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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 08:06 pm:

It was supposed to open at noon today. I got there at noon, and the majority had been there a long time. Didn't see much in the way of treasures. Seemed like there were more A parts than T parts. My biggest purchase was a hot dog, because that's all they had for food. First hotdog I've had in a lot of years.

The only thing that tempted me was a South Bend Lathe, dated 1911, in a basket. It was just $150, but I have no room for it.

rdr


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Alex Alongi on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 08:32 pm:

Ralph,
Think you gave me an idea for dinner, There are good hot dogs & bad ones, nothing in between. Thad Drogan, a cartoonist, couldn't spell "Daucshund" sausage & came up with "Hot Dog". which brings up the point what came first the wiener or the dog. Best one's I ever had were at Sear's when they still had a full fountain, where I had one for breakfast the morning my Daughter was born, across the street from the hospital.

Alex


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 09:02 pm:

That must have been Mercy, Alex. But wasn't Sears across 395 from Mercy? I visited my brother after surgery there last year. No, not at Sears.

A Hollyweird person died of food poisoning recently; something about eating a 13 year old wiener.

rdr


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ron Patterson on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 09:05 pm:

Ralph
In 1955-1960 I delivered morning newspapers in the neighborhood surrounding the Riverside Swap Meet.
Alex
I lived in China for many years.
My Chinese friend's told me you couldn't get a hot dog in China because.....................
Ron the Coilman


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Alex Alongi on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 09:21 pm:

Ralph,
That's where I had my first one at about 7, had some great murals. The one I'm talking about was across from Bay General in Chula Vista. 13 years, yea I guess a couple of months past the "sell by" date could cause a problem. I think the only things that have longer shelf life are vienna sausgage, Spam, cheese & paper plates.

Ron,
Thanks, I'd forgotten that one <grn>,

Alex


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Chaffin on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 10:37 pm:

The later stuff always outnumbers the Model T stuff. I found a 1914 steerung column and three late camshafts for regrind, so I was happy, The hot dogs were good but couldn't stay for the spaghetti feed. Saw a lot of old friends from Arizona.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Alex Alongi on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 01:14 am:

Glen,
Totally off thread, but have you ever considered having that Sunkist Sign on your front porch reproduced? Dave told me you found it in the crawl space. The Chula Vista Library has several from the different Lemon growers & sells them as fund raisers.

Alex


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Chaffin on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 03:13 am:

Alex, It would cost a small fortune to reproduce in porcelin but if they want to try we can work something out.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Alex Alongi on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 09:35 am:

Glen,
The Chula Vista library had them reproduced onto paper then framed, until the post war housing boom Chula Vista was the top lemon producer in the world so they have several Sunkist labels. It was probably the same way in Corona with oranges. Agree about the old baked on enamel, which was almost glass, doubt if there's many companies that can still do it.

Alex


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard G Goelz on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 10:58 am:

Cherokee Porcelain in Knoxville,TN can make those signs,they have an ongoing deal to replace all of the signs for the NY transit system,they make panels for old gas stations and panels for the Lustron Homes.
Rick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Chaffin on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 12:22 pm:

Richard, Do you have their address and telephone number? Thanks


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR. on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 01:00 pm:

Doesn't Steve Jelf make porcelain signs?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard G Goelz on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 01:25 pm:

Glen, it is Cherokee Porcelain Enameling Corp.
2717 Independence Ln.
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone 865-637-7833.
The owner is Vicky Corum, unless she changed her name.
Rick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 05:35 pm:

I went to that swapmeet yesterday and today. It was terrible. Very little T stuff there.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Eastwood on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 07:41 pm:

I went to the swap meet and picked up an NOS black carbide generator for my 14. Got it for a good price too! Also picked up a pair of Chevy spindles, the ones that work good on T speedsters.
Pete


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 08:04 pm:

I saw your brother there first thing yesterday, Pete, and he told me he already got all the bargains, so I went home emptyhanded. You mean he was shucking me?

rdr


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Robb on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 08:14 pm:

who's the guy with his finger up his nose?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ray on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 08:53 pm:

I did pretty good. I purchased a working Winfield SR carburetor for $20, and a nice brass Kingston L carburetor for $10. I found both parts buried amongst Model A and hotrod stuff.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Riverside Corona Model T Ford Club on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 02:11 am:

Thank you for helping us promote our swap meet Larry. You must be getting old and feeble as well as blind if you didn't see any Model T parts there!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Scott Gilham on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 10:30 pm:

Heck, I had a good time. Sold lots of small parts and met several wise guys.....with lots of good info/history about parts changes.
I didn't get out much to see parts myself, that'll come later. I needed to thin down what I have.
I even heard a bit of firsthand info about the running of the Montana 500. THAT sounds like a TON of fun.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Chaffin on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 10:39 pm:

Thanks Richard for the info.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kirk Peterson on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:07 pm:

Did the cutoff touring pickup sell? 2 bucks for a high shell seemed reasonable to me.
Had a good time. Walked off a chiledog. Glad to be home in a little cooler weather.

Kirk Peterson
Santa Fe


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By azterry on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 02:33 am:

Hello all,

As far as a fellow Phoenix AZ Model T club member and I are concerned this is a great swap meet. We have attended this swap meet for something approaching 10 years. Unlike in the Phoenix area, the Riverside swap meet has a high percentage of vendors selling mainly Model T parts and cars. In the Phoenix area you are lucky to have one vendor at any of the two major annual automotive swap meets selling mainly Model T parts.

I have also attended the Long Beach Model T Club swap meet for even more years, and I have seen the percentage of vendors selling only Model T parts there decrease as well. They had the other than Model T Ford parts vendors earlier.

Those of you who live in southern CA are spoiled! I costs me over $150 if a friend and I share expenses and a minimum of 10 hours of travel time to go to the closest Model T club sponsored swap meets in CA even if I do not buy anything.

I now have a question. Why should we not allow the other automotive interests or vendors that want to attend our swap meets help support our Model T clubs by allowing them to buy swap spaces?

The best deal I got was with a non T vendor who did not know what a 5Z tool was.

Thank you,
Terry


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Carl on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 08:45 am:

I agree, the non-T vendors often bring T parts that they have not identified. I once found a pair of 1909 rear end housings being used to prop up a vendors table full of odd parts. I paid 50.00 for the pair, and gave him another table to use. As long as the vendors bring stuff from the agreed era, its fine by me.


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