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Dallas Landers
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Here's your sign

Post by Dallas Landers » Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:46 pm

My cousin thought I needed this sign😁
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Dallas Landers » Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:50 pm

This one is made of cardboard/ paper. The steel wheel reference would suggest some age to it.
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Burger in Spokane » Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:35 am

Having old junk around the place creates a nice ambiance. Signs are always fun,
especially if they are relevant in some way. My Great-Great Grandfather was a
builder and worked with these guys in the late 19th Century to do interior finish
of the places he built.

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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Herb Iffrig » Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:54 am

It's hard for me to make out what the sign says in the first photo.


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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Dallas Landers » Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:14 am

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Tounge in cheek behind my lathe. :D

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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Mark Gregush » Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:46 am

LOL I for one got that! :lol:
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by BE_ZERO_BE » Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:01 pm

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Rest Room Door in my shop. :lol:
 
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Dan Hatch » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:02 pm

Here is one I wish I could find out story on. Saw a picture of one in a1910 Ford Times. That is all I have found on them. Dan
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by TRDxB2 » Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:37 pm

Model T owners, not.
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Burger in Spokane » Sat Mar 20, 2021 2:06 am

One of my favorites, ... a VERY early Bell system sign, from the days
when phones were not in homes and one went to a "station" to place a
call. Telephones were installed in places like pharmacies and general
stores. The business owner operated as an agent of Bell, getting a cut
for doing so. Things were a little different in steam era America.

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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Rich Eagle » Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:35 pm

I was particularly pleased to be gifted with this sign. In the 1960s Tony Douglass was still babbiting engines in Idaho Falls. His shop was dark and dank with brick walls. It was like stepping into the 20s to walk into it. The smell of oil and smoky steel permeated it. Tony could have been a Hobbit with quilted welding hat and wire rimmed glasses. He was all business but fatherly to we youngsters.
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He had played marbles with Rich Bingham's Grandfather in his younger days. We went there often to check on Rich's T engine progress. That babbit is still fine in my Touring car engine. Memories from those days are simply magical today.
I never found out who the Shoe Douglass's were.
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Rich Bingham » Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:40 pm

W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. of Brockton, Massachusetts was one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the world from the 1890s well into the 20th century. W. L. Douglas passed away in 1924 at the age of 79, having established a nationwide chain of shoe stores. Doubtless there was a store in Idaho Falls as well, perhaps close enough to cause some confusion with Douglass Machine & Bearing which Mr. Antone Douglass had established in 1919 ?

Any road, Douglas Shoes had faded before our earliest memories, eh Rich ?
It's great to see that sign, and fun to look into the reason for the reference to the "shoe Douglass" ! :D
"Get a horse !"

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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Rich Eagle » Sun Mar 21, 2021 12:29 pm

Thanks Rich. Perhaps in the location of Hudson Shoe on the other end of the block. Didn't they sell the "Buster Brown's"?
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Rich Bingham » Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:39 pm

Yup ! Hudson's Shoes had a store in Pocatello too, also a corner location. It would be interesting to know if they succeeded a Douglas's Shoe Store. Yup again, they sold Buster Brown shoes. Apparently you can still buy Buster Brown shoes, product of Brown Shoe Co.
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Michael Peternell » Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:59 pm

Got this one at a model T swap in southern Minnesota.
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Re: Here's your sign

Post by Ruxstel24 » Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:01 pm

:P It’s a tough job but somebody’s gotta do it :lol:
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