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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
Now, please save these dates!! Please - don't be "that guy" who emails me on the 30th to tell me you "can't open the Parker Website". I'll already know it is offline - and also know that you are "that guy"...
I'll take this notice up and down over the next week or so - and leave it up during the final few days before shutting it off on the 29th..
John D.
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Yes, Jim, that is the way I remember it, but was afraid to spread my praise for my friend, Peter, that far without reviewing the articles. Mr. Johnson and I did not discuss "the book" that much when we would meet. I was not much of a Parker researcher in those pre-PGCA days. Mostly we would discuss guns we would see at shows. I did not own many Parkers in those days and finding more Parkers was more important to me than the history of the company. Mr. Johnson seemed similarly inclined. He was eager to learn more about the guns, having little experience with them beyond doing research for the book. I wish I had persuaded him to do what I was doing, shooting and hunting with Parkers on a weekly, sometimes daily basis.
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Bruce,
There is some interesting information in that box of papers actually, I know because I've seen photocopies of it. Some letters between Charles Parker and Johnson come to mind specifically. To say it's a bunch of scribbled notes is kinda stupid knowing that sort of thing is in there to be looked over. There's also letters from former employees and letters from family members of dead employees too. Maybe we're talking about a different batch of papers here, but I know what I saw copies of and read had come from Johnson at least. Maybe that's not what your "friend" bought after Johnson died, I just know what I saw several years ago.
Destry
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