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William Holohan
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Another interesting find

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I know this should be put in another thread, but for some reason I can't post to it.
Take a tour of this site. Especially the Rondstadt Catalog. Some very interestind signwriting on the wagons shown.

http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/ronstadt ... wagon.html
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Doug Bernhardt
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Interesting...No Kidding!
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Patrick Mackle
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Thank you for sharing a great family/business achieve.
Interesting to view the people, product, advertising and their progressive success.
Pat
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Kent Smith
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wagons

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Wow how cool is that. Gives me a real appreciation for why my great and great-great grandfathers were sign painters and pinstripers as well as wheel rights, making wagons and carriages in Illinois through the 1800's Just wish I could find info like that on them.
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Dan Sawatzky
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Thanks William!!!

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The information on wagons comes in real handy today... I'm in the midst of designing a project where we will build a wagon among other things. Perfect timing!

The historical information of course will be translated to 'CARTOON' for an upcoming project. Even so, basing it on historically accurate information means the stylized wagon I design and build is more accurate and believable. For this project I'll downsize it, 'toon it a little and make it fun for kids. I'll be building it all out of welded steel and epoxy instead of wood as in days gone by... but my hope is that when grampa brings his grandchildren or great grandchildren to this facility the wagon and otehr things we build will trigger memories and he (and grandma too) will then tell stories to the kids of 'how it was in the olden days'.

You can be there will be hand lettering and striping on the wagon I build too... just like in the pics.

Thanks for the info!

Dreaming of the old days in Yarrow...

-grampa dan
Isn't it great to love what love what you do and do what you love!
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