By Robert Reed    The thundering hoofs on race tracks across America also echo the accompanying sound of horse racing collectibles. From programs and postcards to the individual memorabilia of legends like Seabiscuit and Secretariat, the ‘race’ to acquire a ‘bit’ of the horse racing past continues.    It doesn’t hurt that there are more than 90 thoroughbred race tracks in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Peggy DeStefano    Old Wagon Antique Mall, 10685 Melody Drive in Northglenn, is the first antique mall visitors discover when traveling to Denver from the east and north.    Harold “Hal” Reed is the owner of Old Wagon Antique Mall and he is glad to welcome all who arrive. The Mall has 8,000 square feet and has over 100 dealers to […]

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