06.11.00 -- In East Liverpool

One of the things I always look forward to when I go home(I'm originally from Newell, WV) is a trip to the large antiques mall across the river in East Liverpool, OH. I got up Sunday morning to go, but found that it opened later than usual on Sundays. Since I had the time to kill I walked around and took some pictures of some buildings in the area. The first image below is the Clock Tower. It was constructed several years ago using the same clock face from the East Liverpool High School that stood there years ago.

Across the street from the Clock Tower is the Carnegie Library. The back view in the middle image shows the clock tower in the background. The last two images in the row show the Museum of Ceramics. This houses old documents and pieces from surrounding potteries. The building used to be a post office.

After walking around for a bit I noticed that I still had some free time so I went to the Hot Dog Shop. After eating one of their hot dogs I was reminded why I never ate there all the years I'd lived in the area!

I finally got into Pottery City Antiques Mall! There are three floors to this building filled with local dinnerware (HLC, TST, Knowles, W.S. George, Hall, Harker, and more.) I found a lot of 70s dishes made by HLC which is what I've been looking for. There was one dealer in particular who had very low prices on everything. But pieces were assembled in "lots." There was a nice HLC sauceboat I would have like to have purchased, but it was priced at $15.00 for a set of six. The other five were sauceboats by other companies. I would have happily paid $2.50 for the one, but by putting in one "good" piece, I guess its a good way to get rid of pieces that would otherwise take up shelf space for months if not years.

China Specialties (makers of Moon Over Miami, Sunporch and all the new Autumn Leaf and other Hall decaled ware) had a nice selection of Mexicana on white Fiesta (see image to the right.) It is trimmed in cobalt and there are some pieces, like the sugar/creamer/tray which uses the decaled sugar and creamer on a cobalt tray. Personally I think the treatment would look much better on the yellow from new Fiesta, but this is still very nice.


When I left the mall, I went over the Chester bridge to get back to Newell. I took a little detour to take a picture of what's left of Harker Pottery. You probably can't see it in the image, but it says HARKER on the chimney.

Later I went to Calcutta (just a few miles from East Liverpool) and had dinner at my all time favorite place to eat. Some of you reading this may think I'm crazy, but as far as I'm concerned, their spaghetti sauce is the epitome of perfection. It was a far cry from the awful "death dog" from the Hot Dog Shop in East Liverpool!!



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