 If you watch Common Ground online, consider becoming a member or making a donation at lptv.org. Lakeland PBS presents Common Ground, brought to you by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota. Today we're going to give a tour on some of my items in my antique building. We just like collecting old stuff, and we started small and just kept buying and buying, and all of a sudden we had a lot of stuff. I think the first thing I start with is this needle camera that was used from the old West days. It's the one that you hold up that flash, and it goes whoof, and you see a lot of them in the old Western movies still. And we have the full-size Elvis, which we got in Chicago. Carol and I go to Chicago every November to a huge antique show, and we bought Elvis there, and we bought a few other items there. We bought that silent movie projector from 1906 in Chicago. Lots of posters from different Elvis movies. And then we got a popcorn machine that we got just 20-some miles west of us in Perm. It didn't work when I received it, but I had a gentleman repair it, and we have made a couple of batches of popcorn with it. And then this projector here came from... We got it in Brainerd, and it came from Minneapolis. Back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s was huge for these wallboxes. You'd go into a restaurant, you sit down in your booth, and there was a wallbox, and you could put your nickel or diamond there and play your favorite songs on the jukebox that was over in the corner. You're not going to see very many mixers around with three beaters. Of course, everything is standard with two beaters. And this thing here is a flower sifter, which you sift your flower, and up here you have your... This is our first stove we bought, and this is made in 1929. And then we have a bread-making machine here from 1904. And it just purchased this a week ago, and all the parts are inside for making bread. But probably the coolest thing on this wall is that vacuum cleaner. It's from 1911, and you take the top handle, and you pull up on that to suck the dirt up into there, and it has a filter system in there. But I think we all realize it would have been a lot quicker to use a broom and a dustpan, but this was the start of the vacuum cleaner business. And this is a neat, round old stove from 1899. It's bigger than most wood stoves. You see most of them are 12 or 14 inches, and this is a 20 inch. So this was made for a bigger building. And this is definitely all usable. There's no cracks or holes or anything in there. You can just use it by just putting the stove pipe on there. And of course we have some nice old pitchers. A few of them, like Little Richard and Bobby Lee and them, Carol and I went and saw them, and they were lucky enough to get them autographed, and really easy to visit with and that. And we got a couple old sinks. There's a lot of clawful bathtubs around, but very few of them are in a four foot. Most of them are five and a half or six. This is a four foot. And then we have this toilet that's on the wall, which is easy flushers because they got them high up. And that came from Great Falls, Montana. I've seen it advertised and I bought it over the phone and I have a friend that has a store up in Great Falls, so the man delivered it there. And then later I picked up the product when I met that gentleman from the store. This is a couple of neat TVs by Filco. They came out with these in the 50s thinking this was going to be the big thing. And it actually ended up bankruptcy. Filco, they went bankrupt over these TVs. They went over so poorly and the quality of the TV wasn't that good. And I have a little article that I picked up, I put on here from off the internet showing what happened. But they filed bankrupts and what have you. Anyway, and then this is a neat little phonograph here, which got the cylinder. And it's in pretty darn nice shape for a hundred years old. And we've played it a few times, but mainly just here for looks. And then my wife, Carol, when she was in high school, she kept all her high school buttons and little odds and ends, little jewelry and all that stuff. So we have it all on display. When I was a senior in high school, we went on a bus trip to Minneapolis to the University of Minnesota. A school trip. And everybody that got off the school bus, they handed us a four pack of cigarettes when we were seniors in high school. Today they'd have a heart attack if they passed out of cigarettes to anybody. This is a cream separator that is one of my favorite items in the whole building. It's a cream separator with a square tub. I grew up on a farm and I've seen a lot of cream separators, but I've never seen one with a square tub. They're all always a ron. And this thing is made before electricity on the farms. They have a treadmill. You can either run it with a dog or a goat or a sheep. All it does is stand there and run, and it turns the separator and it separates the cream from the milk. And then I actually have another treadmill right behind it that runs a washing machine from 1888. It's not in quite as nice a shape, but this is a butter churn that actually makes 17 gallons of butter. This actually was made to run on a treadmill also. You could either stand here and rock it to make your butter or you could have a treadmill like this for $16. You could buy the treadmill. This was made in 1877. And then right behind that is an apple press. And that's from 1860s. And this is made for making wine or apple juice or you just put your apples in there, turn the crank, smash the apples. They'd go down in that little tub. You slide it over here and you turn the crank to smash all the juice out and it has a little hole on this tray and your juice would run in there. And this is kind of a neat singer from 1896. And back here is just some washing machines. The cool one is this one right here. This has electric motor on it. And this was made in 1918. And there was not a lot of electricity in 1918, so I would assume it was a fairly well-to-do family that owned this washing machine. I got a nice organ we bought in Wisconsin about five, six years ago and it was actually made in 1879. And I'm not an organ player, but we've had a few people here that have played it and it plays very well. I can show you the noise it makes. And that's, I don't play. But for a 140-year-old machine, I think it's pretty awesome. You see a few radios around like this. It's before AM, actually. It's a very old radio. It has no volume control. If it's too loud, you just turn it off to station a little bit. And you see a few of these radios around, very few stands. The stand is your speaker. This is a trunk that we bought quite a few years ago and it's a humpback and it's full with old ladies clothes and of course we got the moth balls just like they had in the old days. And Carolina, we just found out one thing about trunks that have the dome on. They was normally owned by the rich people. They came out with the idea if they have a dome top, their trunk always got put on top of the pile and all the trunks with the flat tops was on the bottom. So these people decided, oh, we'll make a dome, our trunk will be on the top. It won't get damaged. And then of course we have our 50 soda fountain area, which I'm quite proud of this. We keep thinking we're done with it. We've got everything we can have and I'll be darned I'll find something else. I've got to squeak in or put in but it's getting to the point. It's full. It's full of business probably back in the 50s or 60s but we ended up with a few posters and I want to make sure we keep that around for people to remember about Marnock. This is the back of a 1956 Chevy. Just took the trunk off and built a seat in there and got the lights hooked up and kind of fits in with the soda fountain. This jukebox was purchased in 1998. It was the very first item that we purchased in this building and we played somewhere between 5,000 records on this jukebox. I'll come out here at night and I'll just come over and punch buttons. I don't even care what song comes up and it plays awesome. This is a 1954 model and it's got awesome sound for 63 years old. That bicycle up there is probably one of the coolest items too in the building. It was made in 1898. It has wooden rims, wooden chain guard and a wooden chain back fender. Then we have our pop machines that we have a Pepsi that we just purchased about a month ago. It's a very rare one you don't see. That's the only one I've ever seen like that and then we have two other coke machines. This is somewhat common and this is a smaller model and you don't see a lot of that one so that's probably got more value than all the rest put together. And then we have all our signs. We've got SNH green stamps. This is another neat item. Before they had the cork cans of oil this is what they had in the service stations. They would use a deal like this to come over here, put that on there fill up your cork, then put the cap on and as soon as you take your cork away it would come back and all your grips would grip back into your container. Then you just put this in your car and you don't have the cork can to throw away. And then we go into my gas pumps and this particular pump came from a small town by Bluegrass just northeast of Wydena and it came from the central store and this had a 34-volt motor in there that ran off a windmill charger. Then we have this rag line that came from the 50's Carnival. They had your jack knives or silver dollars or all that laying out there and you put your quarter in there and you turn your crank and I haven't got them set up to work right now but they do work. This is an ice cream cart that we bought from Vancouver in Canada about two and a half years ago. So you have dry ice in here and you have all your treats in here and in the front it has a door to put all your little papers and what have you for that. And you're going down the road and let them know you're coming. The next thing we're going to look at is our jail and these are original jail bars from Wydena and inside the jail we have a 1800's jail that we went down to Ohio. It's two cells. They have a fold on and then the doors it has a little slot for putting their food through when you feed them. This is a craps table that was made when it was illegal to shoot crap. So on this table it has cranks on it so if the feds was coming you could take this apart and hide it within two or three minutes. Pretty cool. And then that's an old bathtub from the old Cowboys and you can realize back in them days everybody was a little smaller than they are today to fit in that. The oldest thing in our building is that fork right back there and I have no idea how old it is but it's got wooden times on it. It's wrapped with leather and it's a six time fork and it's got to be 150-200 years old. Well if anybody is interested in coming and booking or looking at our collection just email us and we'll see if the time works for you and I and like I say there's no charge and we enjoy showing it if we have the time to do it. I love coming out here in the evenings and putzing around just sometimes I just come here turn your jukebox on and sit in a chair and listen you know look around it's I enjoy that.