A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisitions

Those are really cool Spruuu!

New in the mail today, one medal I have been on the lookout for:

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS
1833 1933
CHICAGO

Obverse: A very strong Art Deco design of a seated woman holding a log cabin with a stylized modern city, Chicago, rising behind

The reverse depicts the layout of the fair grounds.

Brass, 1-1/2" diameter.
Wording on headband on woman I WILL.

I wasn't aware of the motto significance until I went looking:
https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/...nicipal.html

At bottom, GREENDUCK CO, CHI. a Chicago medal producer.




Edit: dang the image almost looks better than the actual medal, not bad now for a cell ophone camera!

And a pic of it ready to slip into my album...

I'm content to make my own "slabs". ;) These appear difficult to find raw mint state. I saw it too. Good luck!

Excellent!

Nice adds, 999fine and TNG.

1960's Clines Corners New Mexico Good Luck Souvenir

I do think this dates to the early 1960's because of the style and the use of periods in the abbreviation of New Mexico.

Clines Corners is located in in Torrance County, New Mexico, at the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Route 285. The community was established in 1937 by Roy E. Cline, who built a rest stop at what was then the intersection of U.S. Route 66 and US 285; the rest stop today, is known as Clines Corners Retail Center.

Roy E. Cline had an idea, give road weary travelers a place to stop, shop and eat.
In 1934, his vision came to life with the opening of a filling station and cafe at the intersection of New Mexico State Highways 6 and 2 between Moriarty and Santa Rosa New Mexico.

In 1937, The American Association of State Highway Officials approved the Santa Rosa Cutoff that shortened Route 66. New Mexico Highway 6 moved slightly north and was renamed Route 66/U.S. 285.
This posed a problem for Roy Cline and he would have to move the gas station and restaurant to the new Route 66. He purchased the land northwest of the intersecting Highway and convinced map makers to place Clines Corners on the map. Today, travelers can find Clines Corners in the same spot that Roy Cline purchased in 1937.

In 1939 Cline sold his property to S. Lynn Smith ("Smitty") who worked the place with his wife. The Smiths prospered and expanded their business. After Smitty's death in 1961 his wife Helen sold Clines Corners.
Over the years, Clines Corners Retail Center has had 5 owners.

Today in 2019, over the 82 years that Clines Corners has been serving the travelers along I-40, the facility has grown to match the demands of it's customers. Clines is no longer a little building and cafe, but has grown to 30,000 square feet of retail space, two convenience filling stations, an RV park, and restaurants.

I have been through there too in the early 70's. I am sure we stopped there but things like that didn't matter much at the time. It was no Wall Drug or South of The Border. LOL