At 8 years old in 1966 I went to work with my dad to relocate his heating air store from one builing to another.I helped them move the toms candy jar and saw the fishtail coca cola calender pad holder on the wall asked if I could move it they said sure,pulled the nail out and took it over to the new building and nailed it back up by the machine.Back in 1971 at 13 years old my dad was a partime pastor of a church in centre alabama and he would go by the church on summer afternoons and I would go out back of the church and fish in the lake(lake Weiss ) one day I saw a spot down the creek where the water went down and there was alot of cans and bottles that were very old .I picked up as many bottles and cans I could and started collecting from there.I started college in 1976 went two years on a baseball scollarship took a summer time job in 1978 as a plumber joined the union went 3 years to plumbing school. 1995 when my dad died I went back to his store and took down the calender pad I had nailed up 27 years before and found the 2 toms jar took them home and put them into my collection. after 34 years in plumbing I am still working out of local 72 in Atlanta GA
