American Toolbox

Image Time • Perryopolis PA

Posted on November 12, 2017

You never know what can be learned with eyes open to your surroundings.  So many people bury their faces toward sophisticated electronic gadgets.  Do they escape opportunities to exercise imagination?  Prepare for the future by exploring the past?

A typical service station waiting room appears the perfect nest of boredom.  Whip out “phones”, text furiously to important people, pace outside, shout into a line mic while gesturing animatedly.  Yes, you ARE important, you tell the world.  But maybe time waiting is time to think?  Introspection has its rewards.

Full circle was I rewarded recently by keeping the phone in its pocket.  With phoneless pacing at the tire shop I’m able to admire this handsome wall clock from all angles.  Smiles as its origin is discovered.  Right here in the Keystone State!  Pics are snapped and filed.  The thought of an article?  Not yet.

“Don’t Give Up the Ship”

But what is this Perryopolis?  Surrounded by the finest Greek pizzerias outside Italy, I’m confident of the town’s origins.  WRONG!  Perryopolis was named for 28-year old Hero Of Lake Erie, Oliver Hazard Perry.  The town?  Laid out by George Washington himself, called New Boston at the time.  

Big SMILING thumbs up for making the finest marketing clocks, Image Time!  Continental / General Tire picked a winner!  Wow, more delicious history exposed.  Uncle Jerry worked at a beer distributor his whole life, bringing home plaster Rolling Rock displays and the occasional wall clock.  Bet the clocks were made by Image Time!