It always happens this way…I stick up a new page update, like the history page, and then I find a new link I oughta put up, just when I move on to working on somethin’ else. Anyway, I thought this was interesting (it’s a piece of the research center at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum)…
“GUIDE to the
BLUCHER CUSTOM BOOT COMPANY COLLECTION
1915-1999
(Fitting Books, 1915-1982 in 218 volumes; Indexes, 1915-1936 in 5 volumes;
Catalogs, ca. 1989-1998 & Archival Records, 1986-1999 in 6 document
boxes)
The Fitting books do reflect the ups and downs of the boot business through two world wars, through the depression years, through the 1950s and the golden age of television westerns. Some consider the golden age of boot making occurred between 1940 and 1965. Certainly this collection reflects the economics, geographical influences, and artistic & design changes of this era.”
I like the “context” this places around the fitting books. I was talking to some longtime Nocona factory employees about the time a couple of years ago when the factory shut down….mounds of machinery, and materials…a little of it goin’ to laid off employees, most of it goin’ to waste. No one cared about the paper…the patterns and records.
