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Elvis Presley Collectibles for Every Budget

Elvis Presley Collectibles for Every Budget

By Barry Krause    “By the latter part of 1956, there were already hundreds of items that appeared in every department store, drugstore, specialty shop and music store in the country. There were bubble gum cards, pin-back buttons, handkerchiefs, dolls, guitars, billfolds, photograph albums and… you could even buy sideburns from a coin-operated machine,” says the Elvis Presley collectibles section of […]

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Crofut & Knapp, Hat Innovators

Crofut & Knapp, Hat Innovators

Excerpt from the Hatted Professor J. Bradford Bowers    So how does a company go from one man working out of a cow shed to the second largest hat company in America? (They did eventually become the largest, but that wasn’t until after 1970 and the closure of the Stetson factory in Philadelphia.)    The short, and perhaps overly obvious, answer is […]

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