Basa75@aol.com, on 12/16/00 5:57 PM, said: >In the bottom drawer of the desk that belonged to my grandparents, then my >parents, and now me are two rulers.One says, "Visit Wetherbee Bros. New >Sporting Goods Store 39 N. Prairie St.". On the back it says, "Athletic >Goods, Velocipedes, Wagons, Toys & Electrical Supplies". >The second ruler is for "Peoples Trust & Savings Bank Galesburg Illinois , >We invite the children to open Savings Accounts". On the back, "Save your >Pennies, Nickels and Dimes and open an account with Peoples Trust & Savings >Bank , Interest Paid on Deposits. One Dollar will start you Begin to save >now". >Are these establishments still in Galesburg and does anyone have a guess on >the age of both rulers? My 1957 Galesburg telephone book shows Wetherbee's but not People's Bank. Fortunately, this agrees with my memory! <grin> I believe Peoples Bank appeared on the scene in the 1960s, but am fuzzy on that -- and I don't know if it was a new institution or an old one renamed/reorganized. If my memory serves me correctly, there were only three banks in Galesburg in the 1950s. Ooops; just checked the phone book, and that agrees with me -- Bank of Galesburg, 1st Bank & Trust, Farmers & Mechanics -- and in Knoxville, Farmers National Bank. My gut-level reaction is that the two rulers are not from the same era. The term velocipede was not used (at least that I remember) when I grew up in Galesburg (1940s-1950s), but was a relic of an earlier time. Unless I am wrong about Peoples Bank, it is from a far later time period. Tom Lundeen