Latest Addition: Puleo's Dairy Milk Bottle

This quart size Puleo's Dairy glass bottle is the latest item in the collection. As you can see it contained some of their yummy egg nog. As we tweeted a while ago this year they offer their egg nog in vintage glass bottles.

For display purposes it is filled with Styrofoam beads so you can see the designs. The front has the Puleo's Dairy logo and the back has (in sort of the 1940's look) "Wise mothers choose Puleo's milk".

The egg nog in glass bottles can still be purchased. This was bought from their downtown Salem location on Washington st. It retails for $4.00.

JC Oil Company Thermometer

I recently hit one of the few stores I regularly go to and saw this J.C. Company Oils thermometer on the shelf and couldn't leave it there. The only clue it is from Salem is the telephone number witch is listed as PIoneer 4-4277 which means it most likely dates to post WWII through the 1960's.

An interesting bit of trivia about Salem's early phone exchange being PIoneer is that we got it since Alexander Graham Bell lived in Salem when he invented the telephone. So, he was a pioneer in the telephone industry and Salem got the exchange.

Political season is upon us!

With the Massachusetts state primary just days away, we've been adding several items in the past days. If you are interested in what we've got in our mailbox just check out the Political section at salemarchives.org. Either search the page for 2010 or scroll down till you reach the statewide offices!

Also if you get some political junk in your mailbox related to Massachusetts or Salem, you can always check out our contact us page to see how you can donate yours to us.

Always remember we "Preserve the past and present for the future!"

http://salemarchives.org/political.htm

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Now there is a new way for salemarchives.org to keep a running archive of up to the latest news views and interesting items about Salem.

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Photographs from the Salem Harborwalk Opening

Today was the grand opening ceremony for Salem's South River Harbor Walk. The Celebration featured music by Mamadu, speeches by Mayor Driscoll, Lt. Gov Murray, State Rep Keenan and Ward Councilor McCarthy. Followed by a dance performance.

View the photos from my Flickr Page here

Today is the 96th Anniversary of the Great Salem Fire!

Today is 96th anniversary of the Great Salem Fire.

You can see post cards of the damage here: click here or see the collections copies of the definitive book on the fire The Salem Fire by Arthur B Jones: here

Memorial Day Parade in Salem

If you couldn't be in Salem for the holiday or just missed the parade then your in luck. We have pictures up on the web. The photos are of almost every group in the parade. Also there is another set from the Catholic Mass the day before at St. John the Baptist church. Here is a link to Flickr for the photos. Either click the link below or cut and paste the link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13213131@N06/sets/72157624058025721/