Bomp! P

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Text on Button BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! P
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Bubble P encircled by red-lettered exclamations on a pink background.

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Part of a button series for Bomp! Records.

Independent record label, Bomp! Records, was founded by Greg Shaw in 1974.  He also edited and published Who Put The Bomp, a rock magazine, from 1970-1979.  The record label featured music from punk, garage rock, new wave, neo-psychedelia and other genres.  Bump! artists have included Iggy & The Stooges, Devo, The Romantics, The Plimsouls, The Weirdos and Tell-Tale Hearts.  Greg Shaw passed away on October 19, 2004.  His lifelong business partner and ex-wife, Suzy Shaw, currently presides over Bomp!.

Catalog ID MU0271

Bomp! M

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Text on Button BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! M
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Bubble M encircled by red-lettered exclamations on a light green background.

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Part of a button series for Bomp! Records.

Independent record label, Bomp! Records, was founded by Greg Shaw in 1974.  He also edited and published Who Put The Bomp, a rock magazine, from 1970-1979.  The record label featured music from punk, garage rock, new wave, neo-psychedelia and other genres.  Bump! artists have included Iggy & The Stooges, Devo, The Romantics, The Plimsouls, The Weirdos and Tell-Tale Hearts.  Greg Shaw passed away on October 19, 2004.  His lifelong business partner and ex-wife, Suzy Shaw, currently presides over Bomp!.

Catalog ID MU0270

Bomp! O

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Text on Button BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! O
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Bubble O encircled by red-lettered exclamations on a light yellow background.

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Part of a button series for Bomp! Records.

Independent record label, Bomp! Records, was founded by Greg Shaw in 1974.  He also edited and published Who Put The Bomp, a rock magazine, from 1970-1979.  The record label featured music from punk, garage rock, new wave, neo-psychedelia and other genres.  Bump! artists have included Iggy & The Stooges, Devo, The Romantics, The Plimsouls, The Weirdos and Tell-Tale Hearts.  Greg Shaw passed away on October 19, 2004.  His lifelong business partner and ex-wife, Suzy Shaw, currently presides over Bomp!.

Catalog ID MU0269

BOMP! B

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Text on Button BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! B
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Bubble B encircled by red-lettered exclamations on a light blue background.

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Part of a button series for Bomp! Records.

Independent record label, Bomp! Records, was founded by Greg Shaw in 1974.  He also edited and published Who Put The Bomp, a rock magazine, from 1970-1979.  The record label featured music from punk, garage rock, new wave, neo-psychedelia and other genres.  Bump! artists have included Iggy & The Stooges, Devo, The Romantics, The Plimsouls, The Weirdos and Tell-Tale Hearts.  Greg Shaw passed away on October 19, 2004.  His lifelong business partner and ex-wife, Suzy Shaw, currently presides over Bomp!.

 

Catalog ID MU0268

Skippy White's

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Text on Button Skippy White's
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Long-faced drawing of a man's bust, presumably Skippy, in black to the left of black text in peculiar block font on a white back ground.

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Skippy White is a radio personality, music historian, and record store owner. He started his career in radio broadcasting on WILD in Boston in 1961, the same year he opened his first record store. In 2002, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award at Symphony Hall from the Doo-Wop Hall of Fame, and in 2006, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Urban Music Awards at the Berklee Performance Center. White still hosts the show "Time Tunnel" on Boston's TOUCH 106.1 FM and "Gospel Train" on WRCA 1330 AM. He also maintains his record store in Egleston Square and is writing a book about his experiences in the record and radio business.

Catalog ID AD0183

106 FM KMEL

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Text on Button 106
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Red, yellow, and green illustrated neon numbers with a Bactrian (two humped) camel wearing headphones and jumping out of the zero on a blue background.  

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106 FM KMEL is a radio station located in San Francisco, California. The station has gone through a number of different formats since it first started broadcasting in the 1940s. It had different call letters until 1977 when it was rebranded KMEL, playing Album-Oriented Rock music. The mascot for this incarnation of the station was a camel with a set of wireless headphones. In the 1980s the station switched to a Contemporary Hit radio format, then began broadcasting Crossover Pop to target young multiracial audiences in the 1990s. In 1992, the station changed hands and was guided into its current Urban Contemporary format.

Catalog ID AD0163

Schucks

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Text on Button I helped SCHUCKS trim 10,000 turkeys
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Red text, except SCHUCK'S logo in blue, on a white background.  

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Edwin and Anna Schnuck along with their sons founded Schnuck Markets in north St. Louis, Missouri in 1939.  Today, the retail grocery chain has expanded to 100 stores in five Midwestern states.  

Catalog ID CL0395

Restless Records

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Text on Button R RESTLESS™
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A large Purple R with light gray lines slashed through it on a light gray background.  Text is written in purple underneath the R.   

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Achievement Badge & Trophy Co.
Los Angeles
483-7981 

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Restless Records was a record label that was founded in 1985 and specialized in releasing rock albums for artists that were not considered popular enough to have their records released by major distributors. They originally specialized in producing LP records and tapes. After several changes in ownership, Restless Records is currently owned by Warner Music Group.

Catalog ID MU0274

Westfalia Lunen Blue

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Text on Button MINING PROGRESS COAL IS THE Future WESTFALIA LUNEN
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Capitalized, black text (except "Future," which is written in alternating yellow, red, and orange lettering) on a blue background.  

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Westfalia-Lunen is a German-based hard coal mining equipment manufacturing company. The products are marketed by Mining Progress Inc. Westfalia-Lunen is the predecessor of Caterpillar which is an American heavy equipment manufacturing company. In 1993, Westfalia-Lunen introduced the first and only mine-worthy plow control system. Westfalia-Lunen and Mining Progress Inc. distributed wearable memorabilia including stickers and buttons in the 1970s supporting coal mining efforts that featured positive messages on the impact of coal for the economy.

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Caterpillar Inc. (n.d.). The Story of the Caterpillar Name. Retrieved July 11, 2020, from https://www.caterpillar.com/en/company/history/archive/caterpillar-name…

Paschedag, U. (2014). Plow Technology — History and the State of the Industry [PDF]. Caterpillar Inc.

Redscoalminingstickers. (n.d.). Nice set of 11 Australia Westfalia-Lunen coal mining stickers # 410. Retrieved July 11, 2020, from https://www.ebay.com/itm/NICE-SET-OF-11-AUSTRALIA-WESTFALIA-LUNEN-COAL-…

Star Chaser's Realm. (2020, May 21). Vintage 1970s Mining Progress Westfalia Lunen Coal Miner Sticker Mining Hard Hat. Retrieved July 11, 2020, from https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1970s-Mining-Progress-Westfalia-Lunen-…

Trackemas, J. D. (2013). Factors considered for increasing longwall panel width [Dissertation]. Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 175. https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/175 

Catalog ID AD0199

Discovery Tours

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Text on Button A WHOLE NEW WORLD IS UNDER THE SEA DISCOVERY TOURS
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The button is divided into four quadrants, each a different color of blue.  The bottom two quadrants show an underwater scene and the top two quadrants show the sky above the water.  The left two quadrants are set in the nighttime while the right two quadrants are set in the daytime.  A green boat with underwater windows and a white railing is the middle of the button.  Three main fish are on the button: a brown fish in on the bottom left corner, an orange fish is on the bottom middle, and a black and red fish is jumping out of the water near the boat.  A school of five dark blue fish are on the bottom right.  There is tan sand on the bottom and text is curved around the top and bottom edges of the button.

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Discovery Tours was a family owned and operated travel business providing service to school groups. It began operations in 1972 and filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

Catalog ID AD0210