[AT] farm machinery films

[Larry D. Goss]

The food's still good, Ralph.  Brats, chops, chips, beans, potato salad,
and an unlimited supply of soft-serve ice cream.  Nobody much pays any
attention to the presentations, but they like the nighttime
entertainment and door prize drawings.

Larry

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Subject: [AT] farm machinery films

And speaking of old farm machinery films, how many of you remember going
to
"John Deere Days" or as it was later known, "Farming Frontiers"? Every
JD
dealer would host a free show with an hour or so film of whats new in
equipment and farming practices along with free coffee and donuts and
door
prizes. I didn't see my first one til about 1971 but I know they were
going
on for years before that. I can recall them showing some flashbacks of
previous shows with some interesting old machinery shots. I wonder if
those
old films would be available now? It would be interesting to look back
on
what was new in green machinery for the 1940s and 50s. I've still got
some
of those old John Deere pocket notebooks dating way back . They were
handed
out to everybody that came to the show.
I haven't been to a show for a few years now. The new machinery just
doesn't
seem as interesting somehow.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/


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