August 14, 2004 - Lone Star Insulator Club Houston Show

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Date: August 14, 2004
Hosts: Jimmy Burns, John Hall, and Chris Renaudo
Location: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall at 4345 Allen-Genoa Road in Pasadena, Texas
Size: 80x100 sq. feet
Tables: 24 dealer tables, 6 displays

Floor layout, with dealer table numbering for my photos:

S
T
A
G
E

Displays

06 Chris Renaudo

05 Marilyn Albers

04 Elton Gish

03 Gary Fine

02 Nick Rodnicki

01 John Wiggins

07 Michael Texter

08 Michael Texter

09 N.R. Woodward

10 N.R. Woodward

11 Jimmy Burns (and
sons Chris and James)

12 Steve Clark

18 John Hall

17 Tom & Mary Miller

16 Tom & Mary Miller

15 Jim Bates

14 Robert Berry (NIA)

13 Robert Berry

19 Ross Baird

20 Jack Roach

21 Jack Roach

22 Keith Brooking

23 Keith Brooking

24 Brian Riecker

Entrances

(I have larger versions of all these photos, but only posted the thumbnails here to save space.)

 

Displays:

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 145 Embossing Types"
by Chris Renaudo

Display: "CD 154s"
by James Burns

Display: "CD 154s"
by James Burns

Display: "CD 154s"
by James Burns

Display: "CD 154s"
by James Burns

Display: "CD 154s"
by James Burns

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Hemingray Insulators for Telephone Use"
by Randal Wickersham

Display: "Colorful Brookfields"
by Elton Gish

Display: "Colorful Brookfields"
by Elton Gish

Display: "Colorful Brookfields"
by Elton Gish

Display: "Colorful Brookfields"
by Elton Gish

Display: "Mud"
by Chris Burns

Display: "Mud"
by Chris Burns

Display: "Mud"
by Chris Burns

Display: "Mud"
by Chris Burns

Display: "Old School"
by Jimmy Burns

Display: "Old School"
by Jimmy Burns

Display: "Old School"
by Jimmy Burns

Display: "Old School"
by Jimmy Burns

Display: "Old School"
by Jimmy Burns

Display: "Old School"
by Jimmy Burns
 

 

Sales Tables, Row 1:

Table 01 - rail insulators

Table 01 - Electric Blue CD 162s

Table 01 - dry-spot insulator; CD 1038 Cutter

Table 01 - CD 185 Jeffrey Mine

Table 01

Table 01 - CD 106.1 Duquense

Table 01 - foreign spool, deep green

Table 02 - amber signals

Table 02 - Mica beehive

Table 02 - ridged CD 121

Table 02

Table 03 - opalescent CD 128 Hemi

Table 03

Table 03 - CD 115 Brookfield, emerald green

Table 03 - peacock blue signal

Table 03

Table 04 - white GE porcelain

Table 04

Table 04 - yellow porcelain

Table 04 - CD 257

Table 05 - Russian power glass

Table 05 - CD 121 AGEE

Table 05 - CD 423 AGEE

Table 05 - CD 430 AGM

Table 06 - CREBs

Table 06 - CREBs, with the Albers in the background

Table 06 - lonely CD 311

 

Sales Tables, Row 2:

Table 07 - Hemingray Birds

Table 08 - CD 283

Table 08 - CD 269 Jumbo

Table 08 - power glass

Table 09 - reference books: 1989 Woodward Report, 2003 Price Guide, Hemingray's Colorful History, Brookfield Catalog Reprint

Table 09 - CD 154s SCA

Table 10

Table 10

Table 11 - composition insulator

Table 11 - colorful porcelain

Table 11 - colorful porcelain

Table 11 - colorful porcelain

Table 11 - colorful porcelain

Table 11 - colorful porcelain

Table 11 - colorful porcelain

Table 12

Table 12

Table 12

Table 12

Table 12

Table 12

Table 12 - opalescent CD 128 Hemi

Table 12
 

 

Sales Tables, Row 3:

Table 13

Table 13

Table 13

Table 13

Table 13 - tiny capacitor bushings

Table 14

Table 14

Table 14

Table 15

Table 15 - amber signals

Table 15 - jade CD 145

Table 15 - dealers

Table 16 - porcelain multiparts

Table 16

Table 16

Table 16 - Brazilian single-piece glass post (150lbs?)

Table 16 - Sediver suspensions

Table 16

Table 17 - fogbowls

Table 17 - Lapps

Table 17 - foreign porcelain multipart

Table 17 - Lapps

Table 18

Table 18 - 'Breakup of Ma Bell' bell

Table 18 - 'Telephone Pioneers' bell

Table 18 - CD 190/191

Table 18 - ridged CD 121

Table 18

Table 18 - green CD 145 with amber

Table 18

Table 18 - Pyrex carnival glass

Table 18 - CD 256 Manhattan
 

 

Sales Tables, Row 4:

Table 19 - CD 287.1 Locke, peacock blue and red amber

Table 19 - colorful signals

Table 19 - CD 736 E.R.W. light blue aqua

Table 19 - CD 123

Table 19 - CD 790 'Teapot' olive amber blackglass

Table 19 - CD 158.2 Boston Bottle Works

Table 19 - CD 128.4 'Big Mouth'

Table 19 - CD 196 Hemi gray green

Table 19 - amber signal

Table 19 - CD 257 Hemi electric blue

Table 19 - CD 110.6

Table 19 - CD 180 Liquid Insulator

Table 19 - CD 109

Table 19

Table 20

Table 20

Table 20 - CD 254; CD 135 Chicago milky blue; CD 109.5 Harloe 'claw'

Table 20

Table 20

Table 20 - cobalt Zicme spools

Table 20

Table 21 - CD 248/311/311

Table 21 - CD 269 Jumbo

Table 21

Table 21 - CD 265 Fisher

Table 21 - CD 284 Floy

Table 21 - Cable 'helmet'

Table 21 - CD 293 Locke, light gray purple

Table 21 - CD 288 Mershon

Table 21 - CD 303/310

Table 22

Table 22 - "Yellow Dot Special"

Table 22 - lots of "Yellow Dot" glass

Table 23 - Hemingray nail-mount insulators (US Army Signal Corp?)

Table 23 - lots of "Yellow Dot" glass

Table 24 - green and blue porcelain signals

Table 24 - odd pointy thing

Table 24

Table 24

Table 24 - yellowish signal; CD 123

Table 24 - Brian Reicker; "I Buy Insulators"

Table 24 - carnival Pyrex power glass

 

Facility:

small transformer on part of pole, displayed near entrance to IBEW hall

IBEW banner: "95 Years of Growth and Progress"

IBEW banners: "34th International Convention" and "IBEW 100 - 1891-1991 - A Century of Service"

IBEW flag: "I.B.E.W. L.U. 66 - Chartered January 13, 1894"

training poles outside (for lineman rodeo?)

training poles outside (for lineman rodeo?)

training poles outside (for lineman rodeo?)

roadside sign: "IBEW Local Union 66 - United We Stand"

hall almost empty, as the last packing-up finishes

 

Chris Renaudo's photos:

 

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