| The following images and descriptions all came from an old Cretors catalogue in my collection. (It is my understanding that owning one of these machines was and is like having a license to print money!) Eric |
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cretors Improved No. 1 (From Eric Beheim)
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Brings to mind the Bobby Gibbs peanut pitch with Gopher's show that extolled the virtue of the Cliff Vargas Peanut Company of Macon, Georgia and concluded with:......it can honestly be said that Mr. Vargas knows how to roast your nuts!
I always liked when Gibbs would point out that "Little Timmy" the butcher, was either putting his mother through college or paying for his cousins leukemia treatment, one bag at a time.
Several years back Terry Finney had a hot dog cart he would park on the square in Paris everyday. I would go by and BS from time to time. At 12:00 the lunch crowd would show up and be lined up for half a block daily. It gave the hill billies of Paris, TX a chance to feel like they were from NYC.
Pulling a little bag of popcorn out of the microwave just can't measure up to the romance and thrill of getting a bag of corn from this wagon.
Cretors is still in business, but doesn’t make popcorn wagons like these anymore. (There might be somebody out there who is making reproductions.) If you see a popcorn wagon in operation, it’s probably an antique that has been refurbished to look like it just left the factory. (There are people out there who specialize in restoring old popcorn wagons!) There is even a Popcorn Museum in Marion, Ohio that has a collection of restored machines. Their website is:
http://www.wyandotpopcornmus.com/
They could probably tell you where all the surviving machines are located, and could put you in touch with the people who restore them.
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