Re: Oil dock sign "borrowed", not repainted . . . 
| March 25, 2017 09:19PM |
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Johnson Barr Wrote:
> Popeye8762 Wrote:
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> > It's in my living room right now. :-)
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> From whom did you "inherit" the sign, Popeye -
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> As SFAICT (So Far As I Can Tell), it was
> "borrowed" several years before you were born .
> . .
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> - Willie
Thanks, Willie, but I'm closer to 60 than not! I was trying to describe the sign's construction for Paul, and, I just had my hired guy grab it in January, cause it was quite a trek in the snow, out to the oil rack. If they were gonna make new ones, I asked for the old one for Carpenter's Shop.
> Popeye8762 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > It's in my living room right now. :-)
>
>
> From whom did you "inherit" the sign, Popeye -
>
> As SFAICT (So Far As I Can Tell), it was
> "borrowed" several years before you were born .
> . .
>
> - Willie
Thanks, Willie, but I'm closer to 60 than not! I was trying to describe the sign's construction for Paul, and, I just had my hired guy grab it in January, cause it was quite a trek in the snow, out to the oil rack. If they were gonna make new ones, I asked for the old one for Carpenter's Shop.
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