| Archive for Dr. Grabow Pipes "America's One and Only" |
| ted |
enjoy this as you willhttp://www.archive.org/details/tobacco_azi52b00The Grabow part of this film is at the very beginning. Hope you enjoy it. ....ted..... |
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| Gig |
Great video and thanks for sharing Ted. Were you in the video ? | ||
| ted |
Gig, I believe this was made in 1975 and I was working in the building, but for Mastercraft. I do know every face in the crowd though. Glad you enjoyed it..ted | ||
| ozark southpaw |
Great video Ted. Wish they had shown more of the pipe factory and workings!! | ||
| ted |
OS, At least we were first in the film. I had forgotten about this till locomac e-mailed me about archives. When I got into it and saw "simple pleasures", I knew what I'd found. There are some other video's, but I haven't found them yet.
Did you see the hand frazer making the bent stummel? I've tried to describe that in words, but can't. That snippet really shows it happening. Glad you liked it.....ted |
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| ozark southpaw |
That is some machine!! The speed he was operating that thing blew me away! Wish I had one of them!! |
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| LokoMac8 |
Re: enjoy this as you will
Thanks for the link to those films!!! Someday I would like to put a name with ALL those employees that are featured! You've already identified a few, including JD Higgins singing that little Dr. Grabow pipe jingle. The Dr. Grabow stroy just gets more interesting all the time. --RJ-- |
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| ted |
Mac....I've already started writing down the names as I see them. First in the field with his cows is Staley Wood. Staley made the molds for the hand frazers. Talk about "spacular" vision. The molds for the frazers were oblong, and Staley worked in oblong. Unfortunately died a few years ago.
The tall fellow in jeans with his wife in Leff Wagoner. Leff controlled the stummel inventory. Sounds simple, but it wasn't. Iva Grace was his wife. She worked all over the factory. She's also the lady at the end beveling the tops of the color pipes. Both died a few years ago. In the scene of walking into the factory in front of Jack Martin are Leff and Iva Grace Wagoner and Grace and Ray Wagoner. Ray started working at the factory in 1946. It was his desk drawers that I learned from, and stole from. He was the MOST BRILLIANT PIPE MAN that I've ever met. When I became EVP we rewarded Ray with an unprecidented raise. Ray died in 2006. That's as far as I went. Tough to take notes at the speed the tape goes. I'll look summore'. Really....really glad you like it. If you look really close you'll see my old....old....car in the "office" parking lot....Best I can offer......ted |
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| LokoMac8 |
Thanks again TED! That's why I ened up burning the movies to DVD, so that I could watch them at leisure and pause and back up with ease. Gives me time to look at all the detail in the background. Doing that online usually cause the movie to lock up on me. --RJ-- |
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| ted |
Mac, I'll try to do better.
After Jack, coming out of the house, is Alfred and Mozelle Caudill, and then J.D. and Iva Higgins. Iva worked for Hanes and just delivered J.D. to work. Alfred and Mozelle have picked up Clara Mae Jolly...Zell's sister....in the Chevy truck. These two were the coupon ladies along with being the "repair and return" ladies. Clara Mae never married. I worked with these two when I was 19. A younger man could have been confused with what-all they did. I was..Alfred worked in the carpentry shop making the big displays. All are dead. The old brown Dodge belongned to Leff and Iva Grace Wagoner. The county courthouse is on Jack's left for a second, and then on the right. Leff and Iva, I've mentioned, Zell, Clara Mae and Alfred also. That's Gracen Lucas getting out of his van. I've talked about Gracen before. He and Jimmy Jones made.....made the Continental shapes and was the Foreman at Mastercraft while I managed it. Iva and Leff get some air time, and then Grace and Ray Wagoner. Ray, I've talked about. Next are Hazel and Page Wagoner. Page was ultimately the foreman of the sanding department and Hazel assistant foreman in the packing department. The Banjo picker is Peter Parrish. A Brit who is no longer in the employ of Grabow. I'll watch some more tomorrow and finish.....regards...ted |
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| LokoMac8 |
You're doing great!!! It's really good to get to see these films, the employees and learn their names and a bit of background. I am sure some of this will get on the webpage when I get around to doing some editing. I sort of want to rework the whole thing anyway, to make it better organized, and more professional looking. In the meantime, still taking and keeping notes! Thanks TED! --RJ-- |
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| ted |
Mac, Here is the rest.
3 ladies patching are Rosalee Marlow (Luther's wife), Sallie Caudill, and Betty Crouse. The hand frazer is Tim (Gomer) Warden. Ron Brown on the trademark machine. Gene Greene staining, and the Reverend Brady Farmer pre-smoking. Brady made headlines several times because he smoked millions of pipes, and never smoked. Pete Parish polishing and cleaning aluminum. Charity Gambill says "That's Good". Jack is "shuffling" with Joyce Gillespie. Don't know who is behind the stick. In the window is Tempia Miller and Mary Lane. Pete Parish on the banjo and the man or the right is Donnie Moxley. You have probably read the Charlotte Observer article on Donnie. He carves the "boots", and other things. I believe I'm sitting beside Donnie. Don't remember the girl on the left's first name..... Sprinkle, Carolyn Sturgill, Judy Lyons Brown. Clara Mae Jolly in the window. Horseshoes, Donnie Moxley, Ray Wooten, Harold (Babe) Wagoner. We had 2 "pitchers" that got so good that they won the southeastern championships for 3 or 4 years in a row. Both could throw 80 to 90% ringers. J.D. Higgins and Kermit Pruitt. As I've said Kermit didn't work at the factory. He is the town barber, but plays a mean guitar. Smoking...mostly CDL's are Archie Hines, Jesse Gillespie, Ed Woodle, George Miles (filter maker today), and Larry Woodle. Jackie Wyatt sanding. Pat Miles, my classmate for 12 years, Georges wife, tragically killed in an auto accident about ten years ago. Iva Grace Wagoner again beveling tops. Iva Saltz packing. If you continue to watch, you'll see 2 great friends in the tobacco segment. Randy Cox and Aubery Evelyn. We really worked together through the Mastercraft and Grabow times. Mac, Guess you've figured it out by now. I can't be making all this stuff up...Couldn't even dream up that many names.....regards....ted |
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| ozark southpaw |
Amazing!! I have problems remembering my kids names! | ||
| ted |
Dr B., Thanks. Remember I worked almost every job in the factory so I've worked beside many of them. My first real office job was to administer the suggestion award program, and later worked as payroll clerk. Get to know folks if you write their checks.
The Sprinkle girl's first name is Carolyn, Still don't recognize the person behind the "stick". He/she may have been from UST....Anyway, I've enjoyed this...ted.. |
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| drbridges |
I believe many of us have enjoyed it almost as much, ted. | ||
| ted |
OOPS, her nane wasn't Carolyn.....Guess I'm thinking of an old girlfriend..That's another wonderful chapter, but only mine.
Maybe Julie. Wish I'd left this one alone.......ted.... |
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| steverino |
Ted - I finally took a moment to look at the film - what a superb little piece of education for me! I really appreciate you posting this and adding the "details". | ||
| drbridges |
Them are the folks what make your pipes.
Julie. I think maybe she was my girlfriend, ted. |
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| LokoMac8 |
I am blown away! Now I have some faces to place with some of the names you have mentioned throughout your snippets of information, technical discussions and stories!!! Brings a whole new interest and excitment when reading those things and watching the films! Thanks so much!!!!! --RJ-- |
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| TheDuke |
That's great Ted! Thank you! | ||
| Mike Leverette |
Ted
Thanks for the link. I thoroughly enjoyed that and, my Goodness, what memories it brought back. Visiting all the old tobacco barn auctions while I was a kid with most of the old barns torn down now with others rotting away. Now most of the tobacco buyers visit the tobacco farmers, inspect and buy the crop before even harvesting! All the fun gone now! |
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| ted |
Welcome Back My Friend.......Glad you enjoyed it.....ted | ||