Tuesday Trivia Tie-in # 29. Leave Now!

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My posts are usually about one of the ties in my collection, but yours can be about anything! I only ask that you include some little known information that relates to your topic.

Fall is in the air, so I wanted to feature a tie appropriate to fall.

This tie is 100% imported silk, designed by Viaggio. I wanted to find some information about Viaggio, but wasn't real successful.

So instead, lets talk about leaves.

How many people think that leaves just die, and fall off the trees at this time of year, raise your hands...

Aha! Guess again!

According to this fascinating article, I found recently on an NPR site, leaves do not fall gently, but are actually thrown off by the tree. This is the time of year when the tree develops a series of cells at the base of each leaf which work to force the leaf off of the tree.


Why does it do this? Because leaves are filled with water, and when it gets cold, they would freeze and die, so the tree, in order to preserve it's own energy, gets rid of the leaves, the most vulnerable part of itself, before it gets too cold. That way it isn't keeping a bunch of useless cells around.

It's kind of a "fall cleaning."


Like trees, maybe we should use fall as a chance to go through our lives and our homes and throw out the things that will just drag us down and use up all our energy all winter, without any benefit.


As always, special thanks to Diann, for having such amazing seasonal decor around, so I alwasy have a festive and appropriate backdrop for my ties.
You may have noticed the pumkin floral arrangement that we got from the Farmers Market, or the white pumpkin gourds that grew in our compost bin in the pics.

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Tuesday Trivia Tie-in #27

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia Tie-in, where I invite and encourage everyone to join, with a post about something they find interesting.

My posts are usually about one of the ties in my collection, but yours can be about anything!I only ask that you include some little known information that relates to your topic.

This post is not going to be about a tie!

We are off on an adventure today, to get away from the city and relax for a while.

One of the things I will be doing while relaxing, is gathering leaves, berries and plants from the Eastern Teaberry, also known as American Wintergreen.

For those of us old enough to remember, Teaberry was the flavor inspiration for Clarks Teabery Gum.


If this venture is successful, I hope to feature Teaberry as an herb of the week in the very near future, so today I want to wander down a different path.

Clark's Teaberry is a brand of chewing gum. It was developed by the D. L. Clark Company and is currently a product of Clark Gum Company in Buffalo, New York and made in Mexico. The gum dates to 1900.

David L. Clark born in Ireland, came to America when he was only eight years old.
Clark entered the candy business working for a small candy manufacturer from New York. After three years as a traveling salesman with a "country wagon"; he bought the peddling wagon, horses, and merchandise and went into business for himself.

The D. L. Clark Company was founded in 1886 when Clark started manufacturing candy in two back rooms of a small house in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now Pittsburgh's North Side. When David Clark started selling candy in the streets of Pittsburgh, the prospect of becoming a giant in the confectionery industry was far from his thoughts. However, during his lifetime (1864-1939), the D. L. Clark Company became a leading candy manufacturer and the Clark bar emerged as one of the nation's favorite treats.

Clark's business grew steadily and in 1911 the company moved to larger quarters at a cracker factory on Pittsburgh's North Side. The D. L. Clark Company continued to expand and prosper at that location for 75 years, manufacturing some of America's best-known candies. The company experimented with a variety of ingredients that had never been used in candy before. Clark introduced confections filled with coconut, mint and peanut butter and was a leader in marketing candy bars. Three of its best creations were Clark, Zagnut, and Clark Coconut Crunch bar.

Clark scored an important marketing success when it introduced the five-cent-sized Clark bar. Initially, the bar was individually wrapped to facilitate shipment of candy to American troops during World War I. The Clark bar became extremely popular with the soldiers and its popularity carried over to the general public in the years following the war.

By 1920 the D. L. Clark Company was making about 150 different types of candy, including several five-cent bars, specialty items and a bulk candy line. Clark also manufactured chewing gum in a building across the street from his candy factory and in 1921 the Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company was incorporated as a separate business. The Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company made Teaberry and Tendermint gum. However, by 1931, the candy bar business had grown so large that Clark decided to specialize exclusively in candy bars and the Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company was sold and renamed the Clark Gum Company. The result was two Clark companies: The D. L. Clark Company making candy and the Clark Gum Company making gum.

In the early 1920s, the Clark Gum Company used a carpenter's level as the background image for the chewing gum flavor and underneath, the slogan, "Its On The Level." This appeared on packs of both the Teaberry and Tendermint.

As time advanced, the image was slowly "modernized". The carpenter's level steadily became simplified, losing the wood grain and detail until only a bar remains. The slogan was eventually dropped altogether. The berries were kept on the gum wrapper through the 1970's.




What things do you remember from your childhood that aren't around any longer, or are much harder to find?

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Tuesday Trivia Tie-in #26 Bountiful Harvest

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia Tie-in, where I invite and encourage everyone to join, with a post about something they find interesting.

My posts are usually about one of the ties in my collection, but yours can be about anything!I only ask that you include some little known information that relates to your topic.

I've had my tie for this week picked out for a whole week, i brought it camping with me, hoping to get some great pictures of it, and then every day that I had free to take pictures, it was raining, so I have some boring pictures of it, taken tonight, in the dark, inside our trailer.

My tie is a 100% silk tie from the Tango Collection, by Max Raab. It is titled "Americana Series, Bountiful Harvest, Circa 1939.

It shows some pictures that bring to mind fall festivals, harvest parties, and state fairs.

The Utah State Fair was always the second week in September, and it always kind of kicked off Fall for me.

So, I thought that now Labor Day is out of the way, it was time to get in the Fall mood, and nothing says Fall like a harvest.

Max Raab was an American Designer, born in Pennsylvania in 1926. He served in WWII, and after the war went to work in his father's clothing shop.

It wasn't long until he decided his father's designs were stuffy and old fashioned and he set out to design his own line.

He is credited for the popularity of the button down collar in women's wear, after he noticed so many women wearing men's shirts. He started making men's style shirts in women's sizes and was a big hit.

He took some time off clothing design to produce some movies, but returned to clothing in 1974, starting the company that later created the Tango line of neckties. He sold that line in 1998.

Max passed away in 2008, at the age of 81.

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Tuesday Trivias Tie-in #25 Ungaro Flowers.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia Tie-in, where I invite and encourage everyone to join, with a post about something they find interesting.

My posts are usually about one of the ties in my collection, but yours can be about anything!I only ask that you include some little known information that relates to your topic.

My Tie this week is one I got at a thrift store, It was tagged $1.99 but I got it half price for $1.00.

It isn't a goofy novelty tie, it doesn't have cartoon characters, space ships, crocodiles, or tiny bottles of Coke on it, in fact it doesn't seem like a tie I would normally buy, but when I saw it, it made me smile.

Sometimes that's all it takes. Diann had a similar reaction, so it now lives on my tie rack, and falls into the 'conservative enough to wear to a dignified function, but still fun enough not to be boring' category.

In a dark and dismal background, a flower is always welcome.

I guess you could call it a true international tie, because it was made in Italy, and designed and sold by a company in France.

And if I ever have occasion to wear it and meet Joan Rivers on the red carpet, I can tell her that I am wearing Ungaro.



Here is some random information about Ungaro.

Emanuel Ungaro (born 13 February 1933) is a French fashion designer. His Italian father, who fled to France because of the fascist uprising in Italy, was a tailor and he gave his son a sewing machine when he was young.

At the age of 22, he moved to Paris to work for a design house, and in 1965 opened his own fashion house in Paris.

In 2005, Ungaro retired and sold the label for $84 million.

Although my tie has no date on it, the width of 3.5" at the widest point leads me to believe it was made in the '90s. After 2000 men's ties, especially those made in Italy quickly moved to a 4" width which is the current standard width of an Italian silk tie.

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Tuesday Trivia Tie-in #24

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia Tie-in, where I invite and encourage everyone to join, with a post about something they find interesting.

My posts are usually about one of the ties in my collection, but yours can be about anything!I only ask that you include some little known information that relates to your topic.

I am going to cheat a little bit this week. I can't sit for very long at the computer yet. A few minutes at a time is about all I can do, so I am going to repost a tie.

This is the first tie I ever posted about, and is still one of my favorite ties, it came from the stand at the indoor flea market that started this whole thing. Here is the post, as it appeared January 26 2010.

My first featured tie is one of my favorites, in fact the first one that caught my eye when I walked past the stand.



Officially called “Going Nuts” this tie was designed by Vicky Davis of New York. It features a Crescent Wrench and a nut/bolt, on a vivid red background. Vicky Davis Ties are made in the USA and are 100% silk. You can see lots of other Vicky Davis patterns here.



From the front the nut/bolt looks like a tie tac. But it’s actually just an ornamental rivet.



My pictures show not only my tie, but my cool pliers tie bar that Diann got me for Christmas.
Those that follow her blog may remember seeing her talk about it here.



And for those who can’t help but notice the wrinkles in the shirt, I am not actually wearing this shirt. It is one that has not been ironed, I just grabbed it as a backdrop for the tie.


So, that is my "Going Nuts" Tie, the first tie featured in the Troy's Tuesday Tie Trivia series.

And now for some basic “wrench” trivia.

*A wrench is a tool made for tightening or loosening bolts, nuts or anything that needs to turn. Solymon Merrick patented the first wrench in 1835.


*Charles Moncky invented the monkey wrench around 1858.


*Crescent wrench is actually a brand name for an adjustable wrench which features a sliding jaw. The Crescent Tool Company’s version was so widely used that it became the common name of the tool for many situations.



*When someone twists a knee, ankle wrist or shoulder, suddenly and violently, resulting in a sprain, it is often said that they “wrenched” that particular joint.

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Tuesday Trivia Tie-in #23 - Computer Circuit Board Tie

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia Tie-in, where I invite and encourage everyone to join, with a post about something they find interesting.

This week I will also be joining

Linda at Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday
And

Diane at A Picture is Worth 1000 Words for 2nd time around Tuesday

So please check out those two parties to see lots of Nifty Thrifty and Secondhand treasures.

My posts are usually about one of the ties in my collection, but yours can be about anything! I only ask that you include some little known information that relates to your topic.

My tie this week is a Ralph Marlin Design, Created in 1994, titled Computer Circuit Board. It shows the internal parts of a computer, including circuit boards, wiring, IC Chips, and the inside of a power supply.

This is one of the ties I got in my Great Tie Purchase where I bought a whole bunch of ties, at the indoor flea market, for what worked out to about 28 cents each.

Like many of the Ralph Marlin Ties from the 90's this tie is 100% polyester. That is because the primary method for printing on fabrics in the 90's was sublimation, (or dye-sublimation) a process that worked best on synthetic fibers.


So now, how about some information about how dye sublimation works.

Sublimation is the name for the process that allows you to take a picture with a digital camera, print it out on your home printer, and iron it onto a t-shirt.

Sublimation is a chemical process where a solid is transformed directly to a gas, without ever becoming a liquid. Imagine going from an ice cube to steam, without ever being water.

Sublimation dye goes from a solid powdered toner, to a gas, when heat and pressure are applied, then, as it cools down, it quickly changes back to a solid. The dyes used in image transferring are designed to bond with polymers as they cool, so they bond with polyester, but not cotton. The higher a content of polyester in your target fabric, the brighter and cleaner your color transfer will be.

Many dye sublimation printers are available today, so people can replicate this process at home, but in the mid 90's this was a commercial process that required a lot of specialized equipment.

Today, you can scan a photo, print it with a sublimation printer and iron it onto almost anything. You can do a photo quality transfer within minutes.


In 1990-1992 I worked in the custom order department at a commercial uniform supply company. We had big machines that would make sublimation transfers one color at a time, If we wanted a two color image, we had to cut parts of one transfer and paste them to parts of another to get both colors. It was a long time consuming process, with lots of room for errors.

Then we had huge presses that would apply great pressure and heat at the same time to transfer the image to a shirt or a hat, or a patch that would be sewn onto a uniform.

Intricate or detailed projects could be jobbed out, but that was expensive. Photo quality images were not even possible for us at that time, although there was talk of machines that would be able to do this in the future.


My tie of the week, would have been printed in 1994, using what was cutting edge breakthrough technology at that time.


Now, anyone with a home computer can buy sublimation toner cartridges and print their own tie just like this at home.

Why anyone would want a tie just like this is a mystery to me. This is not a tie I see myself wearing very often. but as they say, there is no accounting for taste.




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