It is not well known, but Kodak used to make specially packaged products and special memorabilia for projects at Kodak Park and WW. I have a drawer full of pins, rolls of film and special cups to hallmark projects I have worked on or things that Kodak was involved in.
I have Olympics pins, HS film coffee mugs, anniversary films, Veterans day pins, George Eastman pins, etc. etc.
I have been wondering if anyone out there collects them.
Of course, I also have my own collection of Cape Canaveral pins from John Glenn's launch and Alan Shepards launch.
Anyone out there collect this stuff too?
PE
I don't exactly collect, but I have a few odds and ends I have acquired over the last thirty years.
I have a commemorative Kodak T-shirt and coffee mug, from 1980, which I believe was the 100th anniversary of the company's founding. I got those when I took a course on 2610 printers at the Marketing Education Center in Rochester (if memory serves, it is actually in the town of Henrietta; PE, do I have that right?). The T-shirt got me instant attention at a company barbeque a few years ago; our Kodak rep saw the shirt, and made a beeline for me, introduced himself, and asked where I got it. I also have a bunch of other Kodak coffee mugs; some I swapped for, and some I pulled out of the garbage can. One of these mugs had been in use as a pen and pencil holder; another was covered in dirt and mould when it was rescued. They now grace my collection of mugs, and whenever I offer coffee to visitors, the comment is something like, "...oh, I guess you're a photographer..." I also have another (non-Kodak) mug, which bears the legend, "Old photographers never die, they just go out of focus."
I also have a deck of Kodak playing cards, now retired after many years of faithful service as a euchre deck. They were used at lunch, when I wasn't playing backgammon.
I have some old stuff that the photofinisher I worked for was discarding, such as metal boxes for keeping finished photofinishing orders in, and one of the metal signs, which advertised Kodak film. The sign is in storage, but the box has short extension cords in it, in my basement workshop.
Pens? Lots and lots, including four colour a Q-Lab pen, which I retired when the last E-6 line I was responsible for was closed; I also have the last page of the last Y-55 plot, which has been matted and framed. Most of the pens are now ink-less, but one pen is on duty, appropriately enough, in my darkroom.
I USED to have a 45th (I think) anniversary pin for the introduction of Tri-X; has anybody seen it lately?
Of yes, and my wife has a pair of Kodak socks, which matches my old Kodak golf shirt.