dgblake.com  Some rights reserved.   January 28, 2009

If you are interested in the history of these clocks, by all means continue reading. For those not interested in reading a bunch of words, just this much will appear on your screen. It is a somewhat interesting story.

I had a customer I did telephone work for in Wilmington and he made clocks. He had a small shop with some woodworking tools and he made wooden frames and took glass and silk screened an image on one side of the glass and put in a clock works and made a wall clock. He moved his business and I sold him a phone system for his new location and I was there one day and he had two pallets of clocks in the back part of the warehouse and I asked him about them for some reason and he told me they were all of the overruns and extras he had accumulated prior to his move to the new facility. He told me there were over 700 clocks and he would take $1500 for all of them. I bought them and rented a U-Haul and loaded it up with clocks. There were all kinds of clocks. There were several 10 X 13 inch college basketball clocks, different schools and several 20 X 13 inch college football clocks that featured a player in team uniform and the mascot printed on the inside of the glass front. There were also several Coke and Pepsi and Sundrop and clocks that had been made to hang in Corporate offices and promotion clocks to be hung in convenience stores and kitchen clocks and pendulum clocks and regulator style clocks. All kinds of clocks that my wife and I have sold either at flea markets or on the internet. Most of these clocks were made in the early 80’s and are solid wood frames. Most have never had a battery in them unless I displayed them at a flea market and then took the battery out. So, most of them are brand new movements and work great the moment you put a battery in them. I have had some bad clock works, but they can be replaced and I have had to do so once or twice. The clock works are still available at WalMart for example. If you want one of these clocks, you must give me about 3 days to get it shipped so I can make sure the clock works are operating properly. I bought some shipping boxes for the sizes of the clocks so I can pack them properly. Otherwise the glass breaks. I am down to about 100 clocks now. Most of them are the larger football clocks and there are some of the basketball clocks and the logo clocks that are about a 10 inch plastic disk with the college name and team name and mascot silk screened on the face. There is no protective cover over the hands of the clock.

I don’t have a site store to process sales. I don’t make that many sales. If you want to learn more about one of the clocks, or to order, please email me or call me and we will discuss the details. I only have what are indicated on the page with the clocks, so if it isn’t there I don’t have it and I can’t get it. These clocks are no longer being made and the silk screened image on the inside of the glass should last forever.

Email me at mcsgary@gmail.com or

Call me at 910-395-1515

By the way. One interesting thing. In the load of clocks were some regulator style round faced glass front clocks with a pendulum. Of these regulator clocks, there was one that had printing on the face of the clock under the glass. It said “The Blakes”. My name is Blake and there is no way of anyone knowing I would end up with these two pallets of clocks. I have never had opportunity to ask the owner of the business if he recalls any significance to the name on the clock. He has since purchased a phone system from another vendor and I no longer do business with him. Interesting.

Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care?

If so I can’t imagine why

We’ve all got time enough to cry.

Chicago

Written by Robert Lamm