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SIGNGUY
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January 04, 2007, 09:36:34 am »
Oh Yes... I have stories... I think I've told it a few times on other posts, but the abreviated version is My Great Grandfather had a bottling plant that my grandfather and his brothers worked at, then they bought into the Coca-Cola Franchise right after WWII and opened in Pine City MN. Later they opened 3 more bottling plants and each brother ran one. It was a good business venture for them and they sold all the plants in 1989 to a bigger outfit out of Minneapolis. They're where many stories of items recieved at the plant and what was thrown out. My father worked there from the 60's on and remembers hauling machines to the dump by the truckload when they where taken off routes. Back store rooms "Cleaned" out every year to make room for new advertising items... .and on and on... i managed a few things out of my Grandfathers house...which I'll keep forever...
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January 04, 2007, 10:27:32 am »
As far as the stories, you know what they say about hindsight...
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January 04, 2007, 11:26:03 am »
When I talked with those old timers it was buttons signs used for sleds or
target practice, cardboard signs used for insulation in barns, machines gutted and used for ice boxes... on and on...
I still think that there's got to be a warehouse out there full of stuff just sitting in some small back road town....
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January 04, 2007, 05:31:52 pm »
Good it look too, me think! (sad yoda impression)
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