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| | By Caleb Thimell
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"World-Wide Spool Frenzy"
In this issue I want to share my enthusiasm for collecting spools from around
the world. I realize these often maligned and overlooked insulators are smaller
than their cousins and don't carry as heavy a load as their high power cousins.
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| | Insulator Nicknames
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Since the beginning of the insulator hobby, collectors have attached
nicknames to certain shapes (styles) of insulators. The nicknames generally
originated because of a correlation of the shape to another object. In this
column this month, we list some insulator nicknames and their corresponding
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| | INSULATOR TREES (Getting your kicks on Route 66)
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| | by Stan Severi
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Recently my wife Pat and I visited our daughter, Tammy, and her husband,
Steve, and grandchildren in Barstow California. Barstow is not unfamiliar to us
as we spent nine years there raising our children while I worked at the
Goldstone Tracking Facility, where Steve now works. We hadn't been there for
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| | Left Coast Lines
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THE SECOND ANNUAL BIG SKY SWAP MEET
was held on the sprawling Ron Yuhas
compound just outside Helena, Montana. It was co-hosted by the Yuhas family and
Montie McDowell. Ron tells the story best, so I am going to let him take it from
here, "We had an informal show-and-tell at my house on Friday evening,
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| | A Magazine for Collectors
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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," January 2004
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CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the January 2004
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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| | Story Behind Cover Photo
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Richard During says Bob Fredrickson, now 81 and retired from Pacific Tel and
Tel Company, owns the original photo found on this month's cover. The
black-and-white picture was taken around 1960 when Bob was construction foreman
for the demolition of a line in the Fort Lewis, Washington area.
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| | CD 208 California Embossings
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Mike McGuire reports finding what he believes to be a third embossing style
for the CD 208 CALIFORNIA "hot cross bun" insulators.
Collectors have
long observed a difference in the size of the lettering on CALIFORNIA 208's. As
you can see in the bottom picture, the letters are notably taller on the
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| | Featured Collector: Dave Brown
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Well, there is a bit more to the Big Sky Swap Meet story (page 31), but Left
Coast Lines has to wait for future events to catch up with future plans before
we can report on any of it. In order to learn more, Left Coast Lines met with
Dave and Shirley brown at their Exeter, California home in late September. We
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| | Insulator of the Month - HAVING A BLAST!
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Mike Randall says this glower is his favorite insulator. It's a CD 162 H.G.Co
in the (100) embossing style. The "OA" of the word PETTICOAT on the
reverse is embossed over the letters "AT". Mike claims to be a
"100% certified color nut". He collects various CD styles, but in
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