| Author | Message | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 26 Registered: 1-2004 |
I was looking around for some information on Carl McDowell to post on here for Lisa and Richard, and look what I ran across.  | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 27 Registered: 1-2004 |
Tex, I have no idea how I got this. I'm certainly glad that I did get it though. | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 28 Registered: 1-2004 |
I hadn't looked in our old catalog file in ages, but I found some kind of interesting things. Here is another one.  | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 29 Registered: 1-2004 |
Look at the prices on the boots. And, they can be made without toe boxes, but it doesn't give you a break on the prices. ;) | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 30 Registered: 1-2004 |
Here is a page from the Hyer Boot Company when it was in Olathe, Kansas. The date on the catalog is 1962.  | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 31 Registered: 1-2004 |
Dan Freeman, in Vermont sent is this old Hyer catalog that he found. The man that ordered from the boots lived in Vermont, and wrote the prices next to each boot. | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 32 Registered: 1-2004 |
Hammon Boot Company was located in Gardner, Ks.  | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 33 Registered: 1-2004 |
The Hammon measuring chart looks identical to the measuring chart that we have for Olathe Boot Company. Even down to the warning about "Boots Burn- Don't Put Near Heat" | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 34 Registered: 1-2004 |
I'm guessing that this was Dixon Boot Company, but I really have no idea. The only reason I say that is because Dixon Boots is in the upper right hand of this chart.  | ||
| Tex Robin (Tex_robin)
New member Username: Tex_robin Post Number: 56 Registered: 1-2004 |
Carrlyn, Yeah, I had that brochure made up in the early 80s, before the computer and permanent moustache And my hair was thicker and browner then too. I only have a few of those left..It's a collectors item now! | ||
| Mark W. Fletcher (Bronbo)
New member Username: Bronbo Post Number: 8 Registered: 1-2004 |
Tex, Am I reading right - "it takes 3 to 6 weeks to get to them?" Carrlyn, Norfleet was the head bootmaker at Dixon Boots, I believe in the 70s. | ||
| Tex Robin (Tex_robin)
New member Username: Tex_robin Post Number: 58 Registered: 1-2004 |
Mark, I usually pasted a current waiting time over that And it usually read 6mts to a year....TR | ||
| Mark W. Fletcher (Bronbo)
New member Username: Bronbo Post Number: 377 Registered: 1-2004 |
Carrlyn, I did get some information about J K Norfleet from Smitty of Blucher and Debbie Meek with James Leddy. Norfleet was one of the last owners of Dixon Boots (I think next to last). He lives in Tucson AZ now. I don't think he makes boots anymore, since he has his boots made at James Leddy. In fact I have an old boot of his that he had made at James many years ago. | ||
| Carrlyn Miller (Carrlyn)
New member Username: Carrlyn Post Number: 447 Registered: 1-2004 |
Interesting Mark, Gosh, how old is he now? He must really be up there. Thanks for passing along that info | ||
| Mark W. Fletcher (Bronbo)
New member Username: Bronbo Post Number: 378 Registered: 1-2004 |
Smitty told me that the old Dixon shop had lots of pictures of several country and western stars, movie stars and autographs that the Dixon brothers had during the years they were in business, he wondered where the pictures went to. It is tragic that items like that get lost through the years. I know back years ago stuff like that wasn’t important to bootmakers, but it seems like boot history buffs like me and others, and even grandchildren of bootmakers or western store owners, are interested in it today. Hopefully all of you are keeping good documentation/photographs etc and make sure it is passed down for safe keeping. A few days ago there was a post on the Quick Topic board by a grand-daughter of Charlie Garrison who died before she was born. There were also previous posts by L. White’s family and of the old Del Norte Western Store in El Paso requesting info. | ||
| Dan Hickman (Dan_hickman)
New member Username: Dan_hickman Post Number: 35 Registered: 9-2009 |
Does anyone have a Hyer boot catalog from the 60s or 70s? Thanks,,Dan | ||
| Mark W. Fletcher (Bronbo)
Member Username: Bronbo Post Number: 1214 Registered: 1-2004 |
Dan, I have a old Hyer catalog, I can't remember what year. Give me a couple days to look around. Mark | ||
| Dan Hickman (Dan_hickman)
New member Username: Dan_hickman Post Number: 36 Registered: 9-2009 |
Thanks Mark. What I am looking for is the, for a lack of better words, is a ankle boot with a zipper on the front outside. I think they called it a Raceaway......Dan | ||
| Mark W. Fletcher (Bronbo)
Member Username: Bronbo Post Number: 1215 Registered: 1-2004 |
Dan, No luck. The youngest catalog is 1953 in my Hyer catalog collection. No front zipper ankle boots. Mark |