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Location: Upper Left USA | So who came in second on that auction? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by MWoody:
So who came in second on that auction?
OK, I'll start the Conga line... not me...
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Is that the line outside of Old Country Buffet on Senior Discount Day?
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Location: Newington, CT | Great story!
Willa -- you are a REALLY fine person! It's just been GREAT to watch as you have made such a positive mark on those who assemble at this forum! I think there's an informal Willa Fan Club starting up, and I KNOW I'm part of it!
Congratulations, both, and what a TRULY heart-warming story! |
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Location: Right now? | Alan, thank you. I'm happy and excited that the guitar is going to someone who will make it do what it does ... produce beautiful music.
Iffy, you are SO freakin' funny ...
Hugs, everyone, hugs ...
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Location: east coast usa | willa dont tell iffy that cause now he will be crackin jokes all day!.... and at 50 yrs old i cant continue to fall off my chair in a laughing frenzy.. lol wooops see it almost happened again damn that fool...lol |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I'm confused. Whose getting the guitar? |
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Location: Right now? | Professor, the guitar is going to Michael!
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | But will either of you find out how that ended up in Vernal, Utah? That should be historically significant.
Mark, I haven't forgotten your question: we are trying to find out some info: Willa is in contact with the seller and so far not a lot of info...I will try to contact him after the guitar arrives...he will not ship it direct to me as Willa was the auction winner so she is going to forward it on to me as soon as it arrives in NJ...I'll update this when we find out more...probably next week... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm having this dream of a stash of old Ovations amoungst the fossils around Vernal. Flysig probably could have gone over there and picked it up. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Mark, it may not have shipped yet; I can check with Willa and Flysig and see if that might be possible...
I've never been to that part of Utah...I imagine its pretty remote...wonder which Music Store originally had this guitar...I have a note out to John Budney...perhaps he can shed some light...I do know that there is no case candy...but it looks like it has not had a lot of use...I'm ansious to put a set of new strings on it and see what it really sounds like...the youtube video was a hint but cheaply recorded... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I did find this interesting note about Vernal in Wiki...
The Zions Bank Building (3 West Main Street) is a registered historical building in the Uintah County Landmark Register [4], due to this strange story: the building was built in 1916 by W.H. Coltharp, who wanted to use textured bricks to give a modern style to the facades. Since those bricks were made in Salt Lake City by Salt Lake Pressed Brick Company the delivery cost was enormous, amounting to four times the cost of the material.
Coltharp managed to send those bricks by USPS, through the standard mail delivery system: the fares were very low at the time, so bricks were packaged in 50 pounds parcels (7 bricks each), and sent by lots of 40 packages per day. The total amount exceeded 80,000 bricks. [5]
The shipments were transported from Salt Lake to Mack, Colorado by Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, then the parcels proceeded to Watson via the narrow gauge Uintah Railway and reached Vernal by wagon freight through steep roads. The full trip was over 420 miles long.[6]
US Postal Regulations were later changed to avoid further exploiting of the service: a limitation of 200 pounds per day per receiver was introduced. The United States Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson explicitly stated in a letter, "it is not the intent of the United States Postal Service that buildings should be shipped through the mail"[7]
The Bank of Vernal was nicknamed "The Parcel Post Bank". Today the building is used as branch office of Zion's Bank.
How about that...a USPS delivered Bank building and a rare Adamas in remote NE Utah...wow |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
How about that...a USPS delivered Bank building and a rare Adamas in remote NE Utah...wow
I wonder how many bricks they broke in transport. I know they didn't all make it there intact considering USPS's record with me. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Mark, it may not have shipped yet; I can check with Willa and Flysig and see if that might be possible...
And if that doesn't work out, I can possibly provide the last link from Willa to Mike. If it arrives at Willa's before the SSSJIII, I could bring it to Mikey on the way there or back. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | QUOTE] And if that doesn't work out, I can possibly provide the last link from Willa to Mike. If it arrives at Willa's before the SSSJIII, I could bring it to Mikey on the way there or back. Mike, I really appreciate that: it is supposed to ship today as I found out and should be a Willa's by Tuesday or Wednesday…and she plans to have label ready and send it on immediately so it should be here by Friday of next week...but we'll see and keep your offer in mind...As long as it's packed well and arrives in good shape, that’s all I care about!
Of course, I can't deny that I am anxious to see and play it...wow, that’s an understatement!
I have been extremely blessed by the good will and efforts of OFC members in offering and in helping with both 199 and also 189...Paulie, I haven't forgotten you and I still owe you a steak...(or whatever)... :D ;) (ya should have played the guitar while it sat in your living room...but to tell the truth, it is a different guitar since the MS did their magic).
I also got a very nice note from Jerome stating how much he is looking forward to him and me getting together and playing 119 and 125 together...me too! |
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Location: Colorado | Oh - yeah the adami open up...my #43 was played on the road several hours a day for a dozen years straight...see professor's detailed expose' when had a slothead and his ofc for several days in the same room. Lot's of mojo...in Cliff's too - his being straight acoustic to boot. Nothin helps guitars out like time, care, and playin'
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with 16hrs left will this Addmas reach 5K yes or no
