Industrial Advertising Artifacts & Ephemera featuring Timesavers Sanders & Johnny Bean Machinery Lumber Remanufacturing. Here is a one-of-a-kind throwback group of industrial advertising artifacts from the 1970's featuring stuff from a bunch of local and international woodworking equipment manufacturers and representatives. Great for a collector, display or a prop.

INCLUDES ALL LISTED BELOW

1) Barlow tape measure w/Bean logo, 

2) Timesavers Sanders pinback button & matchbook,

3) Unopened deck of McDonough playing cards, 

4) As-new metal sticky-back shop plate, 

5) Variety of paper advertising ephemera (much of which I designed!). 

Johnny Bean Machinery was a Portland local company that specialized in selling high production woodworking equipment to factories that made things like furniture, cabinets, and various millwork. I was privileged to be a salesman for them for about seven years during the 70's. Johnny had numerous advertising trinkets and gimmicks. One of the best was a little Barlow pocket tape measure with our BEANIE logo and phone number on it. Handing that to a customer felt like giving someone a gold coin......  they were very appreciated. For many years the Johnny represented Timesavers Sanders in the Pacific Northwest. Timesavers is a company that makes heavy duty "wide belt" sanders for use in wood and metal parts manufacturing. I was surprised to learn recently that they are still chugging along after 70 years of churning out large industrial equipment and that they are still based in the Minneapolis area. One of the interesting promotional things Timesavers did was to have an "Academy" for their field reps wherein you were invited to come to Minneapolis and be schooled in all things Timesaver for a week. This was during a time when industrial sales were nearly 100% dominated by men and one of the highlights of the training slide show was a picture of a naked woman slipped in every so often ("to keep us awake")! Everyone laughed. Things have probably changed. The other two things I remember from the training were very simple: You were given a box of matchbooks in Timesaver green with your name embossed in gold and you were given a bunch of these great Timesaver pin backs with the fabulous logo of a Herculean-type figure holding back the hands of time.  I guess I could list these ephemeral items separately, but for me, they go together and I hope you will agree in your own way and put a button on your jacket, a tape measure in you pocket, and give a little strut for the good old days.