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© Yes, it snowed 2-3" last Thursday in the Waupon area, and it changed the mood of the Marsh and wildlife.
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License plate errors are always interesting. Some of the best examples of these are invert errors, caused by accidentally placing an embossing die or screened blank the wrong way in the midst of manufacture.
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For many years, dozens if not hundreds of municipalities in Wisconsin issued small metal license plates to bicycles. Although this practice faded away in favor of adhesive registration stickers in or by the '90s, once in a while you'll still see an old bike plate in use.
In the early years of bicycle registrations in the 1930s and 1940s, there was a good deal of various in the shape, size, and material used for the plates. This display of early specimens from Wisconsin cities includes a vertical plate, horizontal-oriented plates with and without a protruding tab for mounting, and small wrap-around straps. Some of these plates were made out of a fiberboard composition rather than metal; a strategy done to save rationed resources during World War II.
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Compared to the rustic quarters for the following fall, the multipurpose room commissioned as the venue for the Dairyland License Plate Collectors' Club's spring 2009 meet seemed rather prosaic by comparison...even if the state prison was half a block away!
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The Dairyland License Plate Collectors' Club is a small group of people with a specialized interest: The history, schematics, and material artifacts of vehicle registrations in Wisconsin. The group publishes a short newsletter for members and organizes a regional meet twice a year.
Five months before the fall DLPCC meet took place, I attended the club's spring 2009 meet in Waupun, Wisconsin. The city is home to the Waupun Correctional Institution; where license plates are made. By an example of unmatched irony, the license plate meet was held literally half a block away!