J Mings?

[Yvsa]

I see that you live in Hemet in SoCal. I used to browse the antique stores in Hemet and San Jacinto for odds and ends. I got a great Keris in one of the antique stores in San Jacinto one day for the princely sum of $22.50, they didn't have a clue as to what they had.
I still have an original hand cut frame solid recliner chair that was 80 years old when I bought it over 25 years ago in Cherry Valley. I had it recovered after I had set in it, after a good cleaning, for about a year.
My wife at the time said I was going to be setting on the floor soon if I didn't have it recovered.
That's when we discovered that it was a hand made chair and one of the very first recliners, everyone still loves the old chair.
I can't hardly set in it anymore as I can't hardly get out of it anymore being as stiff and stove up as I am.
I lived over in Banning and later on in Yucaipa. My wife at the time was born and raised in the area.
After moving to Oklahoma I finally bought her a one way ticket back to SoCal.

We drove through Banning a few years back on a trip to Copperopolis to see Barb's brother, man that place had grown and had grown ugly, to me anyway. I used to hunt on the Morongo Rez where all the windmills are generating electricity now, progress I suppose.
I'll bet Hemet and San Jacinto have grown a lot too and I hope in a prettier way than Banning.
I always liked it over around the Hemet area but too far to drive over to Banning to work at the Deutsch Company on what they paid at the time.

 

[munk]

Hemet's big- maybe a 100,000. San Jacinto is crime ridden.

Been a long time since you could walk into a thrift store in So Cal and find a true treasure.


munk

 

[Thomas Linton]

People are washing up out of the coastal plain like water slopping out of a bucket. When I was a kid, we used to stop at a gas station for a cold pop (reach into the cold water and slide the BOTTLE our). All around were streets lined with palms and no buildings. They put in the streets and trees, but the Depression killed the project. Nearly thirty years later - streets, palms, vacant lots. Last time I drove through that area, it was solid houses and business buildings - miles of it.

Still "finds" out there. A year ago I found a Stanley No. 1 Smoothing Plane in a Goodwill for $3.00. I thought it was cute - maybe a saleman's sample. Then a guy offered me $600 for it, so I did some research. Stanley collectors - a whole 'nother world. Who would have thought it was worth so much to collectors?

 

[Aardvark]

Thomas,

If you're interested in old planes, and old tools in general, Patrick Leach runs http://www.supertool.com
He buys old woodworking handtools in Europe and the U.S. and puts out a newsletter (usually) monthly. It's full of vintage (and some new, old stock) stuff.

If you (or anyone else) are (is) interested, email me, and I'll send you the latest.