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bah! nice shots, but they better check those baskets for steroids!!!!!

 

i prefer the old skool former champ, the lorain lakeview park easter basket.

those were the days when big baskets were big baskets, not dna-altered freaks of nature!  :laugh:

(thx to word of mouth blog for the 1963 shots)

 

 

 

Bah. Baskets are useless in a modern society.

 

Nice pics though!

That a lucrative business can be built upon the sale of manufactured collectibles is a testament to the frivolousness of our society. Longaberger baskets go in the same category with Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Dolls and Hallmark knicknacks.

 

A friend of mine laments that he has no space to build even a small model railroad layout in his house because his wife has filled every nook and cranny with Longaberger Baskets and continues to drag home more of them.

^She must spend every waking minute of her life dusting.

Christ.

God help us if there was an office building shaped like a beanie baby or cabbach patch doll.  A basket is bad enough.

I've taken my mom to the Longaberger Homestead in Frazeyburg numerous times.  The campus is pretty nice, but they sell mostly way overpriced things that are made in China (like regular ballpoint pens with "Longaberger" on it for $5 each).  Their basket-making facility is still there, but everything else, like the pottery and ceramics, has been outsourced overseas.

As I remember it, there was to not only be one basket building but multiple buildings were planned creating a campus near where the headquarters stands today.  When Longaberger was in their prime, there was a building off of SR 16 that housed the model depicting the long-range plans of the company: a campus of basket buildings, Disneyland-like amusement park, multiple golf courses, retail, etc. The coolest aspect was the monorail that would have connected it all via what is the Panhandle rail line.

^She must spend every waking minute of her life dusting.

No.

 

That's a big part of the problem.  :roll:

WOW! The lousy attitudes & close-mindedness of members of this forum is astounding and could not be overstated!! I find this not to be a true representation of Ohioans.

As I remember it, there was to not only be one basket building but multiple buildings were planned creating a campus near where the headquarters stands today.  When Longaberger was in their prime, there was a building off of SR 16 that housed the model depicting the long-range plans of the company: a campus of basket buildings, Disneyland-like amusement park, multiple golf courses, retail, etc. The coolest aspect was the monorail that would have connected it all via what is the Panhandle rail line.

 

There is no doubt in my mind that if Dave Longaberger was still alive, we would have seen at least some of that dream. He seemed to have a way of making the 'impossible' possible.

As an aside, although my family are not big basket collectors, they are part of the history of Longaberger. My mom had the second ever basket party and her cousin had the first. They were hosted by Dave himself, who arrived at the house in an old beat up pickup full of baskets. Also, apparently Tammi (the current CEO), and one of her sisters, who were very young at that time came with him and slept in what was to become my bed.

Also, no matter what you think of the giant baskets, Longaberger has been very good to this part of Ohio. I just hope they can make it through this current economy.