04-30-2025, 08:41 AM
Good Morning
Currently 50° with a sunny 66° predicted for the high. We had storms yesterday and lost power twice,
once for less than a minute and once for 5 minutes. The worst part went around us. My BIL had the neighbors
panel from his porch blown into their bedroom window and broke it.
I am still working on the O gauge cars that I am gifting a friend. I had to make all the decals which was the
time consumer. All of these companies were once a part of my home town of East Liverpool, Ohio, the pottery capital of the world
My G G grandfather had his own pottery but it did not do well. He lost it in the 1890's. Many other potteries survived until the late 50"s
when foreign imports of china and plastic dinnerware made it hard to compete. Home Laughlin is the only local pottery still in
business, making Fiesta Ware, very popular and quite collectable.
The breweries took a real hit during prohibition with Crockery City making and selling ice and milk products. I remember the ice
man delivering us ice. We did not get a real refrigerator until we moved to the house my parents and grand parents built in 1947.
Charlie
Currently 50° with a sunny 66° predicted for the high. We had storms yesterday and lost power twice,
once for less than a minute and once for 5 minutes. The worst part went around us. My BIL had the neighbors
panel from his porch blown into their bedroom window and broke it.
I am still working on the O gauge cars that I am gifting a friend. I had to make all the decals which was the
time consumer. All of these companies were once a part of my home town of East Liverpool, Ohio, the pottery capital of the world
My G G grandfather had his own pottery but it did not do well. He lost it in the 1890's. Many other potteries survived until the late 50"s
when foreign imports of china and plastic dinnerware made it hard to compete. Home Laughlin is the only local pottery still in
business, making Fiesta Ware, very popular and quite collectable.
The breweries took a real hit during prohibition with Crockery City making and selling ice and milk products. I remember the ice
man delivering us ice. We did not get a real refrigerator until we moved to the house my parents and grand parents built in 1947.
Charlie