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"My mother and
my sister used a curling iron, or curler, for their hair. It
looked something like a large pair of shears, except that it had
no cutting blades; instead, one working part was round, about
three-eighth inch"
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Excerpt
taken from Arthur Blower's Recollections at the Turn of the
Century 1890-1913.
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of people, places or things relating to Cuyahoga Falls,
Akron or any of Summit County? Written memories, letters
or scrapbook material like an old Falls Theatre ticket
stub, anything goes. We would like to digitally scan or
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America's Oldest Figurine of a Santa The original Blue Santa pictured here was found at Lock 3 Park in Akron, Ohio during an archeological dig by The American Toy Marble Museum. It was manufactured on the site by The American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Co. in the mid - 1890s. | |
