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So a week and a half ago I need to have a construction guy come over and talk about a project. We had gone to high school together. When he shows up he sees a couple pumps I am gutting outside and he says he heard I collected that stuff. We talk about the job and before he leaves he says he knows he has just seen a pump somewhere earlier in week. I give him my number and said call me when you think of it. I know he did not get a couple miles away and he calls and says were at. So that evening me and I
the wife drive up there to check it out. No one was home but the guys sister lives next door and says they are gone for the weekend and gives me his cell number. I give him a call and he says he will call me the next week. Fast forward to last Wednesday and I had not heard from him so I decide to drive up again and see if he is around. He is home and his wife and sister are there, he comes out and says he forgot about calling me back. So we go out and look at the pump and make a deal on it just then his sister walks out and says maybe you want the globe. And I am like what globe. She takes me to an old garage with freezers in it and opens it up and pulls out a blue Standard crown. It is dated 3-42 on bottom and has a crack at base area but will display well. So we go back to house to make a deal with her brother then he says there was a globe for the pump I just bought but it was broken one winter when they were blowing snow. So the sister says I will go and get it it is in the garage. She comes back with a Farmers Coop lens. So a deal is struck. I said I will come back the next night and get the pump. So I go back and get pump and sister has something else for me when I get there. A nice local rocker can I was truly shocked again. I thank them and leave. So I get home from work last night and the wife says you have a letter. It is from the family inside is a picture from 1974 of the family sandbagging with the pump and farmers globe in background. It also states that the gentleman's father bought that pump in 1952 for $75. Sorry about being long winded but thought I would share a cool story. Thanks Les.

Nice: friend, family, story and finds, especially the Erie pump.

the kinda story you like too hear, with good results- congratulations on your find .. ...

Awesome story..I love it when you can get a picture of the pump in action back in the day too!

Great story and find...thanks for sharing. Just in the last few weeks I've discovered pumps in the wild I didn't know about that are now on the "radar".
They're still out there to be found!
Darin

Great story Les, but that picture is the icing on the cake! Glad they shared it with you!

That is such a great story and pictures , thanks!

Thanks for a nice story les!

Great story with a good ending.

What a great story. That pump has had quite a history with Cities Service, Standard and Farmers Union Co-Op lineage. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on a neat find!

Congratulations and great story!
And yes, that old picture just brings it home!

Great story and congratulations on the find

The kind of stories we always look forward to.Thanks

Good stuff!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I had to share. It was a great experience with great people!

I have to agree with Darin on stuff being out there. I have gotten three pumps this summer that if you did not go into the yard you would have never known they were there. Good luck hunting everyone!