 Hello, I'm the executive director at Shwell and County Historical Society and Museum Travis Gross And I'd like to welcome you to this year's edition of our Collectors and Collections program this year. We have 10 displays on hand or anything ranging from original Barbies to schlitz brewing company memorabilia to old-timey radio shows So sit back enjoy the show. Hopefully you learn something from from our guest presenters And maybe next year you could be a presenter yourself. All right. Thank you Hi, I'm Kathy Redsack and I'm from Sheboygan and welcome to collectors and they're collectibles at the Sheboygan County Historical Museum My collection actually started when I was a little girl These are my actual toys that I played with Between the years 1959 and 1964. Well, a lot of women don't like to tell their age I guess that's an okay thing when you're talking about collectibles Down here we have my original Barbie doll with the bubble cut. I did have an original number one with the ponytail and I traded her in For the twist and turn which is in the orange bathing suit next to the Barbie doll Ken is original. He has the fuzz hair. That's how you can tell he's an original Alan is Midge's boyfriend He came a little bit later in the series and Midge is in the box and then there's Skipper who is Barbie's little sister The clothing that I had with all the accessories are actually depicted in the yellow for Skipper The blue for Ken and the pink for Barbie Barbie's outfits were designed by a designer Most of them have zippers Snaps and working buttons again, my range is from probably 1959 to about 1964 As we move down in my display. I do have a couple other Things that are a little bit unique to my collection. I have my original autograph book. It was from when I was in fourth grade There's some things that unfortunately cannot be pulled back from there But it's kind of a fun piece to have. I have two of the comic books that came out They sold for 12 cents a piece Two of her story books and did you know just as a point that Barbie was an actual cheesehead? She was born in Willow, Wisconsin on March 9th I also have some of the cutouts. I don't unfortunately have the paper dolls themselves But I do have some of their outfits And I have a lot of the hallmark ornaments. I have a picture of my tree, which is done in all Barbie ornaments the one in front Right here is actually a signed Patricia Andrews piece of hallmark Patricia Andrews was the designer for most of the hallmark ornaments for the earlier issues When I was a little girl, I had a jumper that was an aqua wool and my mother Saved up a lot of money to get that jumper for me and she had One of her friends make a jumper to match my Barbie doll For my Barbie doll and I have a picture of that with my Barbie doll there As most little fashion divas of our time we idolized Barbie. Barbie was the doll for us We got rid of our Betsy Wetsies. We got rid of our bride dolls We got rid of our walking dolls and we moved on to the sophisticated world of Barbie and as such I also became a member of her fan club These are all of the magazines from her original fan club along with my membership card and the stickers that went with it I am going to move over a little bit to this other table where I have the dream house in the fashion shop The dream house is Barbie's home away from home when she wasn't on the road. This is where she lived You know Barbie was a fashion model as a teenager and she moved from Willows, Wisconsin. I suppose it was too small of a town to New York City and eventually off to Malibu But this was her home She also had a fashion store now the fashion stores the dolls in the dream house and the fashion shop are not my original Boys those I did purchase after in later years the outfits however Duty picks some of the original clothing There's the green dress in the fashion shop the red dress in the fashion shop as well as the first stole in the fashion shop and The lady that's purchasing a wedding dress is Actually an original Barbie item The dress that's on the doll in the dream house the knit one was made by my grandmother She knit that dress from my Barbie doll I Have the original case that I carried or more or less Shlucked from house to house every Saturday morning because we played with our Barbie dolls and I also have the bed that was made by Susie goose Susie goose was not a Mattel product as Barbie was but the bed was made for Barbie doll use On this table, I have put together furniture Unfortunately, I only have a few pieces of it put together furniture was made after the dream house because the dream houses were cardboard And they weren't holding up as well. So they made these plastic Pieces that you could put together and build furniture My original Barbie game. I have a photograph of me at Christmas with our box TV Showing me opening up my Barbie doll game that I received as a gift that year The other dolls on this table I have bought on secondary market Some of them are the anniversary editions That came out others are cross collectibles if you are an Elvis collector You have Barbie loves Elvis if you're into NASCAR you have a NASCAR Barbie there's also a Harley Barbie and of course like I said Barbie was a cheesehead. So we have a Wisconsin cheerleader What not to do with some of your Barbies is Trying to play with them over too hard I do have a little bit of an example of that where one of my one of the dolls I picked up has cut hair a Lot of girls cut the hair on their Barbies as a rebellion to the long flowing ponytail that Barbie had Another one is the jacket on one of the dolls is quite deteriorated And that was from bad from keeping it in an unsafe environment for collectibles And the car is a little bit beat up that car was actually given to me by a friend of mine And she thought that because I had a Barbie collection that I should have a car for Barbie The other two dolls are actually bought again on secondary market. They're part of a collector's series And that's what you're finding more and more now are the collectible series the Christmas series cross collectibles and boxed up Barbies and That's basically my collection I love Barbie I wanted to become a fashion designer because of Barbie I didn't but I'm working accounting, but Barbie has been part of my life for like ever and collecting and finding the pieces again in My basement or in boxes has been just a real joy And I hope that Barbie brings joy to a lot of little girls going forward Barbie sold for three dollars originally and there's there's three Barbie sold every minute in the world So Barbie is a huge huge success Hi, my name is Jessica check and my husband and Bradley and I Are collectors of the vintage arcades here on display at the Sheboygan County Museum? We live in Green Bay and have been collecting for many years So the exhibit has been up for about six months and it's coming to an end this weekend But it has been a really good experience working with everyone here at the museum our collection includes a lot of Different games kind of a variety So we have everything from very classic titles that you would see or that you may remember like Frogger Donkey Kong there's a cuban on display here to a little more Unique games like bubbles or three stooches that may not be as familiar We also tried to bring in some newer titles one that's recognizable as fix it Felix That was part of the the Disney movie from a couple years back. So You know, there's a lot of unique characteristics of the games that we've tried to relate to the public Some of them have very unique artwork or a unique story behind them Technology during this time during the late 70s early 80s was progressing very quickly so If you read some of the information on the games, it'll go through what makes that game special how it was significant What part or feature or technology was new and different at the time? so We've you know in addition to the games had some collectibles on display to really capture Just how big the arcade craze was during that time. It wasn't just the arcade games It was lunchboxes and posters and stickers and patches and everything you could think of so we tried to really bring that Feel and that vibe back to the museum to relate to the public If you would like to see more about the collection or read some information about it. We do maintain a Facebook page It's called silver coin arcade think it like a quarter silver coin arcade So you can find more information and pictures there, but we have really enjoyed our time at the museum and talking with the public and Working with the community Hi, I'm Bernie Markovich. My hobby is needlepoint. I have been doing this for 35 years I was interested in needlepoint when I was a boy my grandmother used to do it Unfortunately, she only did pre-works and then on top of it She only worked in beige wool and I thought this is not what I want to be doing So I didn't I didn't start then my mother taught me how to embroider that was fun for a while But you know pillowcases how many of those can you make so? About 35 years ago. The late Sarah Axel got me started with needlepoint. She said you'd really like doing it So what I did is I bought a Canvas from her the bell pole that's down on the end with the roses and That was the very first piece that I had done. I realized that in order for me to Actually Activate this hobby I needed to complete something so that was the very first piece the roses in the foliage on that bell pole were already worked in I did the stripes the background color and And I completed it in a reasonable length of time and I have ever since been hooked on that The biggest work that I have done are the six panels that start here. They're the creation the six pieces Were kits that came from England. They were approximately a hundred dollars a piece and it took me three years I did two a year the combination with the six pieces is over 369,000 stitches I Think that it's probably going to become an alter frontal at my church for advent Because it's based on the creation and that's the be beginning of the church year the other pieces that I have here our Kits as well I've got traditional pieces like this English cruel work What could become a pillow cover? I've got bold paisley Pieces I've got fruit every single one of these is different some of them The piece right behind me. I did in a month's time. It's petty point. Those are smaller stitches Worked on canvas that has smaller holes more holes to the inch This is what a pre-work piece looks like This is all row point. It's even smaller and that's worked with a single piece of wool and It takes a lot of time These color sheets are what do you use when you're working with your? Candices the The colors are not necessarily the colors that you're working with You may be working with a shade or something like that, but in order to make the canvases Legible you have to see the difference in the colors So what would happen and I'm going to get up now and show you this very elaborate Paisley piece Here's the worksheet It's got the colors running down the side Here's the actual canvas with the colors going down the side and The corresponding pieces of wool and you got to make this all work So when I did this I did each one of the larger paisleys first Like these and then I went around the edge and then I filled in the other colors You do what is I think best for you I I start my day when I'm working on a canvas and I date all of them. So I started this canvas on the 30th of May this year and it has 48,000 stitches and this was done Two months later and What we what you will see on the edge of these is a black border That is for the person that Converses into pillows because I don't want to lose any of the the colored work that was in there So she said just do three strands all the way around I do five because I don't want her to chop off anything these pieces down at the end Were hand painted canvases they are always the most expensive this is petty point and I started this on the 2nd of March and I don't have a finished date, but it didn't take that long Sometimes I'll put my initials down in the corner and the year that I've done it Sometimes I don't but the bottom line is is that I will knock out two to three pieces of this every year I've got a basement full of a finished canvases, but unfinished works. I Will sometimes do these as Christmas gifts special occasion gifts I did this pillow as a Christmas gift last year. It was absolutely stunning when it was finished It's got it's got the birds that you can barely see in that in that canvas with the pears and the the cherries going around it and So Pat Vaughn actually assembled the pillow The kit was approximately a hundred and twenty five dollars. There was another forty dollars for the the the fabric For the backing of the pillow the trim that went on it and then another fifty dollars for for Pat Vaughn It's not an inexpensive hobby, but the thing is is this this stuff wears like iron. It's absolutely amazing. I have in the past bought unfinished Canvases that someone started and never finished And I will take out all the stitches the beige part and I will will start all over again and sometimes I buy those at estate sales. So it's a rewarding hobby It's it's color There are things like on this this piece here the cruel part Was was pre-worked. I bought it at a needlepoint shop in Milwaukee. I designed all of this to make it bigger and The thing is is that it came out quite nice, but the geometry Yes, got to start somewhere and you got to end somewhere and you hope that it all works out I actually do pillows that will have quotations on them and I just stick the needle in the canvas and I'll start the words and It it works out. It just works out And I think that because of the experience that I've had with it, but I'll tell you of all the things that I do This has been one of the most rewarding things because I can do it at home. I can do it in a chair I don't have to lift it. I don't have to drag it any place else. All I have to do is finish it. So Needle point is difficult to find. It's out of fashion right now. I buy my kits from a Irmins in London And I find that it's it's really a nice hobby If you want to do needle point stockings for your grandchildren or stuff like that Those kits are available if you can find the catalog and I think any company Company that deals with embroidery Crocheting and stuff like that would probably have needle point kits. So I had I recommended highly and of course Don't forget holiday memories is just around the corner We're up to our eyeballs in Christmas here at the museum and we're ready to start next week Thank you. Hi, my name is Sherri Becker and I brought my autographed album collection today The first one. I'll talk about is with Peter Frampton. I met him at summer fest. I don't recall the year But this is a picture of him signing the autographed album as you can see here on the bottom At first he wrote to cherry and then he said wait a minute. I think I spelled your name wrong So that's me in the corner up there spelling out my name. Sherri the first Album that really got me started as far as collecting Different signatures was 38 special and that's when they played in Sheboygan around 1994 And from them from then on it pretty much kind of became an obsession for me Back here. I have firefall. That's when they played at Lake Fest in Sheboygan and To this day, I'm still good friends with them and have them on Facebook and when they come around town They usually will give me a call to come out see the show Back here, I have Barry Williams people know him as Greg Brady from the Brady Bunch He was also playing with like the cow sills The Bay City Rollers, which I didn't get their autograph as well Probably one of my favorites is lover boy over here Matt for net who is the drummer has some awesome stories to tell for example this album right down here a Lot of people think that that's Mike Reno who's the lead singer of lover boy They think that this is Actually him in his pants, but it's really the photographer's 13 year old daughter because Mike Reno could not fit in these pants. Oh Let's see here The fix I'm also friends with them yet, too. So when they do come around the Wisconsin area usually they'll give me a call as well And what's nice is because one band will Be in the same venue as with another band. That's how I ended up becoming known with other Different bands and getting their signatures as well. Oh This is my brother from another mother. He's actually with the guest who and Had to get a close-up with him just because a lot of people were asking me at the Wild Center if that is my brother I should have just said yes and Oh, these are some albums that I had from when I was a teenager They are records. However, I won't play them just because they're I don't want to scratch them at all and they are double-sided and Yeah, so basically This is my collection on blue Easter cult also our friends of mine. They played in Sheboygan recently as well and Oh, one of my oldest Striper was one of my favorite bands back in the 80s I was able to get their signatures as well and then I met them again 15 years later So that's when I had them sign the actual pictures So other than that, I have over 3,000 albums These are all the ones that I have signed and my goal is to get more, but thank you very much my name is Mary Mines and I've been interested in dolls for as long as I can remember I have all of my childhood dolls thanks to my parents having kept them and I started collecting seriously in 1987 I'm my number one Barbie here is the prize of my collection She's one of the first Barbies ever made the blondes were made Two to one to the Burnett. So she's very rare. She has her original stand and her original outfit And then next to her is a number two Barbie Yet she's dressed in a very rare outfit called Roman holiday the one next to her is a number three and She is wearing commuter set The next number three is wearing an outfit called Easter parade and my brunette number three is wearing gay Parisian those four outfits Were made only in 1959 and then they were discontinued. So they're very hard to find My first Barbie is right here. I bought her myself. My parents never bought me a Barbie So I found her at a Ben Franklin store in Port Washington when I was about eight years old and I bought her with my birthday money And my other first Barbie is This one down here. She's also wearing one of my original outfits the rest I've collected over the years my friend Diane and I go to estate sales garage sales doll shows Conventions and I've collected all of these over the years I have a lot of very hard to find outfits and some easy to find outfits Down this way are a lot of the mod era. It's called dolls including Barbie's friends Stacy Christie PJ Jew Excuse me Julia a lot of other dolls. These are twist and turn Barbies And I have all these dolls in their original outfits. This is Barbie's boyfriend Ken over here and Then down on this section These are just a few of the dolls that I have in their original boxes Some of them do have their original wrist tags like this skipper Which is very hard to find and then down on this end a lot of these are Barbies little sister skipper and her friends scooter and ginger and There's a fluff over here or and Moving on we have Cho Cho Chan. This is a skipper doll from Japan They were only sold in Japan. So these are really hard to find in the United States She is not wearing her original outfit Then over here we have Francie dolls Francie's friend Casey right here and This is a black Francie again. These were very hard to find. They weren't on the market very long They were made in the 70s. They weren't very popular. So Mattel pulled them from the market So they're very hard to find and this particular outfit is also extremely rare in The box if you can still find it it would be worth anywhere from three to four thousand dollars. I Did not pay that much for those And then my friend Diane also brought a Few Tammy dolls over here She's made by ideal Tammy's made by ideal and This is posing Tammy Tammy Ted her brother and pepper, which is her little sister. This is another doll. I collect. She's by Kenner and she's called Darcy These three are original Darcy's This is Darcy's friend Erica and her friend Dana Darcy never had a boyfriend. She was only on the market for two or three years and she was discontinued because she didn't have the Impact of competing with Barbie that Kenner had hoped for but she's an extremely high quality doll with a lot of nice outfits as well And then I also do Barbie restorations For example, this is a photo of a before picture the doll's hair was badly cut her face needed new paint She was very mistreated and This is the result of re-rooting her And I made her An original outfit so never throw away those old dolls they can still be somebody's treasure I'm Rick Seidemann, and this is my son Noah He's gonna tell us about his outfit and some of the clothing and things he has on I got powder horn holds powder kind of powder Gun powder. Okay What else do you have? Tomahawk That you throw Okay Canteen that holds water that leaks for it if you Put real water in it ever sack that's filled up with games All right, and then they can see the Tomahawk and the and the powder horn a little bit better. What else do you have on? What kind of hat are you wearing? Tricorn hat. Okay. Why did you call it Tricorn? Because it looks like a corn It's got three corners. Yes Okay What kind of pants are you wearing? Bridges. Okay And what's what's it? What kind of coat are you wearing? What are you wearing like you got what else do you have on? You got your coat and your waistcoat? Yes, and your shirt. Yes, and then you got your neck stock neck stock. Yeah Anything else you want to show them? My belt. Oh your belt. Oh, okay. What about what about your fire lack? You want to show me your fire lack? Can you can you go to shoulder? Can you do make ready? present fire Very good. We're here showing off our re-enacting Collection I guess we re-enact the French War and it's kind of funny because when I got contacted by the Historical Society To bring my collection here. I really didn't think of myself as a collector and I've got patch collections and other collections but I didn't really think of my French War re-enacting stuff is a collection I still didn't even up until like a couple days ago, but when I was coming here yesterday I was thinking about and I had all my bins. I'm like I am a collector and What I really am a collector of is I guess the different clothing the different Interpretations the different impressions that I can do as a re-enactor and I started out doing re-enacting in 1997 I went to an event over at the farmers and sportsmen's club is called a fur trade rendezvous actually No, I should take that back. It was right here. It was a fur trade rendezvous right here at the Historical Society My dad invited me to it and that's what got me into re-enacting And so I started going to all these fur trade ones and the one that got me into French War was at the farmers and sportsmen's club and ever since then I started Actually I joined that group and that was doing this impression over here Rogers Rangers. They were the Scouts For the British Army during the French in anywhere They wore green uniforms sometimes brown uniforms gray uniforms But uniforms that blended in the woods and they fought the French and the Americans in their own style a hidden run guerrilla type warfare And then after a while I ventured away from doing Rangers. I wanted to do the British red coat so I wanted to stick with the same type of Tactics and I went to a British light infantry uniform and that's this here But I'll talk a little bit more about that after I talk about some of the other impressions I have my main impression is British light infantry and the 55th regiment and over here is a Privates coat Like what the British Army most the British Army use and this is a 55th regiment coat This is what they would have looked like their coats will look like if when they came off the boats at Nova Scotia And then in New York in 1757 these long Coat tails the bright yellow lace the green facings what we call facings and that that identified this regiment as the 55th these green facings in the yellow lace and They would be wearing a hat like this called a tricorn hat or or cocked hat and their Commander was a man named Lord George Augustus by Count Howe and he When he got to New York met Major Robert Rogers who commanded the Rangers and he went out on scouts With Robert Rogers trying to find better tactics for the British Army to use better Clothing equipment and what he came up with in 1757 was a coat similar to this it was cut down short shorter than the Highland coats They took the lace off the coats They took their tricorn hats cut them down into short round caps with two Two to two and a half inch brims and that's what they fought the Ticonderoi campaign in 1758 unfortunately for him in the opening skirmish of the battle he was shot in the lungs and perished immediately and after the campaign these uniforms weren't very Well received by the British Army and the soldiers and the men and then when winter came They definitely weren't very warm for the soldiers So they went back to more of the the former style, but what the British Army did was Create a light infantry company in every regiment and that's this uniform. That's that was my main impression for a number of years 55th regiment company of light infantry. So I still have the green facings But I got to take off the lace so I could blend in the woods. It's actually Pretty much a hybrid between the two uniforms a good compromise The they added wings and these wings actually act as is like a cape when I've been at events when it's raining This this wicks or or takes the moisture off my shoulders and brings it down to like a cape wood So it has a practical purpose So then after a while I ventured to a new uniform and that's what I'm wearing right now this is gauges light infantry or the 80th regiment a light arm foot and This was 1758 this unit was created and this was recreated basically to do the job of the Rangers The British Army did not like that the lack of discipline in the the colonial Rangers So they wanted to create their own Ranger regiment and that was gauges light infantry So this is the first British Army regiment that wasn't a red-coated regiment They were brown uniforms and we're used for scouting and in doing those type of duties And the other cool thing about this uniform is that in 1761 After the French we were ended the British sent out soldiers to the Great Lakes to garrison different posts here and The main unit the garrison the post was a unit called the 60th Royal Americans, but the unit that escorted the 60th Royal Americans from Detroit to Michelle Mackinaw to La Bay or what we know is Green Bay today was gauges light infantry. They went from Detroit They went along the upper peninsula down the Green Bay then around the door pencil and down the coast of Wisconsin all the way towards Chicago along the bottom of Lake Michigan to the St. Joseph River and then they went through the river over to President a Niles Michigan left another garrison there So I get to be a unit that was actually in Wisconsin short time in October But in Wisconsin and who knows maybe they came to Sheboygan. We don't know There's a map of the expedition in the in England One of the members of the museum Keith Whitter is actually examined that map and written about it He lives in Michigan now and worked for the Mackinaw State Parks Commission But as far as my correspondence with him He it doesn't show you the campsites that they used so this is kind of some of the stuff A lot of clothing here I've made some of it. I've purchased I've gotten to the point now where the clothing that I'm going to be making I'm going to be doing Here I have a great kilt for a Highland Battalion or a Highland regiment I'm going to be putting together a Highland impression so that's what next on my collection list and Also, I'm going to be putting together handsawing a 60th Royal Americans uniforms for when I go up to Green Bay and interpret a heritage hill as Garels James Garels Garrison He was the commander of that Garrison and he was from Maryland So I've got a few of my other items here One people I was like to see is the the firelock or musket. This is a light infantry carving It's a carving because it's smaller and caliber than the 75 caliber brown vests And it's shorter than the 46 inch barrel brown vests at 42 inches And 65 caliber. So this is a Lighter shorter weapon than most of the burst soldiers carried. This is what the light infantrymen carried so a lot of people like to see that it uses a flintlock mechanism to fire where the flint would strike the hammer and setting off the spark and laying out the gunpowder and eventually ejecting a projectile so I've got a whole bunch of stuff here I could talk for hours on hours about everything, but pretty much the rundown of our collection and And we're just we're happy to be here and show it off for the historical society My name is Augie Margenau. I just turned 79 Which if you do the math means I was born in 1939 and growing up in the 40s and 50s There was a lot of great radio shows on before TV and then the advantage of radio You only needed one sponsor for the show not 13 like you have now for the TV because the needs of the show were very limited and you could have people sitting around the table reading scripts and They would paint a picture in your mind and in reality if you look at you know the imagination You know your mind it was all you could be in color you could ride with their own ranger You could ride with a green hornet and just put yourself into that imaginary world that they were projecting for you now One of the other things that I was going to talk about is Just in modern day now We have Bob Yooker who broadcasts the brewers games and he paints you a picture of what's going on on the ball field And what one is a ground ball one is a double play a pop-up But Bob Yooker could tell you that right now there's a pink elephant Sitting on second base and in your mind you could picture that pink elephant on second base By the magic of using the radio okay now I was the other things I was going to talk about is Some of the tapes I brought along were mainly radio heroes the good guys always won I'm a big Lone Ranger fan. I still am I've got a lot of Lone Ranger collection. I designed this shirt There was a lot of jewelry that was being passed out for kids. What would Jesus do? So I got to say well, what would the Lone Ranger do? So I went down to Uzburg had some some shirts made like this and I want everybody to know that that I'm a Lone Ranger fan now One of the things I when I talk about radios I would help some of the kids at James Madison school when I was with a lunch buddy there through the big brothers program And I would teach these kids about sound effects And I had two examples and I'll try to do one today for you And it had one had to do with a Western story where the cattle were disappearing And he just didn't know what to do. So they sent out sheriff Mike now in the radio shows You had to have a partner with you to talk so you could set the scenario right? We're going to that mountain or let's camp by this stream But and sometimes the main character only had his horse to talk to so he would talk that they were trade They were trailing this looking for these cattle and he said well, you know and they would have a sound effect I'll see if I can pick it up here with these with cups And in your mind you had that picture of a horse and then he'd be slow to horse down and tell the horse Well, we're gonna stop at this cabin in the woods and he looked at there the cabin is but it's got a light on and he said well I shouldn't have a light on I'm gonna investigate So he'd walk through the snow and to make sound for snow if you take a box of cornstarch I don't know if you can pick this up, but you squeeze it I'll try a little harder here And that would be the sound going through the snow and in your picture He's walking through the snow when he got to the cabin Inside the cabin now there's a big hydraulic cylinder painted blue. There's steam coming out of it There's a fire and low and it's tied There's a rope to it and in your mind that thing actually took place and they would bring the cattle in the doors And they were wondering what they're gonna do with the cattle and that big hydraulic machine Well, they put the tie a cattle Tail tied to the rope on the hydraulic machine and then what they would do To make a sound effect. They say they started turning the cattle inside out and to make that sound They use this with this balloon So they could take it and put in a truck and leave the area now that's one example The other one was an early radio They didn't have the ability to broadcast baseball like they do now Whoever broadcasted say in New York They would put it on a tape and they would send it through a wire And then they would have a printer like a ticker tape thing and you'd have an announcer And he would have a machine here with a crowd noise that he could make it loud and soft Depending on what was going on in the game and he would have a bat and a little ball or something to hit it With the signifying a hit. Well, let's say The game in New York the Home team is down by eight or ten runs in the last of the ninth Now who's gonna listen to the end of the game? They might as well go cut the grass or do something else But they had an obligation to keep the people interested because whoever was was Advertising that game like somebody's mom's apple pie or razor blades They had to change the story to make it enhance it to make it a little more exciting So let's say the bottom of the night first guy up address. Well, he flew out the right Okay, now the right fielders name was short so he could say okay Thompson hit the ball and Schwartz is under it. He's got it. That wasn't a very exciting So he could jazz it up a little bit in the first pitch and he hit the bat and go thwink And if they hope there's a long drive in the right field going back back Schwartz is guarding up. He hit the wall and he's crumpled around. He's laying on the ground He's hurt and here come this the trainers out to check on him And they're working on or giving artificial artificial respiration and People are listening to this see and finally to say I see his foot is moving. He's he's standing up And the ball is in his glove And so they jazz it up and now people are going to listen to that game the rest of the time And and help the sponsor now other things that I have here, you know, all the heroes they're radio heroes But there's something like a little bit of history on world war two on d-day That was a secret operation by the military And so they didn't give out anything but there were home broadcasts on what was going on in germany because People were intercepting or listening to the german radio show and they were telling people a paratrooper is landing here Or there's landing in france and to do things so they got we got the the information for broadcasting in the states From the german radio itself Now a lot of those shows trans transcribed Are transformed themselves into television But again, if anyone you got you got a big stage at a big set whereas before It was imagination and I think it helped us because as kids We could come home from school. It was dark outside at 4 30 And we could ride with the lone ranger or ride with the green hornet And one of the things in school we would learn history of the united states But if you if you listen to the to the radio shows you find out The lone ranger's real name was was john and he uh, let's see john reed And when he was ambushed by the cavendish gang and everybody was killed except him Tonto found him and says you lone ranger now. So now he was the lone ranger But he had a nephew named dan who was coming west with his mother His mother was killed in an indian attack. So now dan is all alone But he was adopted by a woman named grandma frisbee And the lone ranger runs into grandma frisbee and finds out she's got his nephew there Well, the nephew dan reed as he grows up becomes a newspaper editor and has a son named brit reed And brit reed was the lone ranger's great nephew But he was the green hornet. So he started out with the lone ranger Who had a native american as a partner wore a mask his great nephew Was the green hornet wore a mask and had a partner named kato who was japanese until December 7th 1941 when the japanese attacked pearl harbour then all of a sudden kato became a filipino So there's fun and lurking up the history of this and you know, you can put a puzzle together The tv doesn't suck up all your attention You can you can put a model airplane together and Talk with other people and listen to the radio and it was a fantastic era and that there are some radios Shows locally that will play them particularly but It's a part of my life and I can't let go Thank you Fred bedke and here from the museum and I thought I'd bring in some of the more interesting parts of the schlitz collection that I have I do have the signs and the bottles and the cans and everything but I think everybody have seen those So I thought this is a little uh Kind of the trinkets that a lot of people don't see I've got advertising from the 30s 40s 50s Some of the stuff in the case. I've got badges security badges. I've got badges for the employees Uh schlitz dictionary and they also schlitz made a Atlas and the reason they made their atlases that they could show everybody where they had all their plants They even had a plant in pakistan at one time But kind of as we kind of go down through the table. I've got the the old steel can opener from the from the early 60s various tap handles A lot of different advertising But this is some stuff now that people don't see it. It's a schlitz coffee maker. It's a schlitz popcorn maker A couple of little interesting robot trinkets that are made out of schlitz cans More advertising. We've got a schlitz can from pakistan Cigarette lighter there's a bunch of lighters at the cabinet the anniversary stein for 125th anniversary And if you were a really good distributor then they They would give you the Uh, it's actually a globe But it was brandy in there doesn't it never they never said who made the brandy, but You had to be a really good distributor to get that This is a big stein that was made into a bank Erlinger that was one of their premium beers that they decided that they were going to try and make a premium beer But they decided they went back to just the schlitz One of the original Tappers now this isn't doesn't go on the bottle. It actually goes in the bar and it's Right right around 1900s Got a Got a picture here of an astronaut me with an astronaut. I wanted to have him hold a schlitz can but he couldn't do it Uh A couple different pictures more advertising stuff a lot of different steins and again Majority of the steins and stuff and bottles. I didn't bring along. We've got blob top bottles pre this this is probably like 1880 And we've got other bottles here with it with the stopper still in them again 1800s We've got this picture would be where you'd come in with a On a stage culture a wagon or whatever and you'd want beer up in your hotel room That's how they'd bring it up The uh anniversary class from the chicago fire And as a matter of fact the chicago fire when they did have the chicago fire Joseph schlitz says I want you to take every wagon we got and fill it up with beer and water take it to chicago And they I don't know how many how much beer they did truck But a lot of beer and a lot of water And when chicago started building itself back up That's how the they got the slogan the beer that made milwaukee famous and that's that's what I really got your foothold in illinois uh schlitz lava lamp and all kinds of advertising but again, it's uh, this is the stuff that A lot of the people don't see that the schlitz uniform all the different shirts More and I have no idea what language this is But uh, we kind of put it next to each other you can see the difference, but there's a quilt There's a wastebasket. There's a hook a hooking rug different caps This particular hawaiian shirt is a real hawaiian shirt And that schlitz made when they opened their plant in hawaii. They had all of these schlitz hawaiian shirts made for schlitz So it is an original hawaiian shirt Brought worse days 1962 everybody anybody that knows sheboygan remembers brought worse days probably not the end of it But the beginning of the day but uh So yeah, like I say everything else is just Trinkets that people normally wouldn't see and I thought well, I'll bring along and share