Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Thursday was just a normal day, nothing really exciting happening. Friday, Alan was over and helped with the kitchen floor and we discussed some changes to make. Friday evening we left for the La Porte Hamfest and spent the night in Rochester, IN. Saturday we completed our trip to the hamfest site. The first photo is of the concrete communication tower that is on the property. It is about 200'tall and used to belong to AT&T. He still rents several floors of it for radio equipment that operate the antennas on the top. On the second floor he has a complete collection of Collins radio equipment. This was very popular during the second WW

The building is a replica of a Texaco filling station complete with pump, air facility and even a Corvette in the garage on the left side. The garage on the right is full of shelves full of radio gear of all kinds and descriptions.
One of his boys is a collector of RR equipment and there are semaphores all around among other type of rail road stuff.
We were parked just to the left of the station. This was the first year of this gathering so it was not very large however the facility was quite nice and would accommodate several vendors, etc.
Sunday there was not much going on. We left later in the afternoon and spent the night in Monticello, IN and Monday morning we drove the back roads and got back to Fishers about noon. We spent the afternoon running errands and getting things caught up from the long weekend.
Today, we worked in the house, getting some trim completed and some painting finished up and hopefully getting it back on the market before long.
Tomorrow, more of the same and nothing planned as far as travel is concerned for about 3 weeks when we go to Findlay, Ohio.
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