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Many housewives take for when food was stored at granted the conveniences that home and groceries were sold are in modern kitchens. unwrapped. Households had History shows that in the past different beaters, paddles, and it took a lot of work and a lot bats , some of them known as of time to put out a meal. beetles, for purposes from Old or historic kitchen tenderizing meat to working utensils go by various names butter to beating the dirt out from “culinary antiques” to of clothes. Simple wooden “vintage kitchenalia”. boards, stirring sticks and Whether they’re ancient or large spoons had a wide mid-20th century “retro”, range of uses. almost all old food There are many other preparation, serving, and gadgets that make the kitchen storage items appeal to some pleasant and take some of the collector somewhere. misery out of cooking. It is Many objects are easy to interesting to look around and identify but not all. It’s not realize that many of the items always clear if a simple box people take for granted were or pot or implement had a blessings and/or lifesavers to particular name or a the homemakers who came particular use. A collection of before.¢ jars and boxes was needed 4 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 AMERICANAMERICAN ANTIQUITIESANTIQUITIES EVENTSEVENTS CALENDCALENDARAR
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Cookbook Collection Visit These by Cheryl M. Keyser Visit These Since the time that the first on cooking.” man tossed a piece of raw But, Schnebly’s interest in meat by accident into a smol- acquiring cookbooks did not AMERICAN HERITAGE dering fire, fished it out with arise from the actual practice a stick and ate it, is about as of cooking. “I had collected long as recipes have been de- children’s books for many DESTINATIONS veloped. (His wife probably years, but as the market INDIANA New Paris . . . Page 20 told him to use a leaf to mop changed, I looked for another Newark . . . Page 18 up the juices.) Aurora . . . Page 10 area. I started collecting cook- Piqua . . . Page 20 Over time, just about every books in the ’70s when a book Cambridge City . . . Page 10 Plain City . . . Page 18 civilization has developed its dealer suggested that I buy an Centerville . . . Page 10 Pomeroy . . . Page 18 own manner of cooking food, 1850s book of mid-western Mitchell . . . Page 10 Portsmouth . . . Page 18 for instance, pasta in Italy. recipes.” He was hooked. Paoli . . . Page 9 Powell . . . Page 21 Now we refer to these as na- Schnebly also was an excel- Union City . . . Page 10 tional recipes. and, just as lent collector, given his profes- Ripley . . . Page 20 writing developed, the man- sional background. “Each Seville . . . Page 19 ner of food preparation, also item has been described on an KENTUCKY Springfield . . . Page 20 did, as each generation wrote 3x5 card with a bibliographic Glendale . . . Page 12 Steubenville . . . Page 22 down how to prepare their citation as to resources. Each Urbana . . . Page 21 favorite meals. also has a summary of content MICHIGAN Utica . . . Page 18 According to scholars, the and/or significance in the Allen . . . Page 16 earliest recipes came from an- context of cookbook history Wapakoneta . . . Page 17 cient Mesopotamia, where from 1815 to the 1950’s and Blissfield … Page 17 West Liberty . . . Page 21 they were found on three beyond,” explained Schnebly. Brooklyn . . . Page 16 Westerville . . . Page 18 Akkadian tablets dating from Schnebly’s collection is con- Jonesville . . . Page 16 Zanesville . . . Page 22 1700 B.C. sidered to be in a class with Lake Odessa . . . Page 16 The earliest collection of other major public collections Saginaw . . . Page 15 PENNSYLVANIA recipes comes from Europe. in the country, such as the Li- Ypsilanti . . . Page 17 “de re coguinaria,” for in- brary of Congress and the Canonsburg . . . Page 23 stance, was written in Latin, American Antiquarian Soci- and attributed to Marcus ety. One curator called it OHIO TENNESSEE Gavius Apicius. As time went “among the largest, most Barnesville . . . Page 22 Chattanooga . . . Page 25 on, various collections were unique collections, specifi- Bellefontaine . . . Page 20 also found in Arabic, Chinese, cally dedicated to one sub- Chardon . . . Page 19 WEST VIRGINIA German, and Catalan. ject.” Chillicothe . . . Page 18 Huntington . . . Page 26 Over time, the various ingre- Just to whet your taste Georgetown . . . Page 20 Nitro . . . Page 26 dients and methods of food (sorry), from the early Ameri- Hartville . . . Page 19 Wheeling . . . Page 25 preparation began to be col- can section of the collection Lewisburg . . . Page 20 lected, leading to a standard- there is “A New System of Mansfield . . . Page 21 ized list of elements to match Domestic Cookery, Formed Medina . . . Page 19 WYOMING the various tastes of about ev- Upon the Principles of Gillette . . . Page 26 ery nationality - a recipe. Economy and Adapted to the Mt. Victory . . . Page 17 Michael Schnebly, a retired use of Private Families library media specialist from Throughout the United www.AmericanAntiquities.com/AmericanHeritageDestination.html the Washington County, Md. States,” by A Lady, to “The School System, and his Blue Grass Cook Book” and mother, Elizabeth, both loved “The Belgian Relief Cook cookbook printed in America Beecher (1800-1878), whose remedies, how to clean kid to cook and watch cooking Book, by Mary Archer. (This by William Parks of sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe gloves or preserve brooms. shows, he said. And over the latter was published in Penn- Williamsburg, Va. wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Recipes also included many years, mother and son began sylvania and issued to raise Many others followed, mak- and Sarah Tyson Rorer (1849- foods that the modern cook to collect cookbooks on their funds to help the Belgians in ing this subject probably one 1937). would be (sic) unfamiliar own, an assemblage that now World War 1.) The collection of the largest genres of the Many of these early cook- with, such as walnut ketchup, runs over 700 titles. covers from the earliest cook- publishing industry. By the books were more than just a oyster mouth soup, mirror “My mother was a wonder- book published in the mid- 19th century, several Ameri- collection of recipes (or recipts, pudding, and Idaho miner’s ful cook,” said Schnebly. The 1700s to the 20th century. It can women came into promi- as they were also called), but bread. two were especially intrigued (sic) represents an astounding nence, referred to as “the great also provided information on One of the most notable by food preparation. “We re- history of the best in the area ladies of Cuisine” = Eliza what were called “the domes- among the collection is the ceived all the cooking maga- of cooking in this country, Leslie (1787-1879), Sarah Jo- tic arts,” basically housekeep- Fannie Farmer Cookbook. zines, reviewed the food sec- starting with a very good fac- seph Hale (1788-1879) who ing chores, which could range Farmer was a student and later tions in newspapers, and simile copy of an 1742 publi- also wrote “Mary Had A Little from how to buy and store Principal of the Boston Cook- watched television programs cation believed to be the first Lamb,” Caterine Esther food, to making home health SEE “KEYSER” Page 10 6 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 STATES, CITIES, REGIONS AND PAGE NUMBERS
Shepherdsville HEARTLAND 12 CALIFORNIA INDIANA Sturgis LAKE 14 MARYLAND
CITY REGION PG
Funkstown WESTERN 15 MICHIGAN
CITY REGION PG
Angola NORTH 11 CITY REGION PG Aurora SOUTH CENTRAL 10 Signal Hill SOUTHERN 9 Cambridge City EAST 10 Centerville EAST 10 Huntingburg SOUTH 9 Madison SOUTH CENTRAL 10 Mitchell SOUTH CENTRAL 10 Paoli SOUTH 9 Shelbyville CENTRAL 12 Union City EAST 10 KENTUCKY
CITY REGION PG
Allen CENTRAL 16 CITY REGION PG Belleville SOUTHEAST 17 Blissfield SOUTHEAST 17 Burlington RIVER 13 Brooklyn CENTRAL 16 Florence RIVER 13 Coldwater CENTRAL 16 Frankfort HEARTLAND 12 Jonesville CENTRAL 16 Glendale HEARLAND 12 Kalamazoo WEST 15 Lexington HEARTLAND 12 Lake Odessa CENTRAL 16 Louisville HEARTLAND 12 Marshall CENTRAL 16 Maysville RIVER 13 Monroe SOUTHEAST 17 Russell HIGHLANDS 14 Royal Oak SOUTHEAST 17 Shelbyville HEARTLAND 12 Saginaw FLINT/TRI CITIES 15 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 7 STATES, CITIES, REGIONS AND PAGE NUMBERS
Sterling Heights SOUTHEAST 17 Parkman NORTHEAST 19 Williamston CENTRAL 16 Pataskala SOUTH CENTRAL 18 WEST VIRGINIA Ypsilanti SOUTHEAST 17 Plain City SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Piqua SOUTHWEST 20 Pomeroy SOUTH CENTRAL 18 OHIO Portsmouth SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Powell NORTH CENTRAL 21 Reading SOUTHWEST 20 Ripley SOUTHWEST 20 Ross SOUTHWEST 20 Seville NORTHEAST 19 Sharon Center NORTHEAST 19 Springfield SOUTHWEST 20 Steubenville SOUTHEAST 22 Strasburg SOUTHEAST 22 Toledo NORTHWEST 17 Troy SOUTHWEST 21 Urbana SOUTHWEST 21 Utica SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Wapakoneta NORTHWEST 17 Waynesville SOUTHWEST 21 CITY REGION PG West Liberty SOUTHWEST 21 Westerville SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Huntington METRO VALLEY 26 Zanesville SOUTHEAST 22 Nitro METRO VALLEY 26 Parkersburg MID OHIO VALLEY 26 South Charleston METRO VALLEY 26 Wheeling NORTH PANHANDLE 25 PENNSYLVANIA CITY REGION PG WYOMING
Avon NORTH CENTRAL 21 Barnesville SOUTHEAST 22 Bellefontaine SOUTHWEST 20 Berlin NORTHEAST 19 Cairo NORTHEAST 19 Cambridge SOUTHEAST 22 Carrollton SOUTHEAST 22 Chardon NORTHEAST 19 Chillicothe SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Cincinnati SOUTHWEST 20 Cleveland NORTHEAST 19 CITY REGION PG Columbus SOUTH CENTRAL 18 CITY REGION PG Fairfield SOUTHWEST 20 Canonsburg PITTSBURGH 23 Findlay NORTHWEST 17 Carlisle PA DUTCH 23 Gillette NORTHEAST 26 Georgetown SOUTHWEST 20 Heidelberg PITTSBURGH 23 Hanoverton NORTHEAST 19 Hartville NORTHEAST 19 Lakewood NORTHEAST 19 Lancaster SOUTH CENTRAL 18 TENNESSEE Lebanon SOUTHWEST 20 Lewisburg SOUTHWEST 20 London SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Mansfield NORTH CENTRAL 21 Marietta SOUTHEAST 22 Medina NORTHEAST 19 Milan NORTH CENTRAL 21 Montpelier NORTHWEST 17 CITY REGION PG Mt. Victory NORTHWEST 17 New Paris SOUTHWEST 20 Chattanooga SOUTHEAST 25 Newark SOUTH CENTRAL 18 Sevierville EAST 25 Oregonia SOUTHWEST 20 8 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 Living in the Past and the Present while Planning for the Future By Margaret Piatt
Everyone who writes a in the field of history, I am called Piatt Castle Mac-A- original dining areas trying called the lodge that stands history is affected by the time fascinated by the relationship Cheek, my childhood home not to make too much noise as next to the second Piatt family had been open to the public my parents and tour guides castle, Mac-O-Chee. Built as for thirty nine years before I led the public through other a home for Abram Piatt’s older was born in 1951. My father rooms. I spent my brother Donn and his wife and uncle, William and James adolescence giving tours to the Ella Kirby Piatt, Mac-O-Chee Piatt, were already third public. I discovered that I is a stately dwelling finished generation family members to enjoyed the public more than in 1881 with conveniences give tours of the home their I enjoyed history which led me like indoor bathrooms. Only great-grandfather, Abram to study education and the back of the house was Sanders Piatt, built of theatre. Together, these occupied after 1900 so little limestone from a small quarry disciplines led me back to modernization occurred. on the family farm. The floor history as a costumed Consequently, the modern to ceiling panels of oak and interpreter and museum home built during the walnut shaped in gothic teacher at Old Sturbridge Industrial Revolution was arches came from trees Village in Massachusetts. regarded a century later as an growing before Abram’s There I learned to recognize astonishing example of parents, Benjamin and the importance of primary untouched architecture and Elizabeth Piatt, moved their sources in engaging attention. domestic spaces. family to Logan County from I also came to appreciate the My uncle and father with my Cincinnati in 1828. Those messages embedded in every mother, Frances Monahan trees that decorated the walls piece of material culture. Piatt, purchased Mac-O-Chee in which they live. Even between the past and the and the parquet floors were Finally, I discovered that the in 1956 and operated Piatt esteemed scholars, who present. Perhaps I came by processed in the family past is always projected and Castles through the effectively create a narrative this naturally having spent sawmill, managed for some understood through the lens remainder of their lives. My culled from thousands of my childhood living in the time by my great-grandfather, of the present. brother followed suit as did I primary sources and carry the back rooms of an 1871 William McCoy Piatt, who At present, I am living again when his death in 1990 left it standards of historiography, limestone mansion in West began the touring program by in the very rooms where I was in my care. With sadness, my cannot escape the influence of Liberty, Ohio. 1912. raised. My husband, James family decided to sell both the the present. How could they? Named Mac-A-Cheek, I spent my early childhood White, and I relocated in lodge and Mac-O-Chee in Why should they? As a career sometimes referenced as, “the with my brother Bill, in the December 2019 after living for October 2019 after we faced museum educator, primarily chateau,” and ultimately back rooms including the twenty years in a house we SEE “PIATT” Page 26 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 9 An Antique That Lasts a Lifetime by Bob Brooke While other antiques may and guarded it as a prized “reactive.” Acidic foods, such last as long or longer as a cast- possession. as vinegar, tomatoes, and cit- iron skillet, few can be used While weight was certainly rus, re-acted with the iron and regularly and still retain their a disadvantage, weight was changed the flavor and color value. also associated with some of of whatever the cook was pre- Cast-iron skillets have been cast-iron cookware’s most paring. The solution seemed around since 1642. The first important advantages. When to be to season the it. A non- one made, a small, three- a heavy cast-iron skillet stick surface wasn’t natural to cast iron. It had to be created by seasoning or curing the piece. A cook would repeat- edly coat a pot’s inside sur- face with animal fat and place the utensil in a 250- to 300- degree oven for two to three hours. After wiping away any excess fat, he or she would lightly rinse it with hot water, using no soap, then thor- oughly dry and store it in a dry place. Many people never SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ever put a used piece under water. SIGNAL HILL By the 1840s, open hearth cooking had been replaced by Long Beach Antique Mall II Serving a large family was easy with this cast-iron cornbread the cast-iron stove which en- (AM) muffin pan. closed the fire in iron and 1851 Freeman Ave. 562-498-3500 shielded the cook from an www.longbeachantiquemall.com legged covered pot that held reached a cooking tempera- open flame. Cooks placed one quart came from a ture, its mass retained and their pots directly on solid iron foundry in Saugus, Massa- spread heat evenly over the plates—not open grates—that chusetts. It weighed 2 1/4 entire cooking surface. There formed the top of the stove. In later models, foundries cut deep holes into the top and made the iron plates remov- able. With this innovation, a pot could be placed into the SOUTH INDIANA hole for a snug fit and was as close as possible to the flame. Stove manufacturers found it to their advantage to add a line of cast-iron cookware that perfectly fit the removable iron plates or “eyes” of their stoves. By the mid-19th-century, foundries that made cast-iron Cooks and housewives used these Griswold Dutch ovens to cook stoves also made cast-iron soups and stews in open-hearth fireplaces. cookware— also called hol- PAOLI lowware. The Selden broth- An American Heritage Destination ers, John and Samuel, oper- HUNTINGBURG pounds, so the lady of the were no “hot spots” to cast ated a foundry in Erie, Penn- house probably developed iron and, when a cook added sylvania, where they manu- Downtown Emporium (AM) some pretty hefty biceps. The a metal lid, food could be kept factured butt hinges and other 407 E. 4th St. cook on the Lewis and Clark warm for the duration of the household hardware. In 812-683-0123 Expedition not only cooked meal. 1863, they added cast-iron with cast-iron pots but However, cookware made of cookware to their expanding brought them along as gifts to cast iron was brittle, prone to product line. Because of the the Indians. Back then, cast- rust, grainy, unfinished and areas widely known found- iron cookware had great difficult, if not impossible, to ries, they marked their earli- value, so people took care of it repair if cracked. 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turing Company produced the story ended in 1957. The “KEYSER” Cont’d From Page 5 over 180 cast-iron items. In- company just couldn’t com- ing School. Due to her poor cluded in the “non-cookware pete. The maker of the world’s health, she did not attend National Road Antique category” were cast-iron ash- finest handmade cast-iron classes there, but also taught Mall (AM) trays, burglar alarms, fire. sets, cookware found itself up in a wheelchair and was es- 39 W. Main St. gas heaters, sadirons, mail- against cheaper, mass-pro- pecially proud of the menus 765-478-9070 / M-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5 boxes, pokers, display racks, she developed for those who shovels, spittoons, sun dials were sick or convalescing and tobacco cutters. They in- from an illness. Her book was “BROOKE” Cont’d From Page 9 quality goods. In the late 19th troduced gas stoves in 1891, one of the most popular in the est skillets, muffin pans, and century, cast iron was often kerosene heaters in 1895, and country until Irma Dutch ovens with one word, made by prisoners. The top of parlor stoves in 1900. Rombauer’s standard, “Joy of “Erie.” the Griswold line was “extra After the Griswold skillet, Cooking,” was published. In 1868, Matthew Griswold finish ware”—cooking uten- the most popular and desir- Of particular interest are the joined the Selden brothers. sils with a polished exterior, able items for collectors are the children’s cookbooks. One Unlike his partners, Griswold a milled interior, and top muffin pans. Their variety is dating from 1877, “Six Little believed in patenting the prod- edges so tight that the connec- astounding with 59 different The mark on the bottom of a Cooks,” presented 297 recipes ucts developed in the foundry. tion between the pan and the types of pans for brownies, Griswold skillet. that children could make in- He patented just about every- lid was a waterproof joint that golf balls, gems, bread and cluding a South-side omelet thing. The name “Selden and even the thinnest knife popovers, among others. And and veal hash. Griswold” appeared on many couldn’t penetrate. they come in over 200 varia- duced, stamped sheet metal Other famous names associ- cookware items shortly after Women noticed the differ- tions for 2, 6, 8, 11, or 12 wares. Purists put the final ated with cookbooks are 1868. At Samuel’s death in ence. Unlike the products square, round or oval muffins Griswold date even earlier. Harry Houdini, in a recipe 1882, Griswold bought out the made by its competitors, pieces in black cast iron, aluminum, The Griswold family ceased volume known as “The Stag remaining family members made by Griswold were thin chrome, or enamel. The rar- their involvement in the com- Cook Book - Written by Men and changed the name of the and lightweight. After centu- est, selling for $1,800 to pany in 1946 when they sold for Men,” and similar ones company to his own. He clev- ries of super heavy pots and $2,500, are the turk head pan, the business to a group of written by well-known erly kept “Erie” on some of pans, Griswold overcame cast circa 1925-1930 (#13), the Elie New York investors. Subse- women, such as Helen Keller, Selden’s most popular pieces, iron’s weight problem. bread pan, circa 1900-1925 quent to the sale, the quality Mary Pickford, and Mrs. but added “Griswold” above Women also noticed the (#26) and the wheat and corn of casting dropped signifi- Herbert Hoover. it. company’s distinctive trade- stick pan, circa 1925 (#2800). cantly. For Schnebly, these are a The Griswold Manufactur- mark. Griswold featured a Although collectors can still Today, the cast-iron skillet form of “historical literature,” ing Company and its prede- cross, a sign of quality, on find new Griswold items to- dominates most Griswold from which a reader can learn cessors produced superior most of its products. Over the day, through its current collections and is nearly al- more about daily life in the cookware in an industry firm’s long history from 1850 owner, General House Wares ways the first piece a new col- time period in which they dominated by inferior, low- to 1957, Griswold Manufac- Corporation of Sidney, Ohio, lector buys.¢ were written.¢ AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 11 NORTH INDIANA
POLITICALPOLITICAL PARADEPARADE 69 80 80 20 Angola by Michael J. McQuillen 6 6 Spring is just around the in Indianapolis for the past 14 Q: A.R. of Cincinnati e- 41 19 30 corner and with that arrival, years, first as a Township mails: Recently my family and even more opportunities to hit Board Member, and most re- I were cleaning out my outdoor antique shows and cently for 12 years as a City- Grandfather’s estate. He was 65 31 flea markets! With this col- County Councillor. As of an accumulator of all kinds of things but not really a collec- tor of anything if that makes 24 sense. When he passed away at 95 years old, he left a house ANGOLA full of items including a 26 inch square Eisenhower pic- A Wild Hare Antique Mall ture campaign scarf that pic- (AM) 401 W. Maumee St. tures his and is a bright red in 260-665-9920 color. Is it rare and what’s the value. A: While that particular scarf or bandanna is not re- good condition in that size are tion to our campaign button ally rare, it is a great vintage going to sell in the $25 - $30 desires. Your question is ac- 1950s campaign piece that range. I will remind you that tually very timely, because as would look great framed on slight variations or very un- of the time of writing this col- any collector’s wall. Average usual designs can sell for umn, eBay has begun to stop retail value - $40. many multiples of that the sales of practically ANY Q: J.E. of Minneapolis, amount – so a picture is al- Police & Fire Badges on their MN writes: Over the years I ways worth a thousand site. For some time there has have purchased a number of been a prohibition on the sell- old political pin-backs as I ing of modern or current was a History Major in school, badges for obvious reasons, I Like Ike fans probably waved scarves like this colorful example at and have always had a fasci- antique and obsolete badges more than one political rally in the 1950s. Retail value - $40. nation with Presidents and were never prohibited, until Politics. Most of the buttons I now. eBay has begun remov- have picture William Jennings ing almost all badges recently, umn, I am beginning my 28th January 1, I became “Joe Citi- Bryan who ran for President citing concerns about their year of writing Political Pa- zen” once again and look for- three times and was never misuse. This is a ridiculous rade and am excited to be con- ward to having more time to elected. I have over 30 of them justification in my opinion as tinuing this fine tradition. On spend on the button side of that measure a little less than I cannot imagine anyone suc- a personal note, in addition to politics! an inch in diameter, and pic- cessfully impersonating an working with political but- As the 2020 Presidential ture him with red, white and Most political collectors office with a 75 year-old tons and other historic col- campaign continues to fire- blue designs of flags and ban- wouldn’t be overly excited about badge. So, long story short up, there has been a notice- ners. A few have silver back- this Indianapolis City-County there is one less venue for the Council campaign button. able influx of new political grounds as well. Do you need selling of badges in our world Especially since the candidate collectors entering the market. to see pictures or are these all did not win this year! Retail of collecting. This is a trend that happens worth about the same value – about a buck! every four years as campaign amount? Thanks! Michael McQuillen has been a fever affects our nation. Po- A: Bryan is a fascinating full-time dealer, collector and litical campaign debates, ral- candidate to collect as many words. expert in the field of Political lies, fundraisers and other of the items produced for his Q: B.C. emails: Hi Americana for 30 years. His col- events will see the production campaigns were made during Michael! You always write umn Political Parade has ap- of countless buttons and items the Golden Years of campaign about campaign buttons but I peared regularly in a number of for all of our favorite politicals buttons. A lot of factors go seem to remember you men- antique & collectible publications William Jennings Bryan ran and hopefuls and we move into valuing buttons, like con- tioning Police & Fire Badges since 1992. He invites readers unsuccessfully for President towards finding out who will dition, scarcity and desirabil- in the past. Are badges cross- to write or email with any ques- three times. Small 1” picture the “finalists” for the Novem- ity. Buttons made in small over items for political collec- tions or suggestions. campaign buttons like this ber 2020 election. Please feel quantities for special events tors? Am I correct that you col- Michael J. McQuillen can be one sell for around $25 in great shape. free to keep me posted on neat are going to sell for more that lect those as well? reached by writing him directly and notable items you find as mass produced buttons for A: Thanks B.C. What a at P. O. Box 50022, Indianapo- the year progresses and I will example. Keeping all of that great time to ask me that ques- lis, Indiana 46250-0022, e-mail: lectibles professionally over picture some of them in future in mind, however, I will tell tion. Yes, I as well as many [email protected] or that time, I have had the honor columns. Have fun collecting! you that the more common other political collectors like through his web-site: to serve as an elected official On to the Mailbag: Bryan picture buttons in very public safety badges in addi- www.PoliticalParade.com¢ 12 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020
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Every American kitchen had ored handle, it’s very similar SHELBYVILLE a least some of these handy- to the one-handed eggbeater LEXINGTON dandy doodads. Each uten- that worked with an up-and- Paisley Pig Antiques(AM) sil had one use, so house- down motion, similar to a top, Meadowthorpe Antique Mall 528 Main St. (AD) 502-633-7506 wives had to buy a large num- created in 1909 by Benjamin 1455 Leestown Rd. ber of them to take care of all T. Ash and Edward H. 859-255-2607 the tasks a typical kitchen re- Johnson of upstate New York. Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5 quired. And, yes, some of It puts a new spin on the old them may be somewhat valu- saying, “What goes around able—at least the rarer ones. comes around.” These early 20th-century But why the colorful also produced wooden homes. ing aids directly parallels that handles in white, blue, black, Black was the first “color” of the emerging automated or yellow, and sometimes two- used to paint wooden kitchen. Prior to the industrial toned with ivory stripes. handles, then white, just prior revolution, agateware offered All these utensils—from to 1920. It wasn’t until the food mincers, pitters, and cor- ers to spiral whisks, ice picks, and jar lifters—eased even the most basic of the housewife’s culinary chores. Ingenious kitchen gadgets made exact- ing tasks—such as defining the outer edges of a piecrust with a pie crimper—a plea- sure. Colored handles only added to their attraction. Kitchen gadgets, from spoons to mashers, were originally all-wood, simply Cookie cutters from the 1950s. carved, and shaped to meet various purposes in the An assortment of wooden and metal kitchen gadgets. kitchen. Pie crimpers are a kitchen gadgets have a strong handles? Brightly painted good example. Whalers often relationship to today’s “As- cooking utensils of the 1920s carved them of whale ivory for late 1920s that other colors lackluster, all-white kitchens seen-on-TV” gadgets, adver- brought the first dab of color their wives and sweethearts began to appear and contin- their only hint of color. tised on many of the retro into American kitchens. back home. By the 20th cen- ued in use through 1950, Kitchenware, dishes, pots, channels. Take the one-hand Apple green led the cutlery tury, makers introduced metal when plastic handles took and other items were also blender. Except for its stream- color wheel, followed by Man- with the wood and a sea of over. plain and unimaginative. lined shape and lack of a col- darin red. But manufacturers new items appeared in The history of colored cook- SEE “KITCHEN” Page 13 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 13
“KITCHEN” Cont’d From Page 12 stead of the traditional white, the “White Enamel Era,” so- Utensils—in their bare steel in bathrooms. The tiles were called by women’s and home- RIVER REGION OF KY frames plated with tin, nickel, a hit—an indication that fashions magazines. Depart- or chrome, and later stainless America applauded merchan- ment stores such as Abraham steel were just as pallid until disers’ efforts to add vibrance & Straus, Macy’s, and color came along. to homes. Houseware manu- Wanamaker’s led the market It happened around 1927. facturers quickly responded. selling utensils and other kitchen paraphernalia in color. Sears Roebuck, Kresge, Spiegel, and F. W. Woolworth—also retailers catering to middle class housewives—offered serving trays, canisters, spice sets, breadboxes, clocks, scales, garbage cans, dishes, and even dustpans to eager home- BURLINGTON FLORENCE makers. The Burlington Antique Kelly's Antiques (AD) Kitchen-tool manufacturing 7610 Dixie Hwy, US 25 S. was widespread in the early Show (AC) 5919 Idlewood Rd., Boone Co. FG 859-371-0303 part of this century. Many 513-922-6847 small businesses produced MAYSVILLE all types of labor-saving de- vices with and without color. Joseph Byrd Brannen & Co. (PF) 145 W. Second St. A collection of vintage kitchen utensils from the 1940s and 1950s. Acme Metal Goods Mfg. Co., of Newark, N.J., and Bromwell 606-564-3642 Wire Goods, in Cincinnati, Competition was everywhere, A color revolution in the Ohio, were only two. toy market, producing its home of their own. The strat- especially in real estate. To kitchen had begun, and it But antiques dealers say the regular kitchen items in min- egy worked. name on utensils that prob- iature, with the same colored A & J was so successful that ably pops up more often than handles, for young girls. The Edward Katzinger, founder of others is A & J Mfg. Co., of half-sized eggbeaters, waffle Ekco, bought the company in Binghamton, N.Y. Colored irons, strainer spoons, and 1929 and moved it to Chicago utensils from A & J are widely rolling pins were exact repli- in 1931. Ekco kept the A & J available at flea markets and antiques shows and shops simply because these prod- ucts proliferated nationally and internationally in the kitchen-cutlery market for about 40 years. Stamped into the tool’s metal, their trade- mark is a diamond shape with the Monogram “A & J” super- imposed on the utensil. A & J began humbly in 1909 in the homes of Benjamin T. Ash and Edward H. Johnson, who lived in rural upstate New York. After creating and marketing their first prod- uct—a one-handed A grouping of kitchen utensils from the 1940s. eggbeater—they added nu- merous other kitchen gadgets with natural wooden handles to their product line. By 1918, cas of the ones Mother em- trademark and line until the A & J had moved to a commer- ployed. Johnson’s intent with 1950s, and sold the toys until cial building and employed the company’s line of 1937. 200 workers who cranked out Mother’s Little Helper So while some of the items A hand wisk from the 1930s. some four million tools annu- Kitchen Tools for Little Cooks advertised on TV today may ally. and Bakers was to familiarize seem futuristic, their purpose A & J was the first to offer future housewives with the A is the same—to make life (sic) attract buyers, builders re- hasn’t let up yet. knives, spatulas, ladles, and & J name so they would buy easier with less work for not sorted to gimmicks such as By the end of the decade, the other items in one package. In the company’s products only mother, but anyone who using pink and blue tiles, in- “Color Craze” had replaced 1923, the company entered the when they grew up and had a cooks.¢ 14 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 HOOSIER SAVES STEPS LAKE REGION OF KY STURGIS early manufacturers of the cabinet. In 1900, the company moved a short distance from Albany, Indiana, to New Castle, Indiana. It began im- proving its manufacturing and distribution process, and was a strong believer in ad- vertising. The company’s product was nationally pro- moted as a step saver, and its popularity led to the term “Hoosier” cabinet becoming a generic term for that style of kitchen cabinet. By 1920, the Hoosier Manufacturing Com- HIGHLANDS pany had sold two million cabinets. Given that there REGION OF KY As print magazines became more colorful and rich, so did the ads for were approximately 20 mil- the Hoosiers! This photo shows a Hoosier being put to good use. lion households in the US at Take note of the papers that were inside the cabinets – most that time, as much as 10% of Hoosiers came with handy measuring guides. homes had Hoosier cabinets made by Hoosier Manufactur- From 1890 to 1930, more eral smaller compartments ing, and an additional un- houses were built in the with doors. known quantity had Hoosier United States than all of the country’s prior years com- bined. Very few homes had built-in kitchen cabinets dur- ing the 19th century, and it was not until the late 1920s that built-in cabinets became a standard kitchen furnishing. Around the 1890s, several furniture manufacturers in Indiana discovered that a stand-alone kitchen cabinet with storage and a workspace was easy to sell. It was a stand-alone kitchen cabinet White Eagle Antiques (AM) on small casters. It was con- RUSSELL 509Bellefonte St. sidered an improved version 606-836-2830 of a baker’s cabinet. A baker’s Antique Junction (AD) www.whiteeagleantiques.com cabinet is a table with one or 440 Bellefonte St. more bins underneath. It has 606-836-3238/836-1289 a small work surface and a shallower upper section on top of the table used for stor- ing bowls, pans, and kitchen utensils. The cabinet expands The majority of Hoosier cabi- supplied, they were equipped on the baker’s cabinet by of- nets are about 48 inches wide with various racks and other fering a pull-out workspace/ by 22 inches deep by 72 inches hardware to hold and orga- shelf and storage for every- high. In addition to their stor- nize spices and various thing a cook would need. The age capacity, they offer about staples. One particularly dis- base section usually has one 40 inches of counter space tinctive item wa s the combi- large compartment with the Loaded with labor and time-saving conveniences, the Hoosier that was not available in the nation flour-bin/sifter, a hop- cabinet was among the earliest design innovations of the modern slide-out shelf covered in standard kitchen of the early per that could be used with- American kitchen. metal that offers more 20th century. A distinctive out having to remove it from workspace, and several draw- feature of the Hoosier cabinet the cabinet. A similar sugar ers to one side. The top por- The Hoosier Manufacturing cabinets made by competing is its many moving parts and bin was also common. Addi- tion is shallower and has sev- Company was one of those companies. accessories. As originally SEE “HOOSIER” Page 15 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 15
turers of the Hoosier style WESTERN MARYLAND cabinet were, Campbell- FLINT TRI-CITIES MI Smith-Ritchie, Coppes Broth- SAGINAW 70 70 ers and Zook, McDougall An American Heritage Destination 68 70 Company and G. I. Sellers and Funkstown 220 40 Sons. Hoosier cabinets 219 40A evolved over the years to in- clude more accessories and in- 50 novations that made life easier for cooks in the kitchen. They peaked in popularity in the FUNKSTOWN 1920s, and declined as homes began to be constructed with Hudson House Antiques (AD) built-in kitchen cabinets and 1 S. High St. counter tops. 301-733-1632 www.hudsonhousegalleries.com Some manufacturers diver- sified into built-in cabinets and kitchen furniture. The “HOOSIER Cont’d From Page 14 facturers also included a Great Depression made sales WEST MICHIGAN tional accessories and inno- cracker jar. Colored glass- vations were added over the ware, ant-proof casters, and KALAMAZOO 131 years. Special glass jars were even ironing boards were in- 31
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more difficult. By 1935, Hoo- sier cabinets were considered “old fashioned.” The two larg- est manufacturers, Hoosier Manufacturing and G. I. Sell- ers and Sons, were closed in 1942 and 1950, respectively. Today, Hoosier cabinets are A child size Hoosier cabinet made by Sellers on display at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis valued by antique collectors. Hoosier cabinets can be found on display in museums manufactured to fit the cabi- novations added later. Later such as the Henry Ford Mu- net and its racks. Original sets models even included cards seum, the Children’s Museum 1924 Remodel Ad of Hoosier glassware con- with reminders for grocery of Indianapolis, and the Ken- sisted of coffee and tea canis- shopping and tips for meal tucky Museum. However, ters, a salt box, and four to planning. Hoosier cabinets are found in with Hoosiers because nostal- ested in reproductions of the eight spice jars. Some manu- Some of the larger manufac- other places too. Numerous gic homeowners want this Hoosier cabinet.¢ 16 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020
retailers around 1931. The use as a hand mixer. The CENTRAL MICHIGAN inaugural model went speed control was also moved through several enhance- to the rear of the unit. COLDWATER ments. Accessories like the In 1935, Sunbeam intro-
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SUNBEAM STANDS THE TEST OF TIME By William Flood
Sunbeam started life in the tric irons. The name “Sun- grinder and juicer were added 1890s as the Chicago Flexible beam” arose from a contest to to expand the machine’s ca- Even looking forlorn like this Model 1, a decades-old Mixmaster can Shaft Company making me- rebrand that burgeoning pabilities. The Mixmaster work like a champ! chanical farm implements like home appliance line. was so popular, that even sheep shears. In the early Introduced in 1930, the during the Depression Sun- twentieth century, the com- Mixmaster was the world’s beam sold hundreds of thou- A three-speed M4J model, in- and a fan in the housing’s pany transitioned to making first mixer featuring two inter- sands of them. troduced around 1933, was front to cool it. There was also household appliances in- locking detachable blades. The Mixmaster M4 series, the first with a handle, allow- a smaller-scale 25-watt, one- cluding a popular line of elec- Attachments like a meat the first sold to the public, hit ing the head to be removed for SEE “SUNBEAM” Page 17 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 17
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Frenchie's Fine Jewelry, Coins Model 5 strutted modernist The jet age Model 10 came twelve speeds. & Stamps (J, AD) elements that would adorn out in 1950 sporting fins and In the 1970s, Mixmasters 15 E. Front St. several later units. Vent open- a new front grille. An adjust- were reengineered, departing 734-242-5840 ings went horizontal, and two ment lever for bowl size was from a heritage of steel bodies color schemes – white, with added to the base and clear (sic) in favor of plastic cases. white bowls and cream, with glass bowls were adopted. Yet, time has proven those jadeite bowls - were offered. This was the first model avail- models to also be long-lasting Model 7 came out just before able in chrome. Model 11 and many are still in use. “SUNBEAM” Cont’d From Page 16 the Model 3, introduced in World War II, the first added popular mid-fifties col- Models with an MM designa- speed children’s version 1936. The front grille was re- Mixmaster featuring a ors like pink and turquoise tion or a “1-” moniker (i.e. 1-7, which offered two mixing done in streamline style, with handle-based beater ejector. and had a round-vented front 1-8) are from that era and fea- bowls and most of the acces- vertical openings, while the Production was halted during grille, a design feature that ture electric cords that detach sories available on the full- patented speed control, the war, then restarted in lasted for more than a decade. from the right side of the body. size mixer. known as the Mix-Finder 1946, and the Model 7 contin- By 1957, an enhanced Model By mid-century, Sunbeam The influence of Art Deco Dial, showed aviation inspi- ued as Sunbeam’s bellwether 12, also available in chrome was a household name and industrial design appeared on ration. Four years later, the product until the 1950s. or popular colors, offered SEE “SUNBEAM” Page 18 18 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020
“SUNBEAM” Cont’s From Page 17 LONDON CHILLICOTHE the Mixmaster brand was ex- An American Heritage Destination SOUTH CENTRAL OH tended to a line of hand mix- Mimi’s Vintage Pickins SOUTH CENTRAL OH ers, starting with a six-speed 5 S. Main St. 614-369-2552 model in 1952. That was hardly a surprise - through-
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LANCASTER a line of toasters - the most stunning was the arced T-9 model from 1939, drawing in- spiration from the New York PORTSMOUTH WESTERVILLE World’s Fair. In the 1960s, the An American Heritage Destination An American Heritage Destination modernist Vista line of appli- ances was introduced which included additional stand mixers, electric can openers, and blenders. Sunbeam also expanded its offerings with acquisitions of several household brands in the latter half of the twentieth century. The Osterizer came under their umbrella with the acquisition of the John Oster Manufacturing Company in Sunbeam’s immortal product turned towards new and thrift stores - or worse - the ances still work like a champ. 1960; and, in the late 1970s, it - so impactful, that in 1998, the cheap, the public lost sight of landfill. Yet, don’t let the cast- And, they’ll still be working was the Crock-Pot with the US Postal Service dedicated a the value of longevity and off stigma fool you; even at 50 when today’s cheap, big-box acquisition of Rival. stamp in its honor. Sadly, as good engineering. Many of or 60 years old, Mixmasters versions are broken and their Yet, the Mixmaster was consumers’ preferences these workhorses ended up in and other Sunbeam appli- warranty expired!¢ AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 19
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“WHO” Cont’d From Page 19 advertising manager. Brothers and Zook is the Originally, the company used longest-continuously- a former furniture 10-5 Mon - Sat (419) 522-0230 operating cabinet manufacturing plant to make www.carrouselantiques.com manufacturer in the United a seed separator used on States. farms. A secondary product, The Hoosier a stand-alone kitchen cabinet, Manufacturing Co. began in sold better than the seed of Albany. Cabinet and was clearly the cabinets that were meant to be Albany, Indiana in the year separator and quickly became In 1903, the company began leader in free-standing built-in to the home. During 1898. The founders were the company’s main product. streamlining its kitchen cabinets. By 1920, two World War II, supplies and glassmaker James McQuinn, Each of the early Hoosier manufacturing process by million had been sold. man-power became scarce. his son Emmett McQuinn, Cabinets was hand–made. using interchangeable During its peak years, the The company was sold and and two business partners The cabinet was similar to a hardware, standardizing its company produced nearly liquidated in 1942. from Muncie, Indiana, John M. baker’s cabinet, with storage products, and using an 700 cabinets per day, and was McDougall was one of the Maring and Thomas Hart. bins below a work space and assembly line. The employee the largest manufacturer of early manufacturers of Maring and Hart served as the a two-door upper section. responsible for these kitchen cabinets in the United Hoosier cabinets. An president and vice president, The company’s Albany innovations, Harry Hall, was States. advertisement from 1919 respectively. The two facility was destroyed by a fire also granted patents related to Free–standing kitchen identified the McDougall as McQuinns ran the business, in 1900. At that time, the innovations for the cabinet cabinets began declining in “the first kitchen cabinet”. with the elder McQuinn as the owners decided to restart in and for a safety apparatus. popularity by 1930, and George McDougall began the plant’s general manager. The New Castle, Indiana, which is In 1916, the company sold Hoosier Manufacturing McDougall Company in younger McQuinn was the located about 25 miles south its one millionth Hoosier responded by making kitchen SEE “WHO” Page 26 22 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 TTTea for Two? Or Two for Tea? MARIETTA SOUTHEAST OH Riverview Antiques (AD) 102 Front St. The US market for tea has play, and because of their 740-373-4068 quadrupled during the last value would never be used for www.riverviewantiques.com twenty-plus years. In fact, ac- their original purpose. But others are less valuable and STEUBENVILLE very easily could be used if one An American Heritage Destination wanted to take advantage of some of the health benefits of tea. The BBC reported that al- though tea contains caffeine, it is rehydrating. According to NBCi a 12 week trial of black tea decreased triglycer- ides by 36%; in 3 months it lowered participants’ LDL levels; tea decreases the risk 1940s begging dog teapot from of Parkinson’s disease, and STRASBURG Pinterest the antioxidants in tea may help protect against a wide cording to the US Tea Asso- ciation, more than half of the American population drinks BARNESVILLE tea on a daily basis now, and An American Heritage Destination according to an article head-
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“PIATT” Cont’s From Page 8 cultures, the arts, and the into less space. Part of the an image of my father, I said birth that let us know this that we could not give the environment. In February, we plan is to open the basement aloud, “I’m sorry that your landscape and dwelling and property the finances it began to cancel or delay which has never been on view parents died in the influenza we are committed to sharing needed for maintenance and events and programs. In and eventually open the epidemic of 1918-1919. I am it with others in ways that restoration. With delight, we March, we realized our April tower. I knew that the winter sorry you were an orphan at foster creativity and engage see that the new owners are opening would be delayed. would not give us enough the age of five, a teen during critical thinking. We want (sic) taking on those needs Every day I look to the future time to do all we hoped to do the Great Depression and people to come here to and we are using the profits and reflect upon the past. The before our opening date. We young adult during World discover, to remember, to from the sale in the present means that all of the have not wasted time but we War II. I know you faced great interact, and to have fun. preservation of Mac-A-Cheek objects including portraits, did stall on some tasks in the uncertainty I’m glad you don’t Our family and staff were Castle. tables, dressers, a bed, and front part of the home until it have to worry about this too. sorry to cancel our seasonal This brings me to the present personal possessions once was warmer. Now, no one can My risk seems so minimal in celebration of Easter games as we face the historical reality belonging to the Piatt family help us there because we are comparison to yours.” I felt including customs from other the Coronavirus (COVID-19) members who lived in Mac-O- “sheltered in place.” better after that conversation countries because the pandemic. Like many, my Chee along with 1910s-1960s Mac-A-Cheek is a pretty with myself about the past and interaction of children awareness has expanded furnishing, appliances, and wonderful place in which to the present. I’m grateful to be playing on the landscape is as over the winter. In January toys from generations who be sheltered. As I walk around able to write this article today welcome as the daffodils that which already seems long lived in Mac-A-Cheek are the warm and less heated because I keep saying to have popped out all around ago, my husband and I located together amidst the sections of the home, I see friends via email and text, “We the lawn. We hope we don’t shuffled boxes and 1870-1910 objects that have objects spanning over 200 should be recording our have to cancel other events in interviewed contractors. Jim been on exhibit for tourists years. I plan exhibit text, sort experiences because this is a 2020, but we know we might. refurbished my uncle’s 1967 since 1912. These include through archival and significant moment in the If we do, we’ll use the time to shop and I organized a full more portraits and business records in my desire history of the world.” What plan ahead so that future season of special events. Kate furnishings, muskets and to write a history of the site as is the point of learning about generations can enjoy this Piatt-Eckert, my daughter military artifacts, antlers, a tourist destination, re- historical significance if you public place which will who works as our dishes, statues, table cloths, organize event schedules can’t recognize it when it include thinking about the communications director wash basins, newspapers, wondering when we actually happens? It is always past. That past will include from Chicago where she is the magazines, a floor to ceiling will reopen. I am not bored or happening and now it is what is happening today. For executive director of Steep library, and a cabinet of even lonely. Meanwhile, my super-happening. now, we will “self-isolate,” so Theatre, rebranded our image. curiosity containing artifacts husband and I spend our I do not wish to become we don’t have to “social We began long range and natural history objects. evenings watching our flat uncomfortably self-aware or distance” in the future. planning with the board of the These many artifacts have screen TV in a room where I ever distanced from the needs Visit www.piattcastles.org or Mac-A-Cheek Foundation for been gathered in the front part saw my first televised of a broader world-wide call 937-465-2821 for updates on the Humanities, a 501(C) (3) of Mac-A-Cheek for winter program on a 12 inch screen society. In addition to health the touring season and special nonprofit organization storage after we closed at the and marveled at the 1960s care, food, shelter, and love; events at Piatt Castle Mac-A- devoted to creating public end of October. Our assistant, television that swiveled on a people need to hope, to plan, Cheek, 10051 Township Road, events, educational Logan Boggs, and I have base. It did not have a remote to imagine, to empathize, and P.O. Box 497, West Liberty, OH experiences, and publications begun to figure out how to control. to share. My family and I 43357 937-465-2821 or email that interconnect life stories, integrate these many objects Yesterday, as I walked past realize that it was the fluke of me at [email protected]¢ 24 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020
years passed, I began to make my own films. Dad once THERE’S GOLD IN YOUR ATTIC again came to my rescue with a single lens 8mm camera. THE COLLECTOR’S COLUMN Unlike the rest of my friends who were lucky to have access to a motion picture camera, I never took movies of vaca- BY: MICHAEL R. HURWITZ tions. Oh, yes, there were the obligatory films of Christmas and special family events; however, the camera wasn’t THE MAGIC OF MOVIES intended for such mundane events. This was the eye that Today we are confronting weekends. Of course, a boy of correct height for a lad of ten. a wooden box that hung could transport the filmmaker the most crisis that our nation, twelve would have much Using some of Mom’s old within the rafters and could into a world so removed and and for that matter, the world more to occupy his time with; draperies we fashioned a cur- be lowered when needed. so different from the day-to- has had to confront in decades the paper route that would tain that actually would open During the live performances, day life in Columbus, Ohio as we deal with the consume a good portion of my and close. Dad mounted spot- the screen could be retracted that to use film for any other Coronavirus and its time immediately after school, lights in the rafters above and and hidden out of sight. To purpose was simply a waste. consequences. Shelter-in- and then there was baseball. we had painted backdrops view even an 8mm movie at a Of course, today I’m thrilled place, social distancing, only Every boy my age played that could be moved, depend- distance projected on an over- that I have the films of those leave home when necessary Little League baseball – that ing on the scene. For, you see, sized white surface gave the family events and, of course, I for food and prescriptions, was simply a necessity. How- the theatre also served as a illusion of being in an actual have wished there had been and, by all means, avoid ever, it was the room in the stage for the production of the theatre and was, in itself, sim- more, however, as a teenager I contact with anyone outside basement that held the most musicals and reviews that my ply neat! Now, the films that I was convinced that only sto- your immediate family. It is fascination for me and would childhood chums and I offered were silent, no sound ries would do. isolation on such a massive begin to shape my life and my would design and perform to projectors, they were simply I can remember how I would scale that our social love of movies. You see this our parents’ delight. Now too expensive and completely shoot the movies; instead of foundations have been rocked little room was designed as a you must remember that in out of reach even for a bud- just your normal pan of my and our intuitive way of life – kids’ theatre, complete with 1957 for mid-western boys to ding Cecil B. DeMille. But the aunt and uncle’s car leaving, socializing with one another stage, curtains, lights, back- be hanging out singing and silent films were wonderful, I would climb on the hood – has been forever changed. drops, carpeting, chairs, and, dancing wasn’t usual by any and they provided many and shoot through the win- Like so many families, we of course, the movie projectors. stretch of the imagination, happy hours and special mo- dow to create the desired ef- have relied on television and It would be the place that however, there we were, the ments throughout my child- fect. I look back on those the platforms that are helped define what I have boys and girls of my rural hood. primitive home movies today available today that allow us come to learn is the core of my neighborhood performing Today I look back on those and wonder if Speilberg to stream videos, movies, and life and the passion that car- whenever we had the oppor- days with warmth and joyous started that way – in point of television series, and, like cell ries me into the second fifty tunity. memories that I treasure. How fact, he did. Now, I’m no phones, I wonder what we years of my life. Gradually I began to acquire rare is it that any adult can Speilberg – far from it – how- did before without these My dad was wonderful in reels of motion pictures. In the reflect on childhood days that ever, my ventures into film- options. They have been a his support and his caring of 50s there were only a couple brought together his friends, making as a teenager look re- lifesaver for our family and a my theatrical proclivities and of places to purchase theatri- his friends’ parents and his spectable even today. I re- device to be able to distance when we moved into our new cal features for home use, and own parents on common member making my version of ourselves from the reality of home in 1957, he agreed to set that was from the Blackhawk ground with a common pur- the classic The Longest Day, the crisis that surrounds us, aside the area in the basement Company in Iowa. (For those pose and memories that are and, in actuality, it was a very even if it is only for a short time. and construct the theatre for readers of a newer generation, filled with happiness and long day indeed. I assembled I began to reflect on the past, me. I couldn’t tell you today this was a time far in advance laughter. I can truly say that my cast and crew early one remembering how television how large it was; I can tell you of the advent of the videotape the tiny room in the basement Saturday morning. It seemed has changed, and especially that it was big enough. I can machines and when many served as a gathering place for that none of the kids minded how movies have evolved, tell you the colors and I can homes were just buying their sheer delight. Throughout my getting up early if a movie was and my thoughts drifted back describe for you the tactile first television. So, to have two life I would think of those days in the works. Well the filming to when I was a boy and I first senses that linger with me to film projectors and actual reels and I would remember, like no began in my parents’ garage. discovered the magic of the this day sixty-three years later. of film that were theatre qual- other memory, the pure hap- It was designed as a bombed- movies. It was in the “new” I can also tell you that that little ity was quite unique.) When I piness that the flicker of light out building somewhere in house, and it was 1957… theatre produced a love of the began to feature the films on that we call movies brought to Europe. The two soldiers are It was always a very special motion pictures and spirited Saturdays, even the adult so many. I have often won- suffering the devastation of place in my parent’s house for my collecting of movie related neighbors would buy tickets. dered if any of those kids, the the bombing and need to me, even though it was lo- memorabilia. That’s right! I sold tickets to playmates that have long dis- move forward. There was cated in the basement and far The stage was built from a the screenings and did a brisk appeared, still remember smoke and debris all over removed from the finer ap- tabletop that had served my business, I might add. those weekends spent in the and, as they make their way pointments of the rest of the father and his father as a cut- Dad had devised a wonder- little theatre in the basement. out of the building, they en- home. I came to spend all my ting surface for their fur busi- ful movie screen. It was sim- I never lost my sense of con- counter enemy fire. extra time there in the eve- ness. Dad designed legs for it ply an oversized white win- nection to movies and to the I had created the smoke and nings and always on the and made sure it was just the dow blind concealed within people that make them. As the SEE “GOLD” Page 29 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 25
“GOLD” Cont’d From Page 28 programs and magazines. 1970s! The greatest single col- the special effects with an as- One of my all-time favorites lection of movie memorabilia NORTHERN sortment of methods. Some was Famous Monsters. It was was owned by actress Debbie were effects that I had pur- devoted to the world of the Reynolds and is on perma- PPPANHANDLE WV chased from professional sup- horror movie and its stars. nent display at what was her ply houses and others that I The pages were filled with ar- hotel and museum in Las Ve- WHEELING ticles about Karloff and gas – The Showboat. There created myself. Located near An American Heritage Destination my house was a spectacular Lugosi. There were stories you’ll find the gown worn by stone quarry with mounds of about the making of horror Marilyn Monroe in the Seven dirt and craters that looked classics such as Frankenstein Year Itch and the ruby red slip- like a war zone. We follow our and Dracula, but my attention pers worn by Judy Garland in two soldiers through this area always turned to the early the Wizard of Oz. Wheeling and onto the fields of battle: films, the films of Lon Chaney Now most of these items are 70 snipers in trees and enemy all and the great German direc- simply out of the reach of most 250 around. They finally end up tors. collectors, however, occasion- on a train trestle as night is Within the pages you could ally you will find an auction 2 falling and we glimpse a lo- find advertisements for vari- of items that were used in the comotive approaching as our ous products. There were the production of a current mo- two heroes jump aboard and rubber masks and the records tion picture appear for sale ride into the sunset. Amaz- of horror sound effects. I was and at times at an affordable Centre Market Square (AS) ing! The film took literally all attracted to the ads that of- price. Somehow, as collectors, 2200 Market St. day, and as we arrived back fered the make-up kits and the these collectibles are our con- 304-234-3878 home, we were all summoned vintage movies. To this day I nection to the memory of those (Between 22nd & 23rd Sts.) [email protected] to account for where we had have the make-up kit that I darkened theatres with a been. purchased through the pages flicker of light streaming Coleman's Fish Market (E) Dad wasn’t too pleased with of Famous Monsters and I also down from above and the glo- 2226 Market St. the condition of his garage have the movies. Famous Mon- rious images that appeared 304-232-8510 and I spent the next day clean- sters will fetch a tidy sum for ten feet tall. We were trans- ing it up, but it was all worth certain issues. Certainly, the ported to another place and it. The film was shot in se- first issue is in demand and another time. We were able to quence with the editing done collected, not to mention the lose all sense of time and for- completely in the camera – a items that were sold within its get our troubles. That is what EAST TENNESSEE technique that I would learn, pages. draws us to the movies and many years later in college, From the programs and keeps us coming back for SEVIERVILLE 32 was one of the hardest tasks a magazines, most of us have more. It is also why we collect 75 filmmaker can achieve. When moved on to the lobby cards, the items associated with the 27 Heartland Antiques & Collectibles (AM,G,GL,J) the finished product was re- those display items that her- “flickers”. But I must confess 81 40 1441 Winfield Dunn Pky. turned, I added the titles and alded the upcoming feature, that when I visit the multiplex 40 441 411 and take my seat in the re- 865-429-1791/800-564-5258 ran a tape of the dialogue, (the or to full size movie posters. 75 441Sevierville film was shot without the ben- Both items are highly prized cliner, I can’t help thinking of efit of sound), the sound effects by collectors and can be very my parents’ basement with and even a musical score. pricey. I have attended auc- those metal folding chairs and When we premiered the movie tions of movie posters where the whir of the projector. to the cast and their families it an unusual, or very popular Those movies have met the test was greeted with not only ap- move poster has been sold for of time and the memories of plause but with congratula- tens of thousands of dollars. those Saturdays are the best tions of a job well done. To- The ones that you would “collectible” that I could pos- day I can remember every mo- think of are the ones that com- sibly have. SOUTHEAST ment of that day, all the prob- mand the highest prices; Gone Tonight, sit down with your lems and all the excitement with The Wind, Rebel Without family, turn on TCM or TENNESSEE that making that humble film A Cause, The Maltese Falcon NETFLIX or AMAZON and produced. and Citizen Kane, only to name find one of the old “treasures” I would go on to study film a few. The early silent film from their vaults and turn the CHATTANOOGA in college in New York City posters are in demand as well outside world off, just for a An American Heritage Destination and actually ended up mak- and are known to sell for thou- while. You’ll find that you’re ing a few modest documenta- sands of dollars as well. that kid in the basement laugh- ries and was associated with Then the collector can turn ing, frightened, maybe crying, other film endeavors. I also to the actual items of the mov- but enjoying the magic of the began to collect memorabilia ies, the props and costumes, movies. Please take care of each associated with the movies and in this field the price can other. and follow with great interest reach into serious money. the business that is movie When MGM began to sell off Remember, There’s Gold in memorabilia. I began like its property room and ward- Your Attic. Until next time, many other collectors, with the robe, the prices would set a have fun, and happy small and ordinary items – record, and that was in the hunting.¢ 26 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020
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