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DonDittmar 
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:52am |
Topic has been beaten like a dead horse on here I know, but I am looking for old dealers that are out of business, but the original buildings are still there. An example would be Patterson & Sons just to the east of St Johns, MI. I am compiling a list and putting there locations on my google maps. I would eventually like to visit these places and talk with the owners and maybe possibly write a book.........probably never happen but you got to start some place.
Who had the dealership where the "Allis-Chalmers" letters were cemented into the roof?
Any dealers or locations you could share with me I would appreciate it
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Rhoadesy_65
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 9:12am |
Our local Agco/New holland dealer was an AC Dealer since the late 30s. North Star Implement in North Star, Ohio. North Star Hardware & Implement Company169 S. Main St.Their website shows their history https://www.northstarimplement.com/about.htm
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Farmin' with 1981 7010 PD, Great Grandpas 1947 Farmall H, JD 7000 planter, JD model B drill, NH 316 Baler, NH 1411 Discbine ,JD 100 8 Shank Chisel. Darke County OH
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Allis-Chalmers Damon
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:05am |
This would be a good place to start: It shows locations of past dealerships. My great grandfather owned one in Deer Park, WA. The original building is still standing and is now an Automotive Repair Shop.
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Steve Bright
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:10am |
Trafalgar Hardware, Allis Chalmers and New Idea. John Lancaster was the last owner before they Closed. He still farms a small farm in Trafalgar, Indiana 46181
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irlbeck A-C'S
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 12:23pm |
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I think Austin(WI) had a thread going with a list of dealerships. He was working on some kind of project with the info.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 12:34pm |
Larrick equipment White Post or Boyce VA Patterson Equipment,Fairfield VA Profitt Exchange,Profitt VA Holmes Equipment,Elkwood VA Dealer can't remember the name Brandy Station VA Gill Implement Orange VA Vess Equipment,Staunton VA Crewe Tractor Crewe VA Harmon Equipment,Harrisonburg VA Valley Implement,Harrisonburg VA All I can remember right now
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 2:31pm |
These guys. Same building Massey now. Got to be the coolest dealer tag ever. 
Edited by exSW - 29 Aug 2019 at 2:32pm
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 4:00pm |
In Md, AA county farmer's co-op, Glen Burnie, MD. Gibson's farm equipment, Ingleside, Md. Schafer's farm equipment, Burrsville -Denton Rd, not sure of the town... 
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 5:45pm |
I saw that decal on that D 21 last year at the IL GOTO too. It does catch your eye. Tim
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:49pm |
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Don I remember when that picture of that closed dealership was posted on here. The allis chalmers was cemented on top of the building. I was thinking it was somewhere in Missouri??? but I could be wrong. It was a really neat building but looked to be falling in.
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Mikez
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:20pm |
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Are you going to go travel around and visit them.
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DonDittmar
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 5:53am |
 Mikez wrote:
Are you going to go travel around and visit them. |
I would like to some day
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Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start
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Mikez
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 7:35am |
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Yea that would be cool.
You can put us on your list.
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 9:16am |
DonDittmar wrote:
Topic has been beaten like a dead horse on here I know, but I am looking for old dealers that are out of business, but the original buildings are still there. An example would be Patterson & Sons just to the east of St Johns, MI. I am compiling a list and putting there locations on my google maps. I would eventually like to visit these places and talk with the owners and maybe possibly write a book.........probably never happen but you got to start some place.
Who had the dealership where the "Allis-Chalmers" letters were cemented into the roof?
Any dealers or locations you could share with me I would appreciate it |
Suess of Stewartville MN. Building burned but the owner, maybe co-owner with his now passed father is still around doing consignment auctions in Racine Mn. He is retiring from that too in December. There was a write up on them in some magazine not too long ago. Where I used to work in Blooming Prairie MN, Peterson Implement, the owners are all gone and the building is converted into a NAPA auto shop.
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DonDittmar
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 9:58am |
Found these guys. CJ Wonsidler from Quakerstown PA
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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"
1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start
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DonDittmar
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:07am |
Mikez wrote:
Yea that would be cool.
You can put us on your list. |
My Idea is more of a pictorial history book. I would like to go and speak to the owners/families, get pictures of the dealership(or what remains) as it sits today and photos from when it was in its hayday and also a written history on each dealer.
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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"
1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start
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DonDittmar
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:08am |
Still looking for the dealership with the letters cemented in the top of the roof........
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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"
1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 11:08am |
Morrison Implement 647 W Lincolnway Morrison, Il 61270 Ron Stichter Jeff Hanson
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 12:19pm |
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McGrath implement in New Hampton Iowa. Now called Agland same family
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 2:37pm |
allis g wrote:
McGrath implement in New Hampton Iowa. Now called Agland same family |
They are a good dealer by my reckoning.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 9:13pm |
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J.C. Archer and Son, Inc., Shipman, IL. Building is still there on IL. Rt. 16 and it's still called "The Archer Building". It's a post, metal frame building. Original dealership was in an old gas station east of the Archer Building. Old gas station is now a restaurant. (Yum, right?)
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Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 9:18pm |
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Sorry to say, my grandfather's old A-C dealership in Jerseyville, IL. no longer exists. I'd be hard pressed to even guess the location. Super Wal-Mart, Burger King, Arbys, and other businesses have taken over all the properties in that area. It was called Hauter Farm Supply. I don't even have a picture of it. My dad and grandmother had absolutely no interest in the business so Grandpa sold it.
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Posted: 29 Jun 2024 at 4:24am |
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Norwalk Michigan. Charles Smazal opened a small Allis Chalmers dealership way back. As a child in the 1960s I listened to old Charlie's stories of taking in Teams on trade for a new tractor. He claimed he had the first electric arc welder in manistee county at his dealership. The original small wood building is still there. I assume the new tractors sat outside and his office and repair/mechanics shop was inside. Norwalk, located about 12 miles north of Manistee, on Old US-31 used to be on the main highway US-31. It had a small railroad spur large enough for 3 or 4 railcars for loading and unloading tractors, local fruit and produce for the market. Back then Norwalk had a General Store that was also the Post Office, Filling Station and Passenger Rail service. A railroad spur with a small warehouse, a railroad repair shack that housed a Put-Put railcar. The Put-Put had a small one cylinder long stroke gasoline engine that replace the two-man yoke that powered the repair car. Norwalk also had Charlie's tractor dealership, four houses and a little factory that I do not know what its product was. Maybe a wristwatch or clock factory?
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Posted: 29 Jun 2024 at 10:28pm |
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The Hancock Farm Equipment buildings still exist in Herman and Tekamah Nebraska.
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Dennis J OPKs
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Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 7:53am |
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I believe Hancock also had a location in Blair. My Dad bought a D 17 from them. There were AC dealers sprinkled all over that country. I doubt that the building is still there.
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