Here is a list of goodies for the old wooden show box (which we still have), and other needed items to go to the show.
1. Dippidy Do
2. Sweet Georgia Brown
3. 3 M adhesive
4. Orvis
5. Cicuiteer I (not a II or a III), some even had the cart to pull it around on.
6. Thick nosed halters with white leather across nose strap.
7. Shearmasters (which I still use). Assorted 7112's, 20's, 13 tooth goat combs, and a special 2.5 inch Shearmaster with 10 tooth combs with 3 tooth cutters. I used to be able to run horned herford legs with those all day long.
8. Rice root brushes
9. Purple oil (which we still use)
10. a metal can of Repelex. Had a picture of a horse on it.
11. 1 foldgers can of the leftover glycerin bars ( in case of emergency)
12 Glycerin bars, black and tan, always bought the Amway, cause it was the best
13. 6 inch scotch combs, not 9, with dull, dull teeth, no skip combs back then unless you pulled them out with a pair of pliers at home. The old combs were Stone combs in KC and they molded the teeth to lead, and put the lead in the combs. If you weren't careful, you would lose the teeth and have to beat them back into the handle portion with a pair of pliers, or smash the show box lid on them to get them to stay in place.
14. Plastic wash scrubbie with the garden hose attachment (those are sooo cool).
15. Leather knee pads that Howard Fehlman made, cause anything else was for weenies. By the way, fitting mats did not exist.
16. 600# metal chute with horizontal bars, not vertical.
17. 700# end panels made from whatever you had around the barn (wood, metal)
18. 1 fan , didn't matter if you had 5 head, you took 1 fan, cause that's all you could afford. Some folks fashioned up squirrel cage fans on a pole which, in my opinion, was really stupid looking.
19. 16 foot trailer, maybe a 20'. You could load 15 head in those things, and they were only 6 feet wide.
20. Double lead neck ropes, so you could take the halters off during the day and they wouldn't get away.
21. 3 spare tires, 1 spare set of bearings for the trailer, tons of black tape, 4 way wrench, handyman jack
22. Blow bottle, made of glass, not plastic. You always put gray tape on them so no one would know what you was spraying, and so when you dropped it on the concrete, it wouldn't shatter.
23. Wooden stall card signs for the cattle with plexiglass fronts, so you could change cards, and they wouldn't blow around from the gusts of your ONE fan.
24. 3 cans of copenhagen, skoal, or anything you found on sale.
I could go on, but will need roadwarriors help, please assist.