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Le Sueur swap meet - what we bought

SweetFeet

SweetFeet

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Will post more pics from Le Sueur swap meet in coming days... thought I'd start off with the treasures that we brought home.

A pic out the window as we approached the grounds. We recommend attending the swap meet to anyone interested. It would even be worth a longer drive and getting a room in a nearby town. We just have a blast every year!

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Threshing machine displayed as you pull into the grounds of Le Sueur County Pioneer Power Association.

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My little unit with 4-on-the-floor... I've wanted a clawfoot tub for years. We got this for $50 and the enamel in it looks good enough to just clean and polish and we will be good to go. Will take awhile - as we will be remodeling the bathroom before we put the tub in (maybe a winter project).

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My husband bought an IH seat for our Farmall Regular (it had an odd-ball seat on it when we bought it). He also bought this old angle tool.

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Our daughter bought this little pocket knife.

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Last, but not least... I bought this shoe polish can (I assume it is just a reproduction label as it it not beat up at all). Anyway, my dad had a saying, "He don't know .... from Shinola". I never knew Shinola was shoe polish. :)


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The Shinola slogan was popular in S. TX. when I was growing up
too. Course it has to be Brown Shinola. Grin.

Haven't seen any lately, but the other brand is available at $6 a can.
Can you believe that? I don't remember the last time I bought
polish, but it was no way near that price.

Mark
 
Phil,

Hmmm, I am unsure of the trouble. I can see the photos on my screen.

I did post in Modern View this time, so I could caption them. I do normally post in Classic View.
I will log out of Modern and go to Classic to see if I can see them there.

EDIT
Phil, I logged out and closed YT window. Came back and I can seem the photos in Classic View as well as Modern.
 
I love the shinola remark!! Some of the old sayings are really great. I may be heard saying it in the near future. lol
 
Love the tub, great find. I have the same model little knife somewhere, don't have a clue who made it. My Dad used the same saying about the polish, must have been the most popular polish. I do agree with Mark though - need the brown.
 
The knife apears to be an "Imperial " brand. The first knife I had was an Imperial that dad bought me when I was a cub scout. My grandfather always carried one. I still have one of his. There is info on the "net" about Imperial.
 
dcarp,
Grampy is right. Just looked at daughter"s knife. Has 3 blades... on largest blade, near the handle, is stamped/endgraved:

Imperial
Prov. USA

Maybe made in Providence, Rhode Island??
 
Funniest part is... it took me until age 49 to finally understand what Dad was saying - as soon as I saw it, a "light turned on". LOL.
 
Rent the movie "The Jerk" with Steve Martin. Kind of
oddball humor entertainment and you'll have your
explanation of Shinola
 
take the feet off the tub and haul it like it is in
the picture don"t turn it feet up i did on my first
one the enamel was scared and rubbed off in places
 
Saw a lot of equipment go by about 5 pm, I live on a path 1/2
hour away from the grounds. My own mini show as I planted
oats.

Wanted to go, but farming called.....


Paul
 
i have always wondered what the shinola was also, now i know. but sometime cant help it when in the barnyard, that dam chit gets on your boots.
 
IF I ever get around to it, I want to replace an old bathtub at the farmhouse with one of those!
 
s.crum,

Will keep the movie in mind for next winter (we don't watch TV or movies much during nice weather).
 
Sweetfeet, I have the pictures now, thankyou. It looks as though you had a good time, with some excellent buys. The bathtub looks to be in excellent condition, it will look good in a remodelled bathroom. Phil
 
uncle henry,

Thanks for the thought.

My husband and the guy hauling with garden tractor and trailer came up to our pick up - lifted the tub and slid it into our pickup box before I could hop out and say a word about keeping it topside "up". Thankfully it just made one little rough strip - think I can live with it though.
 
Phil,

Thanks! I think it will go well with some other "old" items in our bathroom. I have an old fashioned wash stand (missing the towel bar though) and a small, rustic wooden cupboard to hold rolls of tissue.
 
There were three popular shoe polishes. Kiwi. Shinola, and Griffin. Kiwi was the only one that would give a spit shine to pass inspection in 2nd Armored Division, Maybe Old Tanker can help me if he is that old. I was in 2nd shortly after they returned fron Germany and locted in Fort Hood.
 
60 Acre,

Maybe that means my tin is a little bit older than I thought since it says Ox Blood for the color.

I wish it was brown instead - but it still gives me a trinket from Le Sueur and a funny memory of my dad.

Mom and Dad always bought Kiwi polish, that is why I never knew what Shinola was.
 
someone's gotta say say it - glad to see ya'll are finally gittin to take bath! My wife wants one of those but I'd have to cut a hole in the side of the house to get it in. Looks like you had a good time. Thanks for sharing!
 
always heard my dad say the shinola phrase, never got it until now, he always bought Kiwi brand polish, would sound right " dont know *** from Kiwi " now would it :)
 
Kornfused,

It was a lot of fun!

Tub will be a "fun" job here too... has to go up to the second story (also up 5 steps into the house prior to that).
 
MarkWV,

Same here... I only "got it" when I saw the can on Saturday. And we also always had Kiwi polish - and nope, that would not work quite as well.
 
Get this one. Join the AF and get issued 2 pair high top boots for regular wear with fatigues, and 2 pair of dress shoes for dress blues. All of us in the platoon get these boots with the smooth leather out and rough in except for one.

Not this guy from NJ. He gets a pair of Army boots that have it the other way around, rough out and smooth in.

I lost count of how many cans of KIWI black polish and cans of lighter fluid for his Zippo lighter to cake enough polish on those shoes to make them slick. We really felt sorry for the guy as he was really likeable. But we all made it through boot and tech school.

Mark
 
It's cordovan leather. And it is smooth horsehide leather from the inside of the butt cheeks. Smooth and glossy, no hair holes and no scars. It can be found in many colors but the "Cordovan" redbrown was most popular, and in Florsheim wingtips was a killer shoe for many years.
The palin black cordovanscFlorsehims were the shoe of choice for dress blues. Nothin but kiwi polish for a spit shine. It's the only one with no softening preservatives. Pure wax.
 
LOL my dad use to tell me, if I was fishin fer a compliment, "you'll make a man before your mother". I was 16 when I figures that one out.
 
cannonball,

Thanks. Looked them up on ebay... going to have to pay lots more for that than I did for the tub, that's for sure!
 
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