[GreenKeys] TYPETRONICS

[BOB LAAG]

YEA,  EVEN WITH THE FAMILY'S DISPLEASURE AND EXHAUSTED PATIENCE, WE ARE 
STILL HAVING SOME FUN WITH THIS NEAT STUFF...  BUT AS YOU SAID DON,  
GAS, INSURANCE, TAXES DO KEEP US FROM CONSIDERING ANYTHING...  AND THEN 
A PLACE TO STORE THE NEAT PIECES WE ARE TREASURING...  SAME OVER 
HERE...  BUT STILL TRYING TO HAVE FUN...   I JUST WISH I COULD SEE ALL 
OF THE NEAT STUFF HE MAY HAVE STORED THERE...  IT MIGHT BE LIKE THAT 
TRIP THE GUYS TOOK TO THAT 'CAVE' OR BUILDING...

Don Robert House wrote:

>
> On 17 Aug 2005, at 9:02 PM, BOB LAAG wrote:
>
> IF YOU HAVE ANY TELETYPE PARTS NEEDS YOU PROBABLY SHOULD GET AN ORDER  
> OFF TO FRED AT TYPETRONICS  RIGHT AWAY...   HE IS 92 YEARS OLD AND  
> MUST FIND A HOME FOR HIS TUBES, COMPONENTS AND TELETYPE PARTS...   HE  
> IS RELUCTANT TO PACK AND SHIP ANY HEAVY ITEMS BUT WILL DO WHAT HE CAN  
> AT HIS AGE...  I AM ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE COUNTRY TO HELP, BUT  
> ANOTHER THOUGHT MIGHT BE IF SOMEONE WOULD LIKE A BUNCH OF STUFF TRY  
> TO MAKE A DEAL WITH HIM AND GET IT PICKED UP WITH A TRUCK OR  
> SOMETHING...  HE IS IN FT. LAURDALE, FLORIDA...  HIS NUMBER IS  
> 954-583-1340...  HE IS REALLY A GREAT GUY AND HAS BEEN OF MUCH HELP  
> ALL OF THESE YEARS...  BUT NOW HIS STOCK MUST MOVE ON...
>
> Bob et all,
>
> I would like to help but costs are going up so quickly.  I cannot  
> afford a drive to Florida even though it is only a two day drive.   
> Gas here is skyrocketing with regular at $2.75 a gallon.  Premium is  
> over $3.00 a gallon.  I hate to imagine what the prices are in  
> California!!!   With my cargo trailer attached to my Dodge Dakota  
> pickup, the best I can get is about 13 mpg.  I also have to pay my  
> real estate taxes which will have to be taken out of our investments  
> so we can eat the last two weeks of next month.
>
> I am dedicated and love this hobby, but family must come first.
>
> By the way I recently picked up in Indiana a Model 32 TELEX and two  
> 28ASRs that were some of the very last delivered to Western Union.   
> Nice clean almost new machines.  Many thanks to my good friend John  
> Rosich for storing these beauties for several years.  I also picked  
> up locally a Model 19 that was once in the Teletype Corporation  
> museum.  It even came with the descriptive tag.  Now to find a new  
> building for the museum.  My wife of 37 years (today) is loosing  
> patience with me.  Sound familiar?
>
> The problems and challenges never seem to end.
>
> Don
>
> Don R. House, K9TTY
>
>
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