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"Insulator High" Sierras Trip

   by Mike Guthrie, West Coast Correspondent

   

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 ...                    [more]



   

Foreign Insulators

   by Marilyn Albers

   

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 ...                    [more]



   

The McMickings of Wire Cache

   by Wilf and Margaret Secord

   

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 ...                    [more]



   

Ask Woody

   

   

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 ...                    [more]



   

Edison Plaza Museum

   by Jill Street, Curator

   

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 ...                    [more]



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