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Looking for photos, etc from 60s era Shell-A-Rama gas station and Pal's Diner, Rt. 17 Mahwah, NJ & US or state highway signs, shields, route markers
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Recently got this 6" double rope pulley. Love the safety lock ring. That baby is not coming loose from the clevis without a fight.
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Found this today! I have not seen one of these before. It is made out of wood covered with a fabric type material and the handle is bakelite. Unfortunately it is empty!
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I just bought this, double sided
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Picked these up. They were still in the shipping boxes. They weren't stored very well, but they cleaned up nicely. Made by Grace Sign Mfg.
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How about this 1 ga; can, HA dated 1971
Wanted: Nebraska advertising items Cushman, Dempster, Archer oil etc.
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Had a pretty good day today!
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Got this 1938 Nesbitt’s Banner and a paper hat.
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Another Nice Welding porcelain sign! LMK if you know of any others for sale!
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Found these cool items this weekend!
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Brought home a working Ideal 26 "Scratch Off". Had a metal plate screwed on to it over the embossed portion when I bought it. Turned out to be a original embossed Royal Crown Cola! Time to get to some stripping... of the blue paint!
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Also this a couple weeks back... Been remodeling my room and swore I was only buying stuff for that but, well, um, I could not leave one of the shops without this one. Was a hardware store in Metaline Falls Wa. 9ft X 2ft Nice big print too...
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I picked up this elevator floor indicator panel at an antique store. Somehow I thought I needed it.
I found a circuit board for a commercial sign that could be programed to run 10 lights in several patterns. So I figured out how to replicate the lights showing an elevator moving between floors. Got it running now and just need to put it up in my petro room over the door with a push button to operate it.
Express Elevator to the top floor
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Here are some elevator doors for you Jim, from the Cities Service building in NYC:
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Wow neat doors. Now how do you get them out of the building and to Missouri?
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Wow neat doors. Now how do you get them out of the building and to Missouri?
Those doors are awesome. Wish there was a legal and affordable way to bring them home. Don't think I could sneak them out without somebody noticing.
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I installed the elevator floor indicator over a door in my Petro room. The lighted "elevator button" starts the lights going showing the floor numbers going up and down.
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It's a good place for it.
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