© Frank H. Jump
April, 2008:
Eccentric Roadside – Gunnar & Sherry
© Eccentric Roadside
When you come to a fork in the road – take it!
This blog is devoted to old fashioned American roadside attractions… the wonderfully big, bizarre, crazy, wacky, quirky, weird, funny, unique and mundane sites you see travelling cross-country by car in the USA, where getting there really is all the fun! – Gunnar & Sherry, Rhode Island, USA
Capitol Records Inc. & The Scranton Button Co. – Remington & Cedar Avenues – Scranton, PA
© Frank H. Jump
The Scranton Button Company was a U.S. corporation, founded in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1885. In the 1920s it branched out from making buttons into pressing shellac gramophone records. In July 1929 it merged with Regal Records, Cameo Records, Banner Records and the US branch of Pathé Records to form the American Record Corporation. The company was acquired in 1946 by Capitol Records. – Wikipedia
Some websites on Capitol Records:
© Frank H. Jump
Just In: From Kisken the Finn – Finnish Round Barn in Montana – Kiitos to Kisken!
© Bob Kisken
This is a barn built by Finns in Rerd Lodge, Montana. It was a dairy. The woman who owns it now, Kerrie Rochon, is not a Finn. She [Rochon] has done a great job of restoring it. It is a bar and gambling house. I have met lots of neat people who are restoring Finn buildings and keeping our heritage alive. Both Finns and non-Finns are doing this. I wish some American Finn group or Finnish government group would recognize their efforts and give them a “kiitos plaque.” cheers bob kisken.
Kiitos Kisken!
