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Thor's Second Trip to WOL-August 2000

I am telling the story once more about my exciting trip to Luger Heaven back in day. Also show casing many of Ralph's Collection in my story. If you use Facebook you can view it here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/949288218445972/

If you dont use Facebook, no worries, "C'est la vie"

you can view without being a member of my TLC group

https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/RalphWOL.jpg

A fairly historical photo as it's all gone now.

Thor,
what was behind the middle far wall center wood panels behind the sofa area ?
ie - the slider? panel area under the winged ones and the tall steins on top ledge?

good picture of Ralph !

thanks
Bill

That's simply unbelieveable!! Must have been quite an estate sale.

Bill, I have no idea, Ralph never mentioned it or showed that wall area to me. Maybe GT know.
Many new members may not know this, but the lugerforum had two meetings at Ralphs a few years ago, like 2002 time frame. Fun mets.
https://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/Lugerfriends.jpg

Perfect~ I'm sorry I missed it! TKS Ted!

I can't remember ever seeing those cabinets open? Most do not realize that to get into Ralphs Luger room, you normally had to be personally invited and set an appointment time ... hardly ever were there more than one or two people at one time, and even then it was not just a loose number of guns to inspect! They were all arraigned, indexed, and coded and normally, you didn't touch unless Ralph procured it for you? He was very cordial to the Luger forum group and lets up have pretty much free reign on inspecting anything outside a display cabinet? Also, the room was usually less bright then the picture show, and usually it was hard to determine condition just by the shear number and overwhelming examples available.. In short, it was like a blue metal blurrr ...
Ralph and I were good friends, but ironically, we never talked Lugers, always kids and family and life's battles as they came to be... I do know that the Luger holster in the back wall LH cabinet was a minty DLU pigskin hard shell, because I mention to Ralph, the black on top had faded from being continuously exposed to the light in the display cabinet?... Of course, he still wouldn't sell it to me! :) best to all, til...lat'r.....GT:cheers:

Debby and I met him in Orlando during a family vacation~ He and Nancy were wonderful!! Thank You Ted for keeping his alive!

Neat picture - I put it into my desktop wallpaper rotation.

Debby, Me, Ralph and his wife Nancy in Orlando lunch!

Ted, I remember them all in that photo except number 1, & 5 (left to right) in the back row, and bottom right corner in the front row... Can you tell me their names? And who took the photo?

One is Frank Manders son? I think so, and the other is William Forseyth (was Ralphs right hand go to guy! We are good friends) ... the other fellow I probably know but don't recognize...GT:cheers:

Thank you for the pictures, Could you post the narrative? Where is the picture of you and your lovely wife?

GT has the people named correctly. Saddly at least 3 of these sweet people are gone now.

That guy standing next to Ralph in the last photo sure looks a lot younger than you Ted! :D

Here are pictures I took of the same weekend ;)

I was there too.:bigbye: