[Johnson] The Waseca Herald

[Bry Carling]

Great story from Bob below.... here is another piece of memorabilia 
from a similar bygone era that some may find interesting!

How they did crystal in the old old days - quartz blanks for 25 cents,
and complete crystals were $1.75 each.

http://www.af4k.com/imag/ham/FisherLabs.jpg

Seen on another list today.

From:           	Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>

> Remember how as kids we had as much or more fun playing with the box
> than with the new toy?
> 
> I've had this Johnson tube socket box for ages, it contains one
> 122-237 
> socket, a 7-pin job that holds the 4D32.  Not something one needs
> every 
> day, but nice to have in the junkbox just in case.
> 
> But today I found something else in the box - - a wadded up piece of
> yellowed newspaper that was used for packing material.  It's about
> 1/4 
> of a sheet of The Waseca Herald classifieds and is an interesting
> little 
> time capsule.  No date is printed on this scrap, but it was from a
> time 
> when you could buy a dress for $8.00 at Doris',  fresh pike or
> pickerel 
> for dinner, peat moss for the garden, or a new Bendix automatic
> washer 
> for "only" $219.50 from Hackett's Home Equipment (you had a
> telephone, 
> you could call them at "Phone 30" - note they didn't say "dial"). 
> You 
> could get your skates sharpened,  your sewing machine
> re-conditioned, or 
> your baby shoes bronzed by local merchants.    There's even a
> snippet of 
> the "social column", describing those who had a birthday shower, 
> traveled out of town, or "entertained callers".
> 
> I'd guess this socket was packaged up in the late 40s or early 50s,
> an 
> early enough time in EFJ history that a few copies of the local
> paper 
> probably provided enough material to cushion the day's shipments.  A
> snapshot of a bygone age, for sure.
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN