The license plates from left to right are: Indiana '32, California '87 (for my birth year :D), Iowa '75, Missouri '78, and Indiana '54....we still need a '90 (for Shelby's Birth year), one from the 60's, 40's, 20's, and the 1900's. So if anyone catches any let me know!
Above the cali plate is a pair of 1914 black men's rollerskates made by Chicago Rollerskate Company Ware Bros. The CRCWB was founded in 1905 by Walter Ware and became the world's leading rollerskate manufacturer. This particular style was patented in 1914 however as to the exact year of this pair I am not completely sure.
In the middle of the ledge are a birdcage, a motorcycle, a boot, an Eiffel tower replica, another birdcage, and a fire hat.
The Fire helmet is a 1960's Bullard Helmet. Founded in 1898 the Bullard Company produced personal protective equipment. They produced the first "hard-boiled" hat in 1919 for miners. For this hat they took the image of the WWI army helmet and modified it to the needs of the mining community. The company produced it's first fire helmet in 1930 following their development of the first hard hat. "In 1947 they created the first fiberglass helmet, the first NFPA-approved helmet in 1983, and the first ratchet headband used in 1987." I think that this hat is a 1960's version but there is a good chance that I am wrong. The patented 3 ribbed dome was created in 1940s out of fiberglass and changed to thermoplastics in the 50's and 60's. I have no idea the difference between the two materials so I may have dated it incorrectly!
Here is my 1955 World Book encyclopedia set. Pretty much speaks for itself but here is some history if you like. The first edition of World Book was published in 1917 and contained 8 volumes. New editions have appeared every year except 1920, 1924, and 1932. In 1961, World Book published a braille edition wich consisted of 145 volumes totaling 40,000 pages. 1964 it published a large print edition, in 1990 it published the first electronic edition, the first international version was published in 1992, and beginning in 1998 World Book has produced an online version containing articles and contents of every world book that has been published since 1922.
Lastly, is a "Drink Coca-cola delicious and refreshing" tray from 1912. Brief run-down of coca-cola: first sold in 1886 it went through a lot of legal hullabaloo until 1914. Records of the legal background of the company were burned on purpose by the owner Asa Griggs Chandler in 1910 to ensure that it would remain in his possession. This action made more sense when 1914 rolled around and the original owners came forward with the statement that their signatures had been forged on the bill of sale. Coke changed its formula to "New Coke" in April 1985 and after much backlash returned to a variation of its old formula in July 1985 calling it "Coca-cola Classic". By 2011 "Classic" had been removed from all coke products since there was no longer a need to differentiate between the classic formula and the now nonexistent "New Coke".
Phew, that was a lot of information!
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