Like boys everywhere in America, Jim Thielen collected baseball cards from the 1950s and 1960s. Then he unloaded them -- to his everlasting regret. “Sold them to my cousin,” said the 52-year-old ...

Dwayne Rogers got into collecting crate labels like a lot of other folks attracted to this hobby: He grew up in the fruit business. Rogers’ family owned a pear farm near Auburn. As a young man, he ...

Eye-catching images depicting California as a paradise of health and sunshine blanketed the country during the state’s citrus heyday from the mid-1880s to 1955. Paper labels with vibrant colors were ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Lifelong Yakima Valley resident Mike Doty collects fruit crate labels for the thrill of the hunt. “That’s what it’s all about. Stuff we’ve never seen before,” he said. Thomas Hull, a ...

NEW YORK -- Five years ago, before chomping an apple or peeling a banana, members of the Slusarek family began detaching the little labels from the fruit and sticking them on their kitchen cabinets.

For decades, Orange County lived up to its name as a major producer of citrus, despite significant ups and downs, until the killer freezes of the 1980s. On cool winter nights during our citrus heydays ...

Pat Jacobsen got hooked on collecting things at the age of 8, when his dad gave him his stamp and coin collections. But he quickly realized that it was too expensive to add to his collections if he ...

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They were 10-by-11-inch paper squares of romance, slapped onto wooden crates and trucked north to market Florida fruit: part identifier, part advertising, part tourism. And part imagination in ...

Larry Kotz has never been a farmer, but for decades he has been maintaining an antique collection that makes his den at home in Vernon, B.C., look like a lush orchard during harvest season. The ...