I love gunny sacks and have collected very many over some 50 years of collecting.
Saturday's farmer's market gave me an idea! All the "fruits" of late summer are here except apples.
Dan
Bill Gass wrote:
I'm gonna stuff YOU in a gunny sack if ya don't quit postin all these beautiful colors of yummy food !
..I started loving "gunny sacks" long ago while still living in Iowa(1947-1958). While most that have any "logo" are from outside the USofA, I still like them for a backdrop.
My only clients are eateries, they liked that. I get paid in "food". It works for Suzanne and I.
Thanks Bill!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote: ..I started loving "gunny sacks" long ago while still living in Iowa(1947-1958). While most that have any "logo" are from outside the USofA, I still like them for a backdrop.
My only clients are eateries, they liked that. I get paid in "food". It works for Suzanne and I.
Thanks Bill!
Dan
Ya, them ole gunny sacks are neat and about a thing of the past.
douter wrote:
Now there's a term I have not heard for a long while, Dan'l!
Douglas
I grew up as a lad in Iowa Douglas(1947-1958). Many of my elementary school chums, male and female, were corn farmers. Corn seed came in "gunny" sacks. In the Spring and Fall some of us boys would help the families load corn seed onto "spreaders". In the fall the harvester would shuck the corn and we would load the "gunny sacks" for seed corn for the next season OR for seed examination and genetics for Iowa St Univ. In Iowa most corn was called "horse corn". Feed and grain use..not the sweet corn type. Way back then corn was loaded into the gunny sacks and taken to a "corn crib" for storage.
It was fun and the end of the day was a huge picnic!
Here in Maryland, my very small town had 2 grain mills and a vegetable cannery. I got burlap sacks from them to store "crap" in as I grew up.
The logo I place in the post is from the Jeppi Nut company in Baltimore. Nuts came in burlap and so did coca beans from which they made chocolate from.
And as Paul Harvey used to say.."And so goes the rest of the story..."
Thanks!
Dan
"Located at 3 East Diamond Avenue, the Thomas Cannery operated from 1918 to 1962 and was the only food cannery in Montgomery County, as well a major employer in Gaithersburg. The cannery was damaged by a fire in 1962 and never resumed operation after that. The photo on the left was taken in 1986".......I grew up 2-4 blocks on "the other side of the tracks..."! RR went right through town and a spur is right here also.
