Memorabilia available on peaBay
Peabody Main Street is offering those living far from your hometown another chance to bid on Peabody memorabilia.
Such items often are auctioned off at the Peabody Main Street benefit auction, much to the delight of the locals who collect them.
Popular sellers are old post cards, advertising items, photographs, signs, and anything else that will bring in some bucks to advance the program.
The benefit auction has been a "sometimes annual" fund-raiser for Main Street since 1989. Alumni and former residents who might be seeking long-ago ties to the community such as a thermometer or souvenir plate from a family business have usually been left out of the bidding.
Hence, this new form of distributing Peabody memorabilia.
Bidding rules: 1) Find the coupon ad, clip, fill it out, and mail it in. 2) Bids on each item start at $20. 3) Bid high — this is a benefit auction after all. (Main Street is a 501(c)3 organization so your purchase is tax deductible.) 4) Be prepared to pay actual shipping and insurance charges in addition to your bid price. 5) Bidding for these items will end June 5. (In the case of identical bids, the winner will be determined in a drawing by Peabody Mayor Randy Dallke.)
Remember, the higher you bid, the better your chance of winning one of these fine pieces of Peabody history!
For this auction Main Street is offering an advertising plate from Lamb Coal Company (turn of the century), a Peabody State Bank "Save and Have Bank" in the original box, and the opportunity to name the circle drive and/or the sports complex at the city park.
If you are the high bidder on the signs at the park, Peabody Main Street will have the signs made to your specifications and they will remain in place for a year. At that time the opportunity to name the circle drive and the sports complex will be auctioned off again and the sign you named will be shipped to you.
Imagine the thrill of having a sign in your den or backyard that denotes your high school football field was named in your honor! You can make up all the touchdown pass stories you like and we'll never tell!
(Last year during the football playoffs, out-of-town papers called the field "the historic Oursler Sports Complex." That had been purchased at the 2003 benefit auction by David and Frank Oursler.)
So look over the merchandise, find the coupon, and send us your bid. You'll be glad to own a piece of Peabody's past, it's tax deductible, and we will appreciate your support of the Main Street program.
