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Comfort King Cab Company Logo Decal
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| Accession #: | 4262.8a |
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| Title: | Comfort King Cab Company Logo Decal |
| Object Type: | Decal |
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| Physical Description: | Four Comfort King Cab Company logo decal stickers, one includes the phone number and name Mike E. Johnson (8a), two do not include the name and phone number but are large (8b, 8c), and a fourth includes the name and phone number but is smaller (8d). All four decals depict a striped blue and white sky, black lettering, a man dressed in red inside a yellow cab on a green combine in a yellow field. |
| Description: | Mike Johnson built his first hillside combine cab in an old Colfax garage as "a matter of survival." He suffered from extreme allergies at a time when combine drivers had no shelter from the dusty wheat harvest. In 1968, he formed the "Comfort King Cab" corporation, gradually improving models to include air conditioning and filtering. During winter months workers from local families helped him manufacture the cabs, as many as 100 per year. Production stopped in 1977, just after the John Deere company began producing combines with cabs already installed. |
| Category: | History |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Agriculture (Industry)
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| Geographical Reference: | Colfax (Washington->Whitman County) |
| Dimensions: |
height 8 3/4"
width 13"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
paper (fiber product) (
plastic (organic material) ( |
| Marks/Inscription: |
Comfort King Cab Mfg. Inc. Box 447 Colfax, Wash.
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Mike and Karen Johnson, 2011 |
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