Just Another Sign or Two…

Oct 11, 2018 | Museum | 0 comments

We headed for Lubbock to see my collector friend Rusty Cook that has a huge and incredible collection of signs on poles as well as a huge Events Center (Cooks Garage) and auto restoration shop etc etc. He’s a very creative and ambitious guy as well as a very nice guy....

Diet Pepsi it is!

Oct 8, 2018 | Museum | 0 comments

Lots of Diet Pepsi and nothing else for days on end. I was also prescribed some pills for nausea and for pain. We were released from the hospital at 6am after they gave me another dose of pain meds and made me promise not to drive. I didn’t bother to tell them that...

The Cash is Missing???

Oct 2, 2018 | Museum | 0 comments

For many months I have been preparing to make the long trip to Texas, Oklahoma, Joplin Missouri, Kansas City, Council Bluffs to pick up the signs that I had been buying all over the Country but that would be held by friends in those locations until I cold get there to...

A Hobby of Hope….

Sep 28, 2018 | Museum | 0 comments

Some of you may be wondering who on earth is the obsessed person that has such a passion for Petroliana sign collecting? Well honestly I have wondered the same thing….and it is my dad. Sparky Sparks is his name, or at least what he goes by. He has a passion like no...

1921 Hayes Visible Pump

Apr 2, 2018 | Museum Tour | 0 comments

We bought this cute Hayes Visible pump last year on our trip to Oregon.. It was wired together and lacked the glass cylinder but otherwise a nice pump. We found a cylinder at the Hershey Swap Meet and finally put it together to display at the Lakeside Storage free...

Coca-Cola Machine

Mar 8, 2018 | Museum Tour | 0 comments

The VMC 33 was the solution to increasing the vending capacity of the VMC 27B. The center of the vending drum was redesigned to hold an additional 6 bottles of soda. This model was produced between 1951-1953....