| | Awards Banquet - Steve Marks, N.I.A. President
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Two of the National Insulator Association's goals' are to promote the
"insulator story" to the general public; and to educate existing
collectors on various aspects of the hobby.
By having these goals, the NIA hopes
to increase interest in insulator collecting, so that new collectors will be
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| | Insulator Factories -- Part of the Community
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Display by:
Rick Soller
4086 Blackstone Avenue
Gurnee, IL 60031 847-782-8602
com574@clc.cc.il.us
Usually when collectors think of insulator factories, the focus is on the
products they manufacture, not the role the factory has in the community.
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| | 32nd Annual N.I.A. Convention
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| | by Carol McDougald
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July 4th weekend was "sweet tea" time in "hot-Ianta"
...and if your excuse was "kudzu" couldn't come, you missed a great
show!!
Dudley and Sandy Ellis exuded southern hospitality as they and members of the
Dixie Jewels Insulator Club hosted the 2001 Atlanta national show. The Ellises
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| | The People
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"So, if I put it in the sun in AZ, will it turn darker?", Kevin
Jacobson asked Dwayne Anthony.
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| | Hemingray Carnivals
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Display by:
Bob Stahr
11728 Leonardo Drive
Saint John, IN 46373-9448
219-365-4171
bob@hemingray.com
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Color
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| | A History of Show Directories from NIA Conventions
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Display by:
Kevin Lawless
(with anecdotes from the shows!)
3363 Guilderland Avenue, Apt. 3
Schenectady, NY 12306-1820
518-357-2333
kflbostons@aol.com
For all but three of our insulator nationals, a show directory of some sort
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| | "Mr. Blob"
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Display by:
James Doty
2026 Finch Court
Simi Valley, CA 93063-:3720
805-526-4739
cdl02@aol.com
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| | Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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Display by:
Sally Smith
Only the paint brush of an artist could compliment the rainbow of colors
found in the various lightning rod ball patterns with the appropriate, colorful
signage.
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| | Porcelain Spools
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Display by:
Rick Soller
4086 Blackstone Avenue
Gurnee, IL 60031 847-782-8602
com57 4@clc.cc.il.us
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Porcelain
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| | Thomas Edison and General Electric Company
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Display by:
Will Havener
8785 Rosemark Road
Millington, TN
38053
901-829-3511
rsanford@lunaweb.net
What makes this display exceptional is that Will is a first time displayer in
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| | The Early Worm always gets the peaches!
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Atlanta offered collectors a lot of interesting items -- for sale, not for
sale, for trade, or just show and tell.
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| | NO! These are not slag glass insulators!!
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Display by:
Ken Roberts
1304 Huntsville Hills Drive
Huntsville, AL 35802
256-880-1460
kroberts@apprser,com Although they look like insulators, these multi-colored items are actually
automobile ashtrays! They were used in cars during the 1925-1955 era. It is
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| | Radio Antenna Insulators and Lightning Arrestors
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Display by:
Lois Blair
105 State Route 56
London, OH 43140
740-352-3148
A rainbow of color in both the glass and porcelain radio
antenna insulators has been assembled by Lois Blair over a number of years. One
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| | CD Variety in Glass and Porcelain
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Display by:
Ben and Sabine Kelley
714.1 Whitfield Drive
Riverdale, GA
30296-2107
770-997 -5790
WINNER:
Best use of Threaded CDs
in memory of
Jim Overstreet (DJIC)
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| | Color South of the Border
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Display by:
Keith Roloson
6220 Carriage Court
Cumming, GA 30040-9111
770-781-5021
kroloson@mindspring.com
WINNER:
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| | Mickey's World
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Display by:
Alan Stastny
P.O. Box 23
Arcanum, Ohio 453-0023
937-836-4691
fuzzyface42@aol.com
A world of Mickey Mice (CD 257) which includes the back row of 10th
Anniversary N.I.A. (1983) commemoratives in 7-up green, amber, white milkglass,
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| | Men of High Voltage - Elihu Thomson, Edwin Houston & Thomas Edison
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Display by:
Kathleen Edwards
1726 Rogers Road, Mt. Airy, NC 27030
336-351-4850 gladsome@usa.net
Winner:
1st Place N.I.A. General
Milholland Education Award
Best use of
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| | "Kissin' Cousins"
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Display by:
Tom and Alice Moulton
1911 Preservation Drive
Plant City, FL 33567-5745
813-754-1396
corkscru1@aol.com
or amouI01954@aol.com
A perfect match of a couple's collecting interests - jars and insulator's. Beautifully
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| | Spratt's Patent
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Display by:
Glenn Drummond
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Lightning Rod Equipment
Bob and Phoebe Adams Showmanship Award
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| | Variety is the Spice of Life and Insulators are so spicy!!
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Display by:
Scott Pahl
195 Mt. Pisgah Road S.W.
Supply, NC 28462-6307
910-842-9194
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Threaded
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| | Editor's Pick
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Wouldn't you have had a difficult time choosing the winners of the displays?
However, the display that held the theme of the show was one that was not a
winner, except in the exceptional glass and history shared about the glass from
the southern states. Congrats, Jim Meyer.
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| | Insulators of the Confederacy
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Display by:
Doug MacGillvary
79 New Bolton Road
Manchester, CT 06040-3722
860-649-04,77
veryoldmud@home.com
WINNER:
Dr. Fredrick Griffin Memorial Award
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| | A Marriage Of Glass
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Display by:
Steve Schingler
40 Spring Branch Court
Newnan, GA 30265 770-253-7028
sschingler@charter.net
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Go-Withs
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| | Stubby's Insulators
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Display by:
Jimmy Burns
16784 Ardmore
Conroe, TX 77302-5393
936-231-3905
jburns@splendora.k12.lx.us
At age thirteen, during my seventh grade year, I began to collect insulators.
The same year, 1968, I won my friend Stubby for selling the most magazines in my
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| | Insulators Found in the Southern United States
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Display by:
Jim Meyer
3310 State Road 40
Ormond Beach, FL 32174.-2537
hugo1074@aol.com
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Threaded
My display is limited to insulators found in the southern United States.
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| | Brookfields in Clear, Purple, Gray and SCA
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Display by:
James Frustieri
5 Hillside Road
Hackettstown, NJ 07840-4111
908-852-9247
jimf@intergrafix.net
WINNER:
1st Place N.I.A. Specialty
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| | Researching the Road of Colors
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Display by:
Clay Bledsoe, age 7
1140 Ranchero Avenue
Titusville, FL 32780
407-269-7767
WINNER:
1st N.I.A. Junior
Frank Miller of Tulsa, Oklahoma began the National Show glass commemorative
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