Ma Bell's Place

PIG RIDGE GETS A "HELLO GIRL"

When the American Farmers awakened to the value of the telephone, there began a mad rush to spread a spider web of wires throughout the land. 

Though it proved of more value to those agrarians than perhaps any other single appliance, it's ...                    [more]

Foreign Insulators

CAROL AND MARILYN CONDUCT INSULATOR
RESEARCH TRIP ON FOREIGN SOIL
PART IV

After our sojourn in Belgium, our next destination was France. I'm sad to say that for all the great anticipation we had for finding wonderful glass while in that country, our time in France was more disappointing than rewarding. We saw ...                    [more]

"First" Threadless

Being a collector you may have a list of "firsts". Such as, your first insulator (probably a Hemingray 42); your first show ("Look at all the colors!"); your first bargain ("Look what I got for 50 cents!"), etc. My favorite first is finding my first threadless.

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