Meriden and Beyond...

[Dean Romig]

It was written up in the next issue, July/Aug 2003 of Parker Pages but had been announced in previous issues such as May/June 2003. That was before the current glossy magazine we have today when the "newsletter" was a compilation of as many as twenty-eight pages stapled together at the upper left corner.

In an attempt to find this information I thumbed through these copies and found some great reading! "Charles A. King" by Dave Suponski, "Parker Family Grave Site Restoration Project" also by Dave, That's the one with the pictures I remembered - the Sept/Oct 2002 issue. Also "Who Was George Rockwell?" by Ron Kirby - I saw on the other side of King's obelisk Rockwell's own obituary data carved into the stone equally as nicely as was King's and Ron wrote about that too. An extremely in-depth article "The Parker Half Frame" was researched and written by Ron Kirby and Harry Sanders - a very well-researched article.

This is wonderful stuff and some of it has been revisited recently but I would encourage everyone who doesn't have all of the old Parker Pages to order the DVDs and read all of this invaluable old information. This stuff isn't lost to those who only recently joined the PGCA - you can get it all on DVD. I've received my DVD and can't get over the fantastic job Robin Lewis did in putting it all together in a very professionally done archive.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

Dave Noreen posted some pictures of it a couple threads up from here.

The BH, third from the top in that rack is yours isn't it Dave? Was it yours at the time of the photo?

[Autumn Daze]

Ya Dean,Thats the old girl...She was mine then too.That gun spent it entire life on the left coast until about ten years ago... The straight grip backaction above it was mine also but someone had to have it and now its gone...

The gravesite restoration article was in two or three parts if memory serves..I have my original drafts around here someplace.

[Dean Romig]

Who displayed that pretty little .410 on the bottom?

[charlie cleveland]

always wanted me a parker 410. guess what went out and bought me a 410 stevens .... boy i saved a bundle. ha. charlie

[Autumn Daze]

Dean,It was the Connecticut collector of Parker.410's that we spoke of on Saturday.That was one of four or five he displayed.

[Dean Romig]

Ahhhh, so! I should have known.

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Dave Fuller

I asked a couple residents (gas station attendants and such) if they knew where the Parker Gun Works were located and I got some really blank stares. Someday I would like to go back and visit the places you showed us.

Dave,
Unfortunately the blank stares were most likely because they spoke little or no English.

[Autumn Daze]

For your viewing pleasure. These pictures Dean and I found in John's gun room.They were taken about 5 years before the fire that all but destroyed the factory buildings.

[Autumn Daze]

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