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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," June 2005
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CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the June 2005
Crown Jewels of the Wire magazine. These have been provided by the publisher
for those wishing to see a color rendition of the black and white photos
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| | Collector Profile
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Name?: Joe Egerer, age 68
Occupation?: Retired school teacher
Began Collecting?: 1970
Started?: I found insulators in trees; when I learned people collected them I
began saving them myself.
Favorite insulator? I love them all, but do favor cobalt blues, ambers,
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| | Current Communication Values Amongst International Relationships
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The sun had already risen, but, of course, he knew he would not see it for a
few hours. He was always in the shadow of base P-3112 until around 9:30 A.M.
during this time of the year. However, there was something different in the tone
of the information coming his way. After what had seemed years, it appeared
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| | Insulators Used by the Rogue River Electric Company
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| | Story By Howard Banks Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", June 2005, page 44
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| | The Search
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| | Late on a lazy, autumn afternoon in 1967 school teacher Charles Fox came to
my house all excited with news of a power line running up the side of a mountain
to the Granite Hill Gold Mine near Grants Pass, Oregon.
One of Chuck's fifth-grade students said he had been deer hunting with his
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| | The Western Glass Manufacturing Co.
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| | By Mike Miller and Tom Katonak
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PART I: THE BEGINNINGS
Over the years, several articles on the Denver glass companies operating out
of the Valverde Glass Works have been published in the Crown Jewels of the Wire.
Most recently, we've heard about the R. Good Jr. operation and the Western Flint
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| | Insulator of the Month
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Starring Attraction
Here's a jewel from the collection of teenager Sean Green. Sean collects
"junk
in glass". In this case, an exceptionally large potstone makes this pretty
Star signal a unique insulator. How do "rocks" like this get into the
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