It was 1976, Ned.  I still have mine sitting on the bookshelf in my office!

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Marshalltown provided free trowels to registrants at an SHA meeting
one year. I saved mine unscarred until I lost all my others and was
forced to use the souvenir.

A temporary employee, who has not since been rehired, once used our
company's expense account to buy a Goldblatt trowel and left the
damned foul thing in the equipment locker. Fortunately someone else
lifted the trowel before this ignominy was made public.

One should note that Michael Stewart's new textbook illustrates a
brace of Goldblatts as recommended tools. Do we know this fellow?


At 9:39 PM -0500 3/14/02, Ron May wrote:
>Marshalltown trowels were the thing 35 years ago, so I cant answer
>your query. I recall a hot debate over beer at one of the SHA
>Conferences (Tucson 1968?) over whether Marshalltown or Goldblatt
>made the better trowel. This led to the same query to the late Paul
>H. Ezell, who promptly took all trowels not marked Marshalltown,
>placing them between cracks in the concrete parking lot at the Royal
>Presidio de San Diego, standing on it until it bent or broke, then
>proclaiming none of them stood up as well as Marshalltowns! Of
>course, he never put the Marshalltown to the same test!
>
>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.