tin type actually where they were done with a double photo on them as such we come to the next tin type with the gold frame the frame was found in Sheboygan it's actually a very beautiful frame from probably the 1860's 1870's the lady is from Indiana that's an early tin type I have dated an 1860 it could be even earlier again this hand painted it's an early pioneer lady I just love the piece because of what it is being so early with a pioneer lady the one down here in the corner is even earlier than the previous one which comes to around 1850 probably 1860 and you know that by the style of the frame and the hair cell and clothes the ladies are dated through the clothing you're where are we now the lady the lady the lady was found in Manitowoc looks just like my sister-in-law and my nephew is trying to get it out of me because it is a dead ringer again it's lightly hand painted the one to the right can you get the one with the triangle and that is a very a nice piece because it's in a triangular frame it's so unusual those two are probably about 1870 1880 for as far as I know my name is Scott Levendeski and I have a collection of different tavern items mainly bar tokens and the reason I started collecting the bar tokens is that I'm working on a book on shabuigan bars and taverns and I'm using a lot of the bar tokens to illustrate in the book to show that the tavern was in existence other than just the name and there are very few pictures of many of these taverns so other than some newspaper ads the only thing that you can find for some of these taverns are the tokens earlier taverns had metal tokens now just about every tavern has plastic of some color most of them are round or square couple taverns do have wood nickels or wood tokens commonly called wood and nickels and I have some of those in this book also and tokens are all pretty much the same size now earlier they used to be different sizes depending on the amount sometimes the tokens that were good for a nickel or 10 cents were smaller than 25 cent ones hello my name is Darla Jean-Crowis I live in random lake and I'm displaying my mother's valentines my mom was islaverne greenewald wilkie she grew up in random lake and she went to school in silver creek the valentine collection is from her school years this one was sent in 1942 my grandmother wrote on the back of every one of them they have a lot of them have moving parts this guy winks my aunt my my grandma wrote this one out to my mom from my aunt in 1938 where my mom would be five years old and my aunt would be three I gave this valentine to my mom and it says I'd like you to picture you as my valentine it says laverne g from howard wilkie and it was given in 1937 they would have been seven and eight at the time they are now married 62 years all these valentines are from school people or from cousins a lot of the names we recognize that there's still people that live in the area some have little bump outs of little foam things that pull out some are handmade there's also personal letters in this collection so it's a really neat remembrance especially with my grandmother writing on all the cards thanks