Winter Parker Pages

[Bill Murphy]

Kevin, thanks for the Doctor Snavely tidbits. One of our members, a neighbor of mine now gone, owned some of Doctor Snavely's guns. His father was a close friend of Snavely's. The neighbor and I spent time talking about the old Parker days, pre PGCA, when we were teenagers and twenty somethings. He and I seemed to be the last Parker guys that remember Willie Eckmeier, a collector famous for destroying many great Parkers in the name of upgrading. Willie is the fellow who offered me a job when I got home from the Army in 1969. Willie knew very little about truth in advertising, so I had to decline his offer, but I may have lost a chance to purchase or inherit his International Harvester business.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Thanks for the kudos guys! Our individual copies arrived today and the box with our editor copies arrived Friday. Contributor copies were mailed today.

Many thanks to our members that contributed their "First Parker" stories. It was fun putting that article together.