By Robert Reed  From coal dump trucks to cap pistols the toys of Hubley Manufacturing Company were an historic part of the 20th century.  Their colorful catalogs assured, “Hubley toys are made to sell.” And sell they did. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania enterprise was at one point among the largest makers of cast iron toys in the world.  At Hubley the […]

By Robert Reed  Part of the enduring Christmas season has always been the music. For decades much of it was captured on phonograph records and colorful long playing albums. Today many of those well-packaged Yule tunes are sounding very collectible.  “In the past few years the growth of Christmas music has been obvious,” wrote author Tim Neely in the 1997 […]

By Jon DeStefano  Morris Olivas started his business with a small booth at Colorado Antique Gallery about seven years ago where he curated with the owner Chris Rodriguez and assisted him with his marketing and instagram. He did very well there selling mostly vintage and vintage mid-modern furniture and furnishings.  He originally named the business MEO his initials, Morris Edward […]

December 2 200th Anniversary of James Monroe introducing the Monroe Doctrine in his State of the Union address (1823) December 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 15 National Bill of Rights Day (1791) December 16 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Pary (1773) December 18 First National Day of Thanksgiving (1777) December 22 Continental Congress creates a Continental Navy (1775) […]