Connecting People... Through Salt and Pepper Shakers?!

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We had moved to the US back in the 80s and so she was no longer affiliated with any universities in the state, so she didn't have any projects or programs to work with, so she started looking for rebels because one broken home balance and we were searching get another one. It would eventually break it and asked to searching for Peppermill. She started running into and as she ran into more more salt-and-pepper. He started to realize you can trace our society changing over time.

What was popular in the 20s changes by the 4070s all the way until now and that really got her passion going to she just wanted an object so simple that we all take for granted every single household in the whole is also snapshot of our history and that's put so fascinating, if not a car parked. It's not photograph it is something that's functional and the creativity behind them and the ingenuity and a lot of them is just amazing. That's how collection started. And so, over the years you started collecting more about this. This was never the intent was never to create a museum intent was just to find the creativity how unusual the artistry behind so many of these and as time went by my mom start collecting more and more, and she would pack them up from underneath the house and boxes and then one time when Christmas my brother got my mom a digital camera when they first came out, and when they first came out yet understand the digital camera. The little chip card was 16. It was the biggest one that you could get nowadays it's barely a photo you could use on the website so she would take pictures of them. She was cataloguing them. Also, my dev box she would unwrap on measure, describe, and move away, but in the evenings she would leave a few outages at all look so cute we would be like going to come back home from work or from school and we would be like. So what did you find this today. The boxes and boxes of salt-and-pepper shakers sitting around the table like any family does. We just started kind of chatting and going cool to like share this with people like Paul yeah but would we do that which we do and info slowly. The idea formed of creating a museum and then the question was where do we put a museum like this and at the time we were living in Texas and a friend of ours told us about Gatlinburg Tennessee which we had never been to before we decide to do a quick trip and so we came to the Smokies and fell in love, we thought oh my goodness, this would be a perfect place to place a museum.

And so in 2002 moved from Texas to hear and opened the salt pepper shaker museum collected for about 35 years of family activity.

We would go out and start looking for Peppermill salt shakers back then 30 or 40 years ago, flea markets, where the big thing and they were really nice and rich now flea markets are a great place to find socks but you don't really find used to find what happened is over the years, those kind of vendors moved into antique shops and antique malls, and we've been to pretty much every single state in the US and whichever antique shop renting all we would find we would definitely stop and we would start looking around at all the different booths in the scavenger hunt. A lot of people ask you, how did she know what she had and what she didn't have the condition in one of the things that she always said is if you are a collector of anything you have an affinity with that whatever subject matter is so if you are baseball collector and you have 10,000 baseball card you know exactly which cards you have in what condition they are or the ones that you're missing or if you're into comic books or anything like that you you know it becomes part of you and your interest in a hobby that you research more and start to appreciate what I remember I was in a little town called Abingdon, Virginia.

It's actually not too far from here and they had in the summertime they have an arts and craft show and they also have like a vintage market member just walking and there was like this lady that had a booth of jewelry girl hey I love anything that sparkly in finding jewelry so I like looking around and know behind the bracelet and behind the pendant. I see this black and white pepper shaker earring and Mike Mike and I'm looking.

I like the lady really quick, make a poker face. Excuse me, I'm are these things over here and she pulled it out and she's like all these are salt-and-pepper shakers weird weird okay and she said 20 but okay give you 15 and she will take it inside my heart was racing always heard about these earrings that are so shakers literally there so earrings. This will back your old fashions. You know the dated 4050 unit in the back jumping off items like cooling, you know, I go through the member not like running back to my mom like you will moments like that but there so many shakers surprise even after some years of collecting, the shakers will still run into shakers we've never seen before and just be completely blown away. So like some of the favorites are nothing Helen so they actually make the mounting Helen Volcano Mountain out of the ashes of Mount Saint Helens and it shows the volcano before it exploded and after it exploded. So the exploded the top part is one shaker and then the rest of the other shaker and then things like I like a lot of things are interactive also. So there is the Mona Lisa. And so the Mona Lisa lady. She is the salt you take her out of the frame and the frame is the pepper that ingenuity. Does that surprise and you just go like oh my goodness. Who would've thought so it's always a surprise. Oh always brings a smile to your face and and something you just want to share with others and it was just me because you think about going to antique shops and antique malls here when you're younger person you going with somebody who are in their 50s or 60s or something like that about the parents were you'll run into. I would go with my dad and you would run into tools and I would be like a dad with this far and then he would say about this would be used at a farm on the right to join a factory or bubble. Thank you so that's one of the fun things about going to antique shops and antique malls is walking down our history and culture as humans looking at all these things that used to be used.

All things are part of our history and legacy in I think they're getting forgotten. But it it was just part of the extra bonus of the adventures of going in search of salt-and-pepper shakers is also to look back at our history in this planet and you're mostly to Andrea Goodman choose pintos from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, the home of the salt and pepper shaker museum.

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So from Ohio or Michigan. In all of this during the summertime. So during the week it would give us a great opportunity to look for antique shops, antique malls and a lot of those places are found in the hearts and in the mean streets of these little towns in the middle of nowhere in the state. So you have to get off the interstate and start searching. Also, as you look around in the map distinctive flat of regular map doesn't matter what map and start looking the little town there certain words in town that will have a reference to salt and that's pretty interesting because it turns out that a lot of the roads that we use roads used for commerce and one of the main things that was sold and traded with salt because without salt. Humans can't live without salt your food would spoil because this is before refrigeration so it was a very important item in mineral that you needed so you have like salt fill which of course the basic obvious name you have salt fill and then you have all these other names that of towns that you can see like anything that has a lick on it LI CK it has to do with salt lick, because animals used to go there and they would lick salt because they need the salt thing about salt-and-pepper shakers and onions not only these containers salt-and-pepper start to peel one layer of the onion in another layer, and you get into more and more history. The Roman had a whole road their own interstate it would be like Interstate 40 kind of thing called the south of you and was a road that was only having to do with commerce of salt. There is a time when salt was more sensitive than gold so it's really amazing when you start to go into the history of something that we all take for granted that salt and with pepper that's also another fascinating thing because if it wasn't for pepper Columbus would never have gotten on the ship and tried to cross the Atlantic to get to the Indies's he ended up running into what he later called the West Indies because he was trying to find India and the spice Islands because he was in search of pepper as well as cinnamon and all of these other spices that we now take for granted but is so rich and flavorful. So it is just amazing what something so significant as a container of salt-and-pepper with the actually represent the creation the forming of salt-and-pepper shakers is very American in the sense of there's always been a container for first salt by back in 1909 1910 1911.

Around that time, Morton by name of Morton in Chicago and Detroit area.

He came up with an adjective that would help cope the little crystals salt and allow it to pour and that's when the Morton salt company became so famous with their slogan of when it rains it pours. See by finding an adjective and in creating this type of salt. He created a boom for salt shakers, and in so that created a whole industry and see you have all the salt shakers from the early 1920s and 30s thing.

But then World War II happen and with World War II, there is the occupation of the pan which is really amazing because what happened with the occupation of Japan is the American government decided that they wanted to kickstart the Japanese economy so they sent representatives from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan. From all these factories of good like teacups and candles and dishes and things like that pottery porcelain because Japan is very famous for its porcelain and pottery and artistry so they sent these representatives over there to kickstart those factories back up again for only the American market.

So they were creating items to be sold back in the United States. World War II is over. Now you have all the servicemen are coming back home have been traveling all over the world so they come back home and everybody's pumped up here is a new energy in the US I this is in the late 40s early 50s you start to get into the tradition of the road trip family everybody on the car and let's go. So they go route 66 is born going to Florida is the big tradition as well and along the way they have to buy souvenirs. What in the fine salt shakers because it also helping an economy getting boom and coming up as well. So again, there's all of this history that is something that we all take for granted the animal health how one thing is connected to another through something as simple as salt-and-pepper. We have a lot of people that will come out of the museum and they like all my God I saw this shaker haven't seen since I was five years old. Because my great, great, she had them in reading these memories to people it brings family connections that they hadn't thought about in salon. It always goes like I wonder what happened with that said, or the habit here and it's so neat ring that connection back to the family because this labor of love. It's not like were making riches here. We are sharing a passion and the love of of the items that we don't think should be taken for granted because everybody has it in their house. Betty has a computer or or has a person or whatever.

Everybody has this one thing that connects us all together so cool. My mother passed away in 2015 she passed away at the age of 80. He had a very full life very rich and full life. I we said that she had seven lifetimes in one lifetime. She would take everything to the extreme. So she didn't let anything go to waste. She hated napping or sleeping because she didn't want to miss anything anytime would go on an airplane year. She would always be looking out the window. She just loved sharing a passion for living in a passion for this world. Passion for for this planet. So she always lived to the fullest. And so when she passed away.

She was the driving force behind all of this and so for me personally. He was a stumbling because all of a sudden it was like my motors were taken away from me. I started drifting I didn't know where I'm going. Now what that be in the museum. Definitely she's here.

This is part of her will always be a part of her and just continuing to make her dream in every day thing she ever wanted to become famous or be no oceans assault lady.

Now she just wanted to share with everybody what she found fascinating. Knowing she would say luck fascinating and you just get you contagious about whatever interesting thing that she found so much hiding behind salt-and-pepper shakers, and so so it's been really needed an honor to be able to continue her legacy salt-and-pepper shakers.

Great job as always to faith in a special thanks to Andrea Lowden and also to her mom for gritting her daughter what she did teaching about the things that matter in life which the passion for the small things and family and my goodness Trevor daughter talk about her mother this way doesn't get better folks should a passion for living a passion for this world and by the way she got lost for a little bit.

It became clear what she was going to do with the rest of her life and listen to Andrea's passion. It's infectious and makes you want to just get up and start driving around with your family across country and stop little towns in Rome around the little shops by the way, you can go to Gatlinburg and visit the museum within 20,000 salt-and-pepper shakers sets 1500 pepper mills and a whole lot of stories about this country. Salt-and-pepper shaker Museum its story enemy in Andrea Lowden and her mother's story on our drinks, and more fun on your beach vacation like bottomless margaritas going snorkeling whenever I want, and smooth body and is loaded and all the daiquiris I can drink everything when you take the next level beach vacation in Mexico and the Caribbean flinching Caribbean.com. Geico asks how would you love a chance to save some money on insurance. Of course you would.

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