Free relevant guideline for Antique Soda Machine Refrigeration

This book is probably not for the serious collector who is looking for accurate values and in-depth information. But I sure found it a really fun book to browse. It is full of colored photos of Drug Store/Soda shop items, many of which I recognized still being used in the 50’s in the area where I lived. There are many photos of Drug Store museums that are fun to look at too. It did help me to identify some of the things I have collected thru the years too.

One man’s ambivalent retreat from his racist past?
So it hits the yahoo front page, Personally I really can`t find it in my heart to feel sorry for him, I really think its a little to late for him to apologize. He wants us to feel sorry for him because he finally see how it feels to be on the verge of death. I think its a crap of bull from a black person point of view.The story: (Some of it)ROCK HILL, S.C. – Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.Antique clocks, at least a hundred of them, fill his neat ranch home on Tillman Street. Antique Soda Machine Refrigeration Grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, cuckoos and Westministers, all ticking, chiming and clanging in an hourly cacophony that measures the passing days.Why clocks? his wife Judy has often asked during their 49 years together.He shrugs and offers no answer.Wilson doesn’t have answers for much of how he has lived his life — not for all the black people he beat up, not for all the venom he spewed, not for all the time wasted in hate.Now 72 and ailing, his body swollen by diabetes, his eyes degenerating, Wilson is spending as many hours pondering his past as he is his mortality.The former Ku Klux Klan supporter says he wants to atone for the cross burnings on Hollis Lake Road. He wants to apologize for hanging a black doll in a noose at the end of his drive, for flinging cantaloupes at black men walking down Main Street, for hurling a jack handle at the black kid jiggling the soda machine in his father’s service station, for brutally beating a 21-year-old seminary student at the bus station in 1961.In the final chapter of his life, Wilson is seeking forgiveness. The burly clock collector wants to be saved before he hears his last chime.
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