My thanks to readers that responded to my info on Jay Quinby.  I'm glad
you enjoyed it.  And to Robbie, my thanks for the little bio he added
about your obedient.  But I hasten to point out that his description
_was_ accurate, not _is._  Sadly, Yesteryear isn't what it used to be.

Yesteryear Museum was the only institution of its type in the western
hemisphere, and lasted from about 1970 to early 1978, in the Morris
County Cultural Center outside Morristown, New Jersey, the area around
which I spent most of my life.  The building sits at the edge of
Washington Valley, home of my youth known to my family and our
neighbors as "God's Country".

By the end of 1977, we at Yesteryear were being forced out against our
wishes and were unable to find another suitable home.  We transferred
our Yesteryear souvenir shop filled with relevant items to the nearby
town of Boonton, New Jersey, which was and probably still is filled
with other kinds of antique, craft and nostalgia shops.  We got
a pretty good start until killed off by the gasoline shortages of the
late 1970s.

We had promoted a brochure that each Boonton shop distributed, which
claimed that the unique town of Boonton was "worth a ride from
anywhere".  Unfortunately, during the long lines and the 1970s price
runups (don't they look piddling now!) people wouldn't drive out even
to get groceries more than once a week, let alone "drive from anywhere"
to go antiqueing or feed their nostalgia.

Much of the stuff I own is now slowly but surely being sold via eBay,
now including my beloved Steinway XR Duo-Art piano.  Once it is sold,
I will start selling rolls:  65, 88, DA, Ampico, miscellaneous.  But
I'd like to find a decent, reasonably-priced upright Duo-Art so I can
keep and enjoy a representative collection of rolls out of the thousands
I will be dispersing.

Bestus to all
Lee Munsick