They tend to be in diners and small businesses around the area. There were small companies that would make them and peddle them to the businesses and for a fee include them on the map aalong with landmarks.
Might call thrift stores in the area you grew up, ask if they have any. Or if not, offer to pay them a finder fee to call you when one comes in.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for. They used to be everywhere.
I guess it's going to be more of a hit all the antique stores back home and see if one's available.
Ya, there wasn’t a single name for them, I’ve seen many different companies names who made them. Ack before major corporations obliterated everything interesting and unique about towns and made them all cookie cutter images of each other.
I was driving in California once and had that conversation. I said that we could take any off ramp and it would be the same. Same stores, same layout, same corporate owners. Over 700 miles and 5 off ramps, the same damn business complexes and stores at every one. Even when there was slight variation they were all still owned by the same parent co with only 2 or 3 spaces left open to independent stores, often a hair place or cell phone store.
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