| Magazine Review: The Glory Days of the American Auto
The American automotive industry has a clouded future, but a very bright past. That glorious history is evident in several magazines that have just arrived in the MagSampler.com newsstand.We carry three titles from Auto Round-Up Publications in Jane Lew, West Virginia (be careful, this can get confusing): the biweekly Auto Round-Up Magazine and its companion monthlies, Truck Round-Up Magazine and Auto/Truck Round-Up Monthly. We'll get to the fourth magazine, Antique Automobile, a little later.All three Round-Up magazines use newsprint stock. They are filled with ads for cars, trucks, motorcycles and a great miscellany of automotive paraphernalia. These are national magazines, so the ads are not for people looking for an old Honda Civic to use to drive to the train station every morning. The cars being offered (and being sought) are classics, antiques, muscle cars and street rods, or at least the shells that can be turned into something very special.
North St. Paul / CARDS OF EVERY KIND
If you were to rummage through your basement, clean, organize and price everything and cast the room with the bright white of fluorescent light, you might wind up with a replica of Jerry Peterson's store. The eye candy at the Seventh Avenue Antique Mall in North St. Paul begins in the front display window, where a fuzzy gorilla reclines on a brocade chaise lounge, and extends inside to shelves of boxed-up Barbies, faded board games connected to "The Brady Bunch" and "All in the Family" and framed images of Jesus bearing prominent labels in felt pen identifying each as a "religious picture." It's easy to overlook the dozens of blue binders and long white cardboard boxes that house the store's most distinctive contents. Peterson estimates he owns more than 250,000 postcards.
Events give collectors something to celebrate
Antique lovers rejoice! We will have another location to scour when the San Mateo Antiques and Collectibles Market kicks off Jan. 28. It's the first of eight shows scheduled for 2007. This is great news for Bay Area collectors who have witnessed the closing of several shows and antiques shops over the past year or two. The new venue -- produced by part of the team that hosts the popular Alameda Point Antiques Show -- expects to draw 500 vendors. All merchandise on display must be 20 years or older. Space will be devoted to restoration and repair services. Experts who know how to rewire light fixtures and replate various metals will be on hand. And representatives from the legendary Benicia-based art wallpaper firm Bradbury & Bradbury will be there. Here are future show dates to jot down: March 25, April 15, May 13, June 24, July 15, Sept.
Urgent upgrading needed for DoA's 'antique' tractors
It's almost a year now since the Division of Agriculture first sought the local government's help in upgrading its almost 20-year-old tractors but nothing has happened to the request since then.According to Agriculture director Donald Flores, the old tractors have degraded the division's productivity, especially when being operated on wetlands. The division uses the tractors to service agricultural lands in the CNMI.Flores said he is again seeking the help of Reps. Arnold I. Palacios and Ray Yumul so they could upgrade the antiquated equipment."I have already mentioned it to Rep. Yumul," he said.Flores pointed out that since the funding for the Saipan Farmer Market has been shelved momentarily and would be spread out, the local government could probably allot a certain amount for the upgrading of the tractors.Flores said his office has been requesting the government to provide local farmers with more dependable tractors.
No one else in building; Franklin Pike to remain closed until at ...
The Metro Fire Department has confirmed that no other people are trapped inside a former antique store that collapsed this morning on Franklin Pike. One person is confirmed dead and another suffered critical injuries.
Charles Shannon, a fire department spokesman, said a search dog found no other victims.
Metro fire officials said it appeared construction work, possibly renovation, was underway at the building, formerly the home of A to Z Antiques, at 2309 Franklin Pike.
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