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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3492 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #30 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 4:31pm	Print Post
	The things on the wall are probably worth more than most of the guns in the racks. Sure would like to do my decorating with that stuff. Be still my heart....


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RSW Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1158 Location: Arizona Joined: Sep 8^th, 2006	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #31 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 4:43pm	Print Post
	Bob Here is a quickie Photo Shop cleanup of the image. As the image quality is only so-so, there's not a lot to be done to improve it other than tweak the brightness and contrast plus throw some image sharpening on it. Some of the detail is easier to see though.

	Randy W ASSRA 10211 - ISSA 125 There are indeed two Americas. Simply put, it is not the haves and have nots. The two Americans are in reality divided into those who do and those who don't.
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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #32 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 8:25pm	Print Post
	What I love are the built-in racks for customers to lean their guns in, guns they have brought into the store for whatever reason, and done so without a worry. Can you even imagine any store, even a gun store, doing that today? Bill Lawrence


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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 2495 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #33 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 8:40pm	Print Post
	Looks like the dog didn't get the memo to hold still for a few seconds Jack

	ASSRA # 11318 Plethora? You say I have a plethora?.
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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #34 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 9:47pm	Print Post
	Bill Lawrence wrote on Aug 20^th, 2018 at 8:25pm: What I love are the built-in racks for customers to lean their guns in, guns they have brought into the store for whatever reason, and done so without a worry. Bill Lawrence Well, it's quite true a customer strolling in with a gun in his hands wouldn't have precipitated a panic (it didn't even when I brought my High Standard Double-Nine into my Jr. High shop class to make a holster for it!), but I'd assume most of these racked guns were guns for sale.
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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #35 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	As often happens, once again, Redsetter, my lack of precision has apparently caused my point to be missed. The racks I'm referring to are those that line the customer's side of the counter, apparently all the way around the store. Bill Lawrence


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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1990 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #36 - Aug 20^th, 2018 at 10:44pm	Print Post
	It wasn't that long ago, because I'm not that old the podunk town I'm from in south central Montana had a hardware store that had glass cabinets with the fringes like that. I remember asking my father what these were for, or maybe my dad asked if I knew what they were for... Raymee, the store owner pulled a greased up '03 Springfield from a wooden barrel and leaned it up against the groove and asked if I understood? Never gave the picture another thought when I saw it thanks for a refresher Bill! Greg

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #37 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 12:04am	Print Post
	Bill Lawrence wrote on Aug 20^th, 2018 at 10:30pm: As often happens, once again, Redsetter, my lack of precision has apparently caused my point to be missed. The racks I'm referring to are those that line the customer's side of the counter, apparently all the way around the store. Bill Lawrence Now I see what you mean; could no doubt be used for that purpose, but more inclined to believe they're decorative trim-work in the fancy furniture style of the time. Handy, however, if a platoon of blue-coats dropped in the store.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 15771 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #38 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 10:43am	Print Post
	I think you're correct Bill. Those are likely for customer's guns so they wont lay them on the glass top cases and break the glass.

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3492 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #39 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 12:00pm	Print Post
	I've been in a couple of gun shops that had shorter versions of them, never seen it go as extensive as this picture's version. I'll bet the poor guy that had to saw those boards and smooth 'em up wished he had a saber saw and electric sander-


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Hayface Full Member Offline Posts: 245 Joined: Mar 20^th, 2015	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #40 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 12:35pm	Print Post
	There's a small fortune invested just in the glass cases and cabinets in that picture. Glass didn't travel that far very well without breakage and was needed to fulfill the desire to isolate items from both customers and the clouds of dust present in those dirt and horse manure covered streets, but still provide transparency to let customers know what was available. Must have been a lot easier to daily knock the grime off the top of a glass case than a hundred plus individual firearms. As such, there is no doubt in my mind that the proprietor would do everything possible to protect those glass cases, as MG implied. What a picture! Hayface


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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #41 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 1:11pm	Print Post
	Thank you all for your comments. And you may well be right that the primary reason for the "fringe" was to protect the expensive glass cases. But whatever the reasons, I mentioned the "fringe" simply because there was a time when a hardware or gun shop owner wouldn't have thought at all about someone walking in with a gun in hand. Fifty years ago that was even still true in my town, which had six well-established gun shops and at least as many independent hardware stores that sold some guns and ammunition. Nowadays, those gun shops are long gone; all but one of the few hardware stores are national chain stores, and none even sell ammo; and the local politicians are ardently trying to get the local Walmart to stop selling that "dangerous stuff" (zero tolerance in all forms is the local rage). Oh, well, I'm just a ludite who refuses to change with the times. Bill Lawrence


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Hayface Full Member Offline Posts: 245 Joined: Mar 20^th, 2015	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #42 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 3:39pm	Print Post
	BL, Perhaps I should have phrased my comment differently, (as usual). I don't know that protecting the glass with the "fringe" was necessarily THE primary reason, but certainly A reason for what appears to be a well conceived and executed multi-purpose design element. Regardless, few of us will ever likely see such wonderfully purposeful appointments in a gun shop ever again. And yes, it's a sadder statement yet that they would serve little purpose in today's changed world. Thankfully, this photo and others show up here and give us a small taste of what it was like back then. Change, not always for the better! Hayface


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3758 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #43 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 3:54pm	Print Post
	Do you suppose those are kegs of BP on the high shelf on the left in back? And tins of primers in the close case on the right?


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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2802 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: A Few Old Photos Reply #44 - Aug 21^st, 2018 at 6:10pm	Print Post
	Chuckster wrote on Aug 14^th, 2018 at 10:32pm: Thanks. Don't you wish you were a fly on the bench for that conversation between Roberts and Pope. Chuck How many of us even own suits like that?


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