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I don't remember if he said he rode a Harley to Oakland or bought one when he was there, but when I was little (in the mid 50's) he had a Harley 74 he fixed up and had for a while. He served in the occupation, came home, married my mom, re-joined the army and was stationed in Arkansas where he was teaching people to drive and maintain vehicles. He was on a troopship on the way to Germany when the war ended. He joined the service early, with his parents' signatures. This is interesting to me, because the song they chose is 'Dock of the Bay.' My dad, Kirby Adams, left Rotan, Texas when he was in his mid teens, to work in the shipyards in San Francisco or Oakland, at the beginning of WWII. He still has his original uniform.'Дundee Motor Pool Museum, photos on the site of the Patriot Riders Motorcycle Club. Mike's WWII interests have been growing since he attended a 50th anniversary of D-Day in Europe. Prisoners of war who were sent to the US during the war often stayed here and married.

He told us how some of the German soldiers were only 14 years old and had no training of any sort. 'Mike volunteered before WWII started, and ended up, because of his ethnic German background, as an interpreter. Go see the museum itself and hear Mike's stories, both worth far more time than Cabella's. Unfortunately our camera did not take very good indoor photographs. All it needs is someone with a lot of time to write up tags for all the objects. It subsists on donations of other people's collections (including arrowheads, armor, and various vaguely related items) and money and is a real rival to Henry Ford's collection. The museum is open Wednesdays to the general public.

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I got to play the portable chaplain's organ. The place is huge and we had a private tour. Then his antique Jeep collection expanded into antique military vehicles and took over the entire plant. Both sides wore the same buckles with different lettering. He started by stamping reproduction antique rifle parts, and civil war belt buckles. He has gradually converted it to an unexpectedly wonderful private museum of guns and other things he collects. 'Mike is a retired owner of a stamping mill that used to be run on a cooperative profit-sharing basis. Betty, who once worked as a military nurse, even baked up a batch of oatmeal cookies to send with us. We could not possibly have picked more interesting or kinder people to ask directions of the night before. 'Tuesday, after we had breakfast together, Mike gave us a quick driving tour of Dundee, and then we stopped at his Dundee Military Pool Museum. I found the following account and photo in an online travelog by Cynthia (Sindi) Keesan, We are grateful to Paul Toelken, an Estey expert, who visited this page and filled inД¬haplain's Organ at the Dundee Motor Pool Museum Less likely, her) rounds must have seen it as central for leading worship. The preacher or evangelist who carried this heavy object on his (or, Were using organs, and many Christians found that the sound of an organ turned any secular By the middle of the century, however, more churches In theД®arly nineteenth century primitivist preachers decried the use of musical instruments in Whoever used the organ must have seen it as essential to Christian worship. Has a hole, but still manages to supply some wind. The organ is powered by two foot-operated bellows our left bellow The left knee pedal brings on the four foot reeds, while the right Octaves and two ranks of reeds, one at eight foot pitch and one at four foot. Folded up, the organ is twenty inches high, twelve inchesДeep, and thirty inches wide, and can be carried by one (strong) person. 1939, but Estey built similar models up through It was manufactured by the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Portable reed organ, but they speculate it was used by an itinerant evangelist either in The library staff knows nothing about the history of this This object was found during the renovation of the library atД¬olumbia Theological Seminary. Material History of American Religion Project Traveling organ Mine is in better shape, and I'm going to collect what I learn about it here I've brought it here and changed the links so they'll still work, because I don't want to lose that page! I have an organ like this. What's in the box below is lifted whole from another site. I've learned since that it's not, but that didn't stop my interest in Chaplain's Organs, so some of what I've learned and seen is here: I have a portable Estey Organ and thought at one time it was a Chaplain's Organ. Notes from Sandra Dodd on Chaplains' Organs

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