Glade Spring Depot

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Jim

That photo was taken in 1979-80, don’t have exact date handy. That was in my father’s workshop in the basement, which has since been totally finished up into an office space, you’d not recognize it today.

The Wonder Paste was great stuff, I think a neighbor gave it to me, it might have been old then. Nasty wicked stuff, I’m sure highly dangerous now. It worked great for the sign, which had about 3 layers of paint to get down to the original lettering. It took it off a layer at a time. I may do a little sidebar with the sign in the Arrow with Abe’s story, I did document the process after I began. It was a mess, and I did a lot of the stripping outside. But the finished lettering was done in the basement. I have another photo of a much younger, thinner and more hair photo of my doing the lettering.

Best
Ken Miller

> On Jul 26, 2018, at 10:12 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Ken
> 
> I noticed a gallon can of Wonder-Paste paint remover.  Is this product still available??
> An online search turned up magazine ads from the 50s and 60s, nothing else.  
> There must be a story here too. 
> 
> Sent from my digital telegraph key
> Jim Stapleton
> Northernmost VA
> 
> On Jul 26, 2018, at 09:29, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
> 
>> Here you go Andre!
>> 
>> This is the finished side.
>> 
>> I may put the sign story in with Abe’s article.
>> 
>> I’m pretty sure this was 1979-80.
>> 
>> Took me a bunch of hours to redo that lettering, I had not been out of college that many years and still remembered a bunch from my lettering classes!
>> 
>> Ken Miller
>> 
>> Moderator:
>> https://www.nwhs.org/mailinglist/2018/20180726.GladeSpring.jpg <https://www.nwhs.org/mailinglist/2018/20180726.GladeSpring.jpg>
>> 
>> Thanks Ken and Abram, for your thoughts and info. I eagerly await the coming Glade Spring Arrow encyclical!
>> Abram, your post got largely camouflaged by stray HTML, but I was able to decipher it all, I think.
>> When the Sou. 630 excursion passed by in 2014, the "new" depot was still standing, but painted in a non-regulation yellow scheme with dark racing stripes. I liked the sedate gray better.
>> And Ken, I'd love to see a photo of that old sign!
>> 
>> Andre Jackson
>> 
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