| | The McMickings of Wire Cache
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| | by Wilf and Margaret Secord
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Being employed as a tug boat captain on the British Columbia coast, I got one
day off for every day worked. That gave us six months of every year to travel
the country with our truck and camper. We were "rockhounds" at that
time and put a lot of miles on the road. Somewhere along the line our interest
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| | Ask Woody
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N. R. Woodward is the author of The Glass Insulator
in America and developed
the Consolidated Design Numbers identification system for glass insulators. This
month's questions come from Ken Willick, Lima, New York.
I have a CD 122.4 Hemingray E2 in an ice clear color (different from the usual
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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NICE THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES
The 1988 Houston MA Convention, Show and Sale is less than two months away
and, as one of the three Show Chairmen for this big event, I am discovering
what a lot of planning and hard work goes into something like this. My hat is
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| | Edison Plaza Museum
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| | by Jill Street, Curator
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On your way to or from the National Insulator Show in Houston, Texas, this
summer, why not plan a stopover at the Edison Plaza Museum in Beaumont, about 90
miles east of the Bayou City?
On display in the only museum west of the
Mississippi dedicated to the genius of Thomas A. Edison is a large insulator
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| | "Insulator High" Sierras Trip
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| | by Mike Guthrie, West Coast Correspondent
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The weekend of August 28-29, 1987 was anticipated like the coming of
Christmas is by children. It was to be the second overnight insulator field
trip of the Western Telegraph Research Association (WTRA). At about 5:30 a.m. a
caravan of about seven vehicles had assembled at researcher Ron Sousa's home in
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