The Nevada Daily Mail and Memories of Papa and Grandma By Marty & Kaye
I remember Shelley and I telling Papa that we wanted some play money. I must have been around nine or ten. Papa used the copy machine at the Daily Mail or the bank to make copies of the money in his wallet. He put down 20s, 10s, 5s, and 1s. He would copy both sides and bring them home in sheets for us to cut out and paste together. This was back when making photocopies was a fairly new technology and expensive, so it was a special treat. I recall having huge stacks of fake cash but I don't remember what we did with it -- pretended we were a bank or a store or just rich maybe.
Papa and Grandma would bring all kinds of thrown away or leftover stuffhome for us from the buildings that they cleaned. Shelley and I each had a fully supplied 'office' complete with various carbon-copy forms, paper,rubber stamps, pens, pencils, ink pads, bank bags, file boxes, scissors,etc. I kept my office supplies in a cardboard flat and spent hours stamping papers and drawing.
From the newspaper buildings, they would bring us old clip art books. They had illustrated art of people shopping, cars, household items,televisions, cars, Christmas decorations, turkeys for Thanksgiving,Valentine's day hearts, and so on. The papers used them for filler or to create ads. I remember Shelley and I cutting images out of the books to make cards or posters. We also got long, wide rolls of newsprint that were the last remnants of the massive rolls used for the printing presses. They were great for coloring. We thought we had it made and looked forward to Papa and Grandma coming home to see what new stuff they would bring us.
By Marty
Marty and Shelley also got a bunch of the 1978 Nevada Coloring Book printed at the Daily Mail-they threw away the misprints and Papa brought them home to Marty and Shelley. Barbara still has copies of the original Coloring Book. By Kaye
1978 PEO coloring book makes a lasting mark on the area
Thursday, August 28, 2008 Nevada Daily Mail
The 1978 Nevada Coloring Book, published by PEO Chapter KK, Nevada.
The 1978 Nevada Coloring Book, published by PEO Chapter KK, Nevada.
Inspiration can come from anywhere; and in 1978, the inspiration for a coloring book distributed as a fundraiser for the PEO Chapter KK in Nevada came from all around them.
Beverly Denman, Nevada, said that her mother had suggested that Kansas City had a coloring book around that same time, so why couldn't Nevada? The book was popular by all accounts, and included 27 pages of local structures and sights to be colored. Made of heavy paper, with a still heavier cover, the volume also includes brief section of historical information about each of the sketches, current as of publication in 1978.
"A lot of women from out of town sent for the book," the only one of its kind that has been produced by the PEO chapter, said Dodi Chew.
Denman pointed to names on the first page, where artists and others are credited with the work -- some of them well-known local artists. "Nancy Denman, that's my daughter. Then this one, of course (Pam Chew Duckwall) is Dodi's (Chew) daughter."
Sketches were by Dodi Chew, Nancy Denman, Pam Chew Duckwall, Terry Patterson and Susan Vickers. Harry Chew -- decease some 30 years, now is credited with the cover design and Betty Sterett is credited with historical design. Guy Krause and Kendall Vickers worked on the project as consultants, and Bill Pugh was the typist.
Later, the coloring book was the inspiration for yet another project, an embroidered quilt created by the United Methodist Women that now hangs in the Vernon County Arts Council's gallery -- fittingly, located on the lower level of the Carnegie Building, one of the structures featured in the coloring book. The quilt project used a dozen drawings, several of which were from the book.
"They didn't use all of the designs for the quilt," said Dodi Chew, who recalled that artists had simply chosen some of the historical structures around the city to sketch -- more than could be included in one quilt project, and only some of the designs featured on the quilt were from the book.
Other drawings featured on that quilt were by Gwen Dryer, Mary Ann Lovekamp, O.T. Simmons and Jason Testman.
(Advertisement) The United Methodist Women have produced other quilts as well, some featuring additional historical structures and themes.
"That one was last year's," Chew said.
The 1978 effort was the only such coloring book the PEO chapter has produced; but, Beverly Denman said, reflectively, "Maybe we could do another one."
Beverly Denman, Nevada, said that her mother had suggested that Kansas City had a coloring book around that same time, so why couldn't Nevada? The book was popular by all accounts, and included 27 pages of local structures and sights to be colored. Made of heavy paper, with a still heavier cover, the volume also includes brief section of historical information about each of the sketches, current as of publication in 1978.
"A lot of women from out of town sent for the book," the only one of its kind that has been produced by the PEO chapter, said Dodi Chew.
Denman pointed to names on the first page, where artists and others are credited with the work -- some of them well-known local artists. "Nancy Denman, that's my daughter. Then this one, of course (Pam Chew Duckwall) is Dodi's (Chew) daughter."
Sketches were by Dodi Chew, Nancy Denman, Pam Chew Duckwall, Terry Patterson and Susan Vickers. Harry Chew -- decease some 30 years, now is credited with the cover design and Betty Sterett is credited with historical design. Guy Krause and Kendall Vickers worked on the project as consultants, and Bill Pugh was the typist.
Later, the coloring book was the inspiration for yet another project, an embroidered quilt created by the United Methodist Women that now hangs in the Vernon County Arts Council's gallery -- fittingly, located on the lower level of the Carnegie Building, one of the structures featured in the coloring book. The quilt project used a dozen drawings, several of which were from the book.
"They didn't use all of the designs for the quilt," said Dodi Chew, who recalled that artists had simply chosen some of the historical structures around the city to sketch -- more than could be included in one quilt project, and only some of the designs featured on the quilt were from the book.
Other drawings featured on that quilt were by Gwen Dryer, Mary Ann Lovekamp, O.T. Simmons and Jason Testman.
(Advertisement) The United Methodist Women have produced other quilts as well, some featuring additional historical structures and themes.
"That one was last year's," Chew said.
The 1978 effort was the only such coloring book the PEO chapter has produced; but, Beverly Denman said, reflectively, "Maybe we could do another one."
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