hunting and gathering

The hunt was on! Sparky used every means possible to gather the pumps and signs we have including many trips across the USA and as far as Edmonton Canada, but have had signs shipped from New Brunswick Canada, Toronto and British Columbia as well as Maine, Florida and about everywhere else. Sparky has about 3000 collector friends on Facebook that help him find all the good stuff:)

Finding signs is its own story., then buying them is another story and finally getting them home is even a different story. They can be very complicated and are big and heavy and difficult to move. The gas pumps aslo have this challenge. Every one has it’s own colorful story. They most fun is meeting the people along the way, making new friends and learning the history of the signs. Sometimes a sign is spotted and not until years later is the deal actually made when the owner finally decides what it will take to trade or to sell it