Post by Chuckie on Jun 29, 2017 22:24:43 GMT -5
Well, I just got Monkey's Dad's clock back from the shop, and it's PRETTY KEWL!!!
Our local clock repair man said it dates to around 1900 - 1910. The Director of the local VA gave it to "Pops" as we called her father when he was head of Personnel here in Leavenworth. Clockman says its a "Sessions Simple Calendar Clock".
I bought my first clock when I was around thirteen @ a garage sale for $13, and I had to borrow SIX BUX from my sister to buy it!!! Thank GAWD she had a better job than I then!! Here it is:
It is German made, and had a "double-bong-chime", but a gear broke inside according to said clockman, and repair price was a bit "richer price" than I could afford then to fix. It still keeps good time, but--alas!--don't chime no mo'! I miss the sound *sigh*
My Grandfather Ed was a professional trapshooter from the 40's till his death in 1968. He won the National Championship back in 1956, but it didn't pay like it does now!!! Anyhow, he won this one at a local shoot, and I had it redone as well. If you could see it "up close", us kids used to shoot @ it w/our BB guns! (yea, I know, should've had our @$$ whupped! We would've had he known!) There are "indentations" near the cuckoo door and on the pendulum from the barrage:
This one I bought at a garage sale MANY YEARS AGO too, and I haven't found the funds to restore it either:
This Grandfather clock in the dining room I bought when I got my insurance settlement from the Post Office. N-O-T cheap, but it's the only one that keeps on a tickin' since I bought it in about 1996!!! The clock man that fixed it (now dead!) said it dates from the mid 1800's; the paint on the face continues to deteriorate daily unfortunately. It has a cool hourly bell that sounds like a street car when it chimes:
And THIS mantel clock y'all have seen MANY TIMES, as it's the backdrop for lotsa pics I've posted; it has the "Big Ben" chimes, and a simple bell on the half-hour. A dear (late) family friend gave me this when her Mother died, as "nobody in OUR family has any use for this "old junk"! Thus I 'inherited' this when I was about fifteen:
Monkey bought me this one for our first anniversary--a "Hunter's Clock" I believe it's called--German made as well. It plays TWO different songs, Edelweiss and Somewhere My Love. It is jacked up now as well, and needs to go see the "clock doc":
This one came from our old neighbor Phillip's estate; his nephew gave it to me, as he knew I admired it. Phillip had built it from a kit. It took me a few days to get it running, but then--alas!--quit too!! You have your choice of Westminster chimes, etc. on it, and it chimes on the hour/half & quarter. It, too, is on the "lottery money waiting list"
Lastly, this cuckoo was an eBay find. It has ALWAYS kept PERFECT time since I got it, and plays a tune that I've never heard before from a cuckoo clock!!! It hangs above my chair in the living room, next to the "tart"--as Monkey likes to call her!
Dwayner can attest as to how "noisy" it is around here on the hour!!! I find them "comforting"--much like they say you lay a baby on the Mother's breast, and the sound of the beating heart puts them to sleep. When Monkey was gone seeing to her (dying) Mother in Florida, I would sit in the living room w/a cold beer--TV & radio off--and be 'at ease' listening to the rhythmic ticking.
As of "right now", Pop's clock I picked up today hangs just outside our bedroom door (to the "R" in first pic) so we'll be seeing if that "comforting sound" is indeed true tonight!! Someone once asked how we SLEEP w/the ticking & cuckoo's singing, and I tell them I only wake up when one of them DOESN'T cuckoo, and then I ponder whether I forgot to wind it, or is it too now on the lotto $$ sick call waiting list?!
S-o-o-o-o-o, I guess when Father Time FINALLY calls my name, he oughta know who I AM!! I just hope he don't come callin' anytime SOON!!
CHEERS!
Chuckie
Our local clock repair man said it dates to around 1900 - 1910. The Director of the local VA gave it to "Pops" as we called her father when he was head of Personnel here in Leavenworth. Clockman says its a "Sessions Simple Calendar Clock".
I bought my first clock when I was around thirteen @ a garage sale for $13, and I had to borrow SIX BUX from my sister to buy it!!! Thank GAWD she had a better job than I then!! Here it is:
It is German made, and had a "double-bong-chime", but a gear broke inside according to said clockman, and repair price was a bit "richer price" than I could afford then to fix. It still keeps good time, but--alas!--don't chime no mo'! I miss the sound *sigh*
My Grandfather Ed was a professional trapshooter from the 40's till his death in 1968. He won the National Championship back in 1956, but it didn't pay like it does now!!! Anyhow, he won this one at a local shoot, and I had it redone as well. If you could see it "up close", us kids used to shoot @ it w/our BB guns! (yea, I know, should've had our @$$ whupped! We would've had he known!) There are "indentations" near the cuckoo door and on the pendulum from the barrage:
This one I bought at a garage sale MANY YEARS AGO too, and I haven't found the funds to restore it either:
This Grandfather clock in the dining room I bought when I got my insurance settlement from the Post Office. N-O-T cheap, but it's the only one that keeps on a tickin' since I bought it in about 1996!!! The clock man that fixed it (now dead!) said it dates from the mid 1800's; the paint on the face continues to deteriorate daily unfortunately. It has a cool hourly bell that sounds like a street car when it chimes:
And THIS mantel clock y'all have seen MANY TIMES, as it's the backdrop for lotsa pics I've posted; it has the "Big Ben" chimes, and a simple bell on the half-hour. A dear (late) family friend gave me this when her Mother died, as "nobody in OUR family has any use for this "old junk"! Thus I 'inherited' this when I was about fifteen:
Monkey bought me this one for our first anniversary--a "Hunter's Clock" I believe it's called--German made as well. It plays TWO different songs, Edelweiss and Somewhere My Love. It is jacked up now as well, and needs to go see the "clock doc":
This one came from our old neighbor Phillip's estate; his nephew gave it to me, as he knew I admired it. Phillip had built it from a kit. It took me a few days to get it running, but then--alas!--quit too!! You have your choice of Westminster chimes, etc. on it, and it chimes on the hour/half & quarter. It, too, is on the "lottery money waiting list"
Lastly, this cuckoo was an eBay find. It has ALWAYS kept PERFECT time since I got it, and plays a tune that I've never heard before from a cuckoo clock!!! It hangs above my chair in the living room, next to the "tart"--as Monkey likes to call her!
Dwayner can attest as to how "noisy" it is around here on the hour!!! I find them "comforting"--much like they say you lay a baby on the Mother's breast, and the sound of the beating heart puts them to sleep. When Monkey was gone seeing to her (dying) Mother in Florida, I would sit in the living room w/a cold beer--TV & radio off--and be 'at ease' listening to the rhythmic ticking.
As of "right now", Pop's clock I picked up today hangs just outside our bedroom door (to the "R" in first pic) so we'll be seeing if that "comforting sound" is indeed true tonight!! Someone once asked how we SLEEP w/the ticking & cuckoo's singing, and I tell them I only wake up when one of them DOESN'T cuckoo, and then I ponder whether I forgot to wind it, or is it too now on the lotto $$ sick call waiting list?!
S-o-o-o-o-o, I guess when Father Time FINALLY calls my name, he oughta know who I AM!! I just hope he don't come callin' anytime SOON!!
CHEERS!
Chuckie