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Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard
I was thinking the brick office building was still standing as some kind of machine shop?
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You are thinking of the Parker Gun Co. Office building in Meriden, hard by the railroad tracks, which was the last stop for inspection and shipping before sending the finished guns out.
We visited it during the "Meriden Homecoming" PGCA event and tour (forget the year - 1991?). The building by then was in fact a machine shop on the first floor; the second floor "attic" was where some PGCA members discovered and salvaged a large number of individual Parker Gun work tickets (Tags) and rescued them for future documentation. (There is a list on our website). Next door was the weed-strewn lot where the Parker Bros. factory burned down. A couple of us got bricks from it as momentos.
As usual, Dave's updated reference to the 18th & Windrim St. Fox Gun Factory is accurate; do yourself a favor and cut through all the BS and speculation regarding the worth of a visit there and Google Map the address and go to "Images". There are a series of great updated photos there and you can rotate 360 degrees for images.
I almost went over there today from West Chester PA after a funeral for a friend, but ran out of time, and also forgot a large caliber handgun (dicey 'hood!)
Had a nice conversation with our buddy Don at the reception after the funeral service and reminisced about our Canada hunts, especially the Snow goose hunt north of Rimouski.
P.S. - When am I going to get my LOM case? Best, K.
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