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On behalf of the Nichols Family I would like to
gratefully acknowledge the generous contributions to this website, both by
advertisers and also by those who have given of their time, their photos, their
knowledge, their insight and their support of my efforts to give something back
to the toy community that has so richly blessed our lives—mine in a
personal way and America's in general, for there was a time when we had some
real heroes and we went out and played our games and emulated these
legends—both real and imagined. I can't help but think that those days are
not really gone. Historians will proudly tell you (thus trying to build
themselves up in your eyes with their "insight") that the Old West we remember
never happened, and there is a small amount of truth in that. But the greater
truth is that in the movies and TV shows we watched, there was a Code that was
instilled in many of us that remains to this day: A Code of Honor and decency
that transcends the "reality" that was The West.
We had our
heroes and we knew the difference between Right and Wrong and though some
didn't live up to those ideals, I think that the country as a whole was better
off with their toy guns, battling it out on the sandlots and "forts" that we
created than we are now when the games have turned sour and deadly and society
blames objects rather than enforce a strict Moral Code. It's so much easier to
blame a toy than it is to blame an entire nation that is on the verge of
completely losing its way.
There were millions of us out there who wore our
sixguns and yet we had a complete grasp between the "real" and the "imagined."
Now our TV heroes require a new vengeance, and blood must be spilled and what
comes out of their mouths is being recited by the youths of today, instead of
the Creeds of our old heros like Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger and Tonto,
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gene Autry and the other matinee idols who taught us
to live by OUR WORD.
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The names below are in alphabetical
order by first name—just to get you to read them all and find yours. If I
missed you, then let me know and I will correct that mistake, for it was an
accident, as I have started being grateful a little too late and should have
made this the first page. I apologize for that and hope to get all of you in
here. If you're not listed, then by all means, find something to contribute! It
has been said that all Evil has to do to triumph is for Good Men to do nothing.
Be a part of the solution. This site represents an important part of our
history and that bygone day should not perish.
| Adobewalls Antique
Plaza of Amarillo, Texas |
| Allan Coyle |
| Armando Roggio |
| Audrey McBride |
| BG (Yocom) Coulter |
| Belinda and Jim
Quan |
| Ben Graves |
| Ben Karr |
| Bill and Anne
Campbell |
| Bill Corbett |
| Bill Hamburg |
| Bill McDonald |
| Bill Simpson |
| Bill Zide |
| Bob and Pat DeFeis |
| Bob Demel |
| Bob Garvey |
| Bob Hosaluk |
| Bob Terry |
| Bonnie & Bud
Kirsch |
| Brad Brixey |
| Brad Wentworth |
| Braydon Harper |
| Brenda Crawford |
| Brian Oborski |
| Brian Roeder |
| Brian Wolf |
| Bruce Deas |
| Bruce Lameyer |
| Bryant H. Green |
| Bud & Edith
Dashiell |
| Carl and Ginger
Robbins |
| Carla |
| Catherine Wicker |
| Cecil Nelson |
| Charlie Barnett |
| Christian
Christensen |
| Christopher Macri |
| Chuck Layman |
| Country Junque
Shop |
| Craig Thompson, Smith
House Toys |
| Crystal Schaden |
| Curtis Singleton |
| Dan Dozier |
| Dan Morphy |
| Darin Carlson |
| Dave Albert |
| Dave Bushing |
| Dave Pierce |
| David Denton |
| Dean Gagliardotto |
| Deb Bamesberger |
| Derek Hadfield |
| Diane Dutcher |
| Dick DeArmond |
| Dick Jordan |
| Dick Presley |
| Don Callies |
| Don Dillashaw |
| Don Raker |
| Donna A. Clayton |
| Donna Lukas |
| Donna McMullen |
| Doug Hamilton |
| Doug Linzer |
| Douglas Hess |
| Douglas Skutt |
| Doug Whiteman |
| Dwain Burkholder |
| Ed Peahota |
| Ed Manes |
| Ed Myers |
| Eldon Hanley |
| Eric Przybyla |
| Eric Zurbruegg |
| Ernie Smith |
| Frank from Absecon, New
Jersey |
| Frank Palma |
| Gary DelVecchio |
| Gary Robinson |
| Gayle Bosko |
| Gene Stramel |
| George Newcomb |
| George Phillips |
| Gerald Witman |
| Glenn Marx |
| Greg Drocz |
| Guy Nichols |
| Harold Harris |
| Heinz Mueller |
| Hendrik Sharples |
| Herb Taylor |
| Howard |
| Hugo Borst |
| I Sell Neat Stuff |
| J. Harold Utley |
| J. Marcus Fultz |
| Jack Becaccio |
| Jack Rosenthal |
| James Ewings |
| Jamie Linford |
| Jan Davis |
| Jay White |
| Jeff & Sharon
Suschana |
| Jennifer Jones |
| Jennifer Lemont |
| Jerry Carney |
| Jerry Cook |
| Jerry James |
| Jil Sanders |
| Jim LaRue |
| Jim Manning |
| Jim Schleyer |
| Jim Turner |
| Jimbo Williams |
| Joe Chapman |
| Joe Garvey |
| John Cosgriff |
| John Guffey |
| John Harrison, Jr. |
| John M. Bracken |
| John R. Smith |
| John Hodge |
| John Isola |
| John Nichols |
| Joseph Nagy |
| Josh Beam |
| Judy Sinkular |
| Kathi Lamb |
| Kathy Phillips |
| Ken DaSilva-Hill -
Objet's Extraordinaire! |
| Ken Mittelsteadt |
| Ken Rigler |
| Ken Thompson |
| Kevin Derfler |
| Kevin Hoffman |
| Kim Barbare |
| Kim White |
| Koons Kollectibles |
| Larry |
| Larry & Marilyn
Tanneberg |
| Larry Johnston |
| Laura Bates |
| Lauren Tandberg |
| Lewis Ellman |
| Linetta & Ugo
Deluca |
| Louis Casamassa |
| Lucille Scott and Vic
Arcand |
| Lynn Kessler |
| McGrath-Kramersmeier
from Antiques Plus |
| Mark Leinberger |
| Mark Sangret |
| Marla Moon |
| Martin Simpson |
| Matthew Cudney |
| Melvin G. Miller Co.,
Inc. |
| Merrill Hines |
| Michael McDade |
| Michael Sheehan |
| Mick Scheib |
| Mike Merryman |
| Mike Nichols |
| Mike Rowe |
| Mike Shoen |
| Mike Tilbrook |
| Mike Vickery |
| Morphy Auctions |
| New England Auction
Gallery |
| Norm Sinski |
| Otis Melvin |
| Pandur & Levine
Auction |
| Paul Barbour |
| Paul Brenner |
| Paul M. Bouder |
| Peter Adam |
| Phil Waller |
| Phyllis Nichols |
| Randy Sykes |
| Raul Robles |
| Ray Wickline |
| RebekasGifts.Com |
| Reggie Fowler |
| Rex Casner |
| Rich Freschi |
| Rich Hall |
| Richard Hewis |
| Richard Knowles |
| Richard Simone |
| Rick McQuiston |
| Rick Paige |
| Rob |
| Robert Maiers |
| Robert Nichols |
| Robert Phelps |
| Robert Runge |
| Rob Unkefer |
| Roger Stanley |
| Roland Adams |
| Roman Rychlik |
| Ron Kelley |
| Ronnie Orlowski |
| Roy Steunenberg |
| Ruth Nichols |
| Sandee Thomas |
| Scot Peacock |
| Scott McCollum |
| Sean Chantler |
| Shannon Cole |
| Sharon and Toby
O'Brien |
| Steve Arlin |
| Steve Cohen |
| Steve Gosse |
| Steve Sheard |
| Steve Sheridan |
| Susan Kenehan |
| Talley Nichols |
| Ted Dietrich |
| The Bid Getters |
| Tim and Janie
Johnson |
| Tom Coates |
| Troy Greenwood |
| unverviking |
| VESS |
| Vic Wawiorka, Jr. |
| Vicky Griffin |
| Walt Costa |
| Willy Henson |
| www.consideritsoldauctions.com |
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Thanks
Gang!
And, of
course, my lovely wife Carol for tolerating me at the computer for
hours/days/weeks/months/years/centuries!
(I've told you a million times, I
never exaggerate!) |
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