OMG
I have lived to see it
In a million years I would not have believed that I would live long enough to see my beloved Perfect Handles getting the attention they always deserved.
Damn
Over 40 years I loved them
In the beginning, if anyone else, anywhere loved them? Yeah they probably did, but they weren't talking to me!
Forgotten, barely noticed. Old screwdrivers what in hell does anone want with old screwdrivers?
They were the grungy forlorn old men at the corner of the swap meet, that's who. Everything we have, everything we collect.......... in the generation before us, nobody wanted it for dirt. It was crap. They were dross on the fringe of society.
Old tools? What are you kidding? Who wants new tools, much less old tools. It was a different world. It was jetty and flashy and hip. Old tools had no place no more.
I bought tools from the last of them. Same old tired dark greasy fruit crates. Consigned to the edge of the antique show or swap meet because nobody else wanted them nearby.
Once in a while one of them would open a shop. It never lasted. A few seasons and gone. But in that minute, tools were exchanged for very little.
Then came the decorators. Who bought old tools to hang on the wall and hoped there would one day be a market for it. These guys opened shops, but the price was too high for taking any home for fun.
But it was the crazy picker scroungers, who saved all of the old tools, all of them. Just one or two generations back.
They are responsible for everything we have.
I have lived to see Perfect Handles loved. Whoda thunk it?
Does this mean my number is almost up?
yours Scott
