1993 National Show Displays

There were 27 excellent displays at the show a group display for the 100th anniversary of the May 2nd, 1893 drip point patent.

This large colorful display shows bee hives, signals and Mickey mouse styles. It received the Best of Threaded Glass.

This amazing display is probably one of the best displays ever put together for a National show. It had an old retired lineman in a rocking chair that was rigged to rock and you could hear him snoring. The display was loaded with rare and colorful insulators as well as a set of 23 questions with educational answers. Here is the script that went with the display:

I am an old lineman from Nantucket, who they said when retired would kick the bucket. But I fooled them all...all my life I had a ball, collected insulators and told them to "eat pistachios!"

Yeshiree, I've lost my teeth, properly grayed out my hair (a job well done too!), forgot how to spell sex and drive a car, but one thing about my career of 57 years as a boomer stuck with me in time thick and thin... insulators. They remind me continually of the good times I've had and a lot of the other stuff too.

Just look at me... only 5 shots of old man jack and I'm off dreaming of good times in the old picture I'm holding of the crew we had outta Loveland. That was just after the turn of the century. The crew was rebuilding the old Denver Salt Lake toll line (we were really loaded down with new Denver made glass).

The picture of me on the mantle is the time I was in the parade driving a team of horses for the Locke Insulator Manufacturing Co. Boy was that fun. Everybody fed me Fourth of July pie 'til I was blue in the face.

Then there's the picture of me in my youth... shee gad, was I ever that young? I barely remember how proud I was.

Now take that purple 126 blobtop. That there is a reminder of Nellie May Nutter from the Nutter Ranch outta Price, Utah. She gave it to me to remember her by, cause I'm the best u-h-h-h... dancer she ever knew. Talk about a close call! Boomer lineman can't ever think about making a marriage work bien' on the road year round.

Now take that shin kicker on the floor-- the Locke #25. I almost was killed when a pole broke while replacing all the insulators on a new line they just built going from Skagway Power Plant below Victor City to Pueblo, Colorado. These damn pieces exploded for ten poles when lightning would hit the line, so we took this brittle glass junk off the line with less than 3 years of use and replaced it with some four-part brown porcelain.

These are only a few of the hundreds of stories in the memories of collecting these critters.

Now my big window has all the souvenirs from the Rockies to Pacific Ocean that I found on the job in the WEST... and I put all my treasures from Nebraskey EAST to around Boston in the smaller window.