Sunday's Show and Tell...4/27/25

[Nostalgic Dave]

Added a few chainrings to the wall. R for Race? Racycle and Yale.

 

[Nashman]

Hey! Everyone needs a pre-war Santelli Fencing Helmet!! "Touch'e"

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Was that a Birthday present Chris? Nice!

 

[Blue Streak]

Circa 1950's local Erie PA made duck decoy:

1898-1900 Naber Saddle (thank you to @Jesse McCauley for helping ID the manufacturer)

Circa 1890-91 Bolte Spring Fork advertisement:

 

[Nashman]

Found photos of John "Jack" Morgan (1903-1986), aka Morgansky or Juan Ricardo, the designer of Elgin Bluebird, Skylark, and Robin bikes for Sears, Roebuck, and cars for GM.

Morgan was born in Guatemala, and moved to Canada with his family around 1913. He was a student of Canadian landscape painter Thomas Thompson (1877-1917). As a watercolorist, Morgan went to Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Oslo, and other cities to perfect his craft.

He had an art studio in Wheeling, Illinois, 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.

Morgan attended the Detroit Technical Institute, then got a job at GM's Art and Color styling unit in 1928. The division was run by Harley Earl (1893-1969), a proponent of car tailfin styling.

Morgan designed the first car bumper that was integrated into an overall design. He worked on Pontiacs for Frank Hershey (1907-1997).

In 1934, Morgan was the chief product designer at Sears, Roebuck in Chicago, where he created the "Waterwitch" outboard motor, Elgin bikes, vacuum cleaners, kitchen cabinet consoles, and the "turtle neck" tub washing machine.

In 1944, Morgan started his own design firm in Chicago. In 1948, he styled hand mixers and hand drills for Dormeyer Corp. Eventually, his list of customers included Hotpoint, Magic Chef, RCA, Camfield, Webcor, and Amerock.

Morgan was a dapper dresser, sported a mustache, and had a keen sense of humor.

His last address in 1986 was McHenry, Illinois, 10 miles south of the Illinois-Wisconsin line.

Morgan died in a nursing home on Feb. 10, 1986, age 82. He was buried in Fort Howard Memorial Park, Green Bay, Wisconsin, next to his wife, Mabel (Lund) Morgan (1900-1984). Mabel was a native of Tomahawk, Wis.

(Photo of Morgan in sunglasses courtesy of Industrial Design History, a website operated by Bret H. Smith, faculty member at Auburn University. Wheeling, Illinois studio picture and family snapshots found at FamilySearch.org. Cemetery photos from FindaGrave.com.)

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Nice to read about his early days in Canada. I always thought Raymond Loewy ( designs) designed the Sears Waterwitch, but perhaps Jack Morgan was the key guy on the Loewy design team. Loewy surrounded himself with talented designers and many of them were instrumental if not totally responsible for some of the wild art deco and streamlined designs I love so much. I have a 1936 (rare 2 cylinder 5 hp Sears restored) Waterwitch, a 1950 Bullet nose Studebaker Deluxe Starlight Commander coupe and a 1963 Studebaker Avanti, all designed by the Loewy "team".

 

[MrMonark13]

I had a blast out at my buddy’s place today. Brought home a huge haul, but this is the best part. An original Schwinn fender bomb with a NOS base from Koslow’s in Chicago when they closed. Slowly but surely gathering the parts for an Autocycle build! Also picked up an early unknown mfg bike that I’ll post about tomorrow.

 

[Nashman]

And this 54 pound piece of amethyst
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I love those geodes and crystal formations of amethyst. I was an avid "rock hound" ( got me into being a collecting nut) as a youth and adolescent. My Daughter has a large amethyst geode she inherited from my late Brother Patrick. Thanks for showing these!

 

[C M Gerlach]

A nice week....got my heater Luxury liner back at MLC...then a wicked green color " space racer" rollfast with a sick fork bend..... however I just love the color, had to grab it.

 

[C M Gerlach]

A nice week....got my heater Luxury liner back at MLC...then a wicked green color " space racer" rollfast with a sick fork bend..... however I just love the color, had to grab it.
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Blue,...teal...aqua....what is the color?

 

[Nashman]

My back fence is a bit of a relic, blew over last year and the neighbour ( we share a fence) didn't want to split the cost to replace ( or help to fix/has since moved) so I patched it up then on my own, and today a bit of bling for now. I don't mind the rustic "barn wood" look, but it's bordering on ratty and very unstable.

I'm doing some upgrades to a car port and had the Corvette banner on the back ( about to be a wall soon) so put the all weather vinyl Vette on the fence, and had a couple more vinyl banners ( new of old ads) and some road signs ( some were already there). I like it.

Even my GF Heather likes it. It wouldn't have mattered...lol...., full time GF, part time lives here, has her own house/co-owns with her Twin Sister up north she stays at now and then,

as opposed to a fence she hated. I spoke to the new neighbour today and suggested maybe next year ( he seemed ok) a replacement, unless it blows down again this year! Ha! He has 2 small kids, so I'd be thinking soon if I was him.

 

[Uncle Shish]

I had a very modest haul from ML and Monroe these past few days. The cool thing I gained is I put a whole lot more faces with usernames, had some great laughs and met some great souls around the fire pit at night.
I picked up this Firestone Super Cruiser project/ or maniacal pursuit of original paint parts from Cindy and Randy.
Tank, rack and light have been spray painted, unfortunately.

A nice saddle from Brian, repop persons pedals from bike squirrel, a Cyclone coaster shirt from JimmyV, Kool Kats from Jeff, another set of pedals and a egg bell from Joe, cool stickers in trade with Quinn, and some cool shop art.