I ran across an amazing article today in the Minneapolis-St. Paul “Daily Planet” about a gentleman, Jay Gabler, who “kept everything, every toy, every birthday card, every outgrown t-shirt, and every brochure from every tourist attraction my family ever visited.”
He talks in the article not only about his ephemera collection.. but also that of Edwin Krueger. Krueger was proprietor of the Jack Sprat Food Store in Wykoff, Minnesota.  Ed collected and collected.. for some 91 years… and as one can see he had hundreds and perhaps thousands of magazines, pamphlets, books and who knows what, all now stored in Ed’s Museum.
The article says that Jay even still has his “second-grade pencil case, a plastic cup featuring the likeness of Kent Hrbek, and several empty bottles of Mendota Springs mineral water.
Jay says that “I’m aware that such indiscriminate collecting carries a whiff of absurdity.”
It’s an interesting article for our Ephemera fans and I recommend you read it.
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.
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