There are a jillion of them...Pappy promoted the heck out of the Place...Old Carnival Guy, you know.
To get things started here's one of the rarest.
Pappy was a teetotaler...He didn't have to drink because his son, Harold, drank about anything you could pour in a glass...Whiskey, Drano, 2000 flushes, who knows?
Since he was non-alcohol in the early days he had concessionaires that ran bars in Harolds.
This tray is super scarce...Leo was Leo Schwarz and he apparently had these made up to promote his little slice of heaven in Harolds.
Later, Pappy realized that there was big money in booze and threw them all out. Then had the famous "Whiskey Waterfall"...Was it Jim Beam??? I don't know. There were a ton of Jim Beam Ceramic's from Harolds. Harold mentions in "I Want to Quit Winners" that they were the biggest seller of whiskey in the United States...Who knows...
Still a very rare item and not many have survived. I'm proud to have one.
Mark
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