ASHTRAY

Description: TOP SIDE OF ASHTRAY HAS A LIGHT REDDISH BROWN GLAZE ON IT (DARKER IN SOME AREAS THAN OTHERS). THERE ARE THREE SETS OF TWO RIDGES IN RIM (FOR HOLDING CIGARETTES). PRINTED ON RIM IS "IRONSIDE & PARK LTD. LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.". IN CENTER OF ASHTRAY READS " "SANTIZED" CLEANING AT ITS BEST DYEING & TAILORING LETHBRIDGE PHONE 4141 COLEMAN PHONE 130". BOTTOM SIDE IS WHITE. ON CENTER BOTTOM IS MANUFACTURER'S MARK, IN BROWN. IT CONSISTS OF THE IMAGE OF A MEXICAN? - A FIGURE WEARING A LARGE SOMBRERO HAT (COVERING HIS FACE) AND A BLANKET WRAPPED AROUND HIM (COVERING MOST OF HIS BODY). ABOVE THE FIGURE READS "MEDICINE HAT POTTERIES".

History: THE LISTING FOR IRONSIDE & PARK DRYCLEANERS APPEARS IN HENDERSON DIRECTORIES FIRST IN 1927. IN 1951 THE COMPANY CHANGED ITS NAME TO PARKS LTD., AND LATER EVOLVED INTO PARK-NEILSON DRY CLEANERS (STILL OPERATING IN 2001). MATERIAL WAS IN DONORS POSSESSION FOR MAX. 5 YEARS. MATERIAL CAME FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES BANK, PRIOR TO DONORS POSSESSION. DONORS COLLECTED MATERIAL WHILE EMPLOYEES AT BANK FOR 6 YEARS, 1990-1996. MATERIAL DONATED AS DONORS CANNOT CARE FOR OR DISPLAY PROPERLY. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A COLLECTIONS AUDIT, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF ARTIFACTS DONATED BY BARBARA AND DIRK POOL. ATTACHED TO THE PERMANENT FILE IS THE OBITUARY FOR DIRK POOL. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS FROM THAT PUBLICATION: DIRK POOL WAS BORN ON MARCH 18, 1949. HE AND HIS WIFE, BARBARA POOL, HAD FIVE CHILDREN: SANDIY, CHARLES, MICHELLE, CHARMAINE, AND TREVOR. DIRK POOL PASSED AWAY ON OCTOBER 17, 2017. PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, INCLUDING THE HARD COPY OF POOL'S OBITUARY.