The Thursday, April 16, 1998 issue of the Washington Post, on page B4, featured an article titled "One Man's Hobby". This column discusses a half dozen web sites. The column starts:
On the Internet, collectors of just about anything - stamps, coins, Beanie Babies - are discovering that there are folks with similar loony leanings. Because of the Net, eccentrics can band together to create tiny little mass movements. The other day I searched the Web for sidewalk sulky enthusiasts. To no avail. But, I did stumble on some zany collections.
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Glass Insulators. According to one Web page, more than 2,000 folks collect the pretty colored glass insulators once used on telegraph and telephone hones. The objects can sell for a few dollars to more than $2,000.
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Getting there: Glass Insulators at http://www.insulators.com
Although the column featured a half dozen collectables, only one photograph was printed. The photo showed our "mascot", the CD 257 in Electric blue! Shown below. Too bad it wasn't a color photo in the newspaper!!
Your webmaster had no idea this was printed, until a collector sent in this article! Small world!
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Written Thursday, April 16, 1998