Originally Posted by Dave45681:
Originally Posted by CALNNC:
The owner of Weaver commented on the Citizens Voice site a while back that the graying of America and collectors slowing down their buying has effected their sales, at the time dropping from 30 employees to 12. ...............
The quote of 8 employees in one of the recent posts/announcements did seem much lower to me than what it seemed to be back when I was on the OGR tours about 10 years ago. (we saw enough people doing their thing, it certainly must have been more than 8 or 12 at the time)
Sad, but makes sense.
-Dave
CALNNC,
The article in the CV was written by my friend Paul Golias. He was with me today on the trip down this afternoon. He had previously done a few interviews with Joe. He wanted to interview Joe on this, our farewell tour, but Joe declined. Paul does have an article submitted to the CV about Weaver's closing, but it was written a few days ago, when the news first broke. It was supposed to be in the Sunday edition, but hasn't made it yet. Also along for the final trip, was Clem Benson, and friend from work who had also been down with me several times.
Dave,
There are now eight employees remaining. In the first photo, Todd is holding the shell for Weaver's final project, the Moxie boxcar. The second photo is yours truly with Joe, Todd, painter extraordinaire, Suzy, currently in shipping, formerly assembly and printing, Peg project relations. Peg has been a great help to our club car program over the years, Gaye, in the back row, electronics wizzard. She worked with Gary installing and repairing electronics, and assembly, Corrine I believe is head of customer service, Joe's wife is next, and Cathy, master pad printer. Anything that left her station was either perfect and ready for assembly, or discarded into the scrap box due to defects.
This was one of the toughest days spent at Weaver, saying good bye to friends I have known for over eight years.
There was some mention of some establishments that may be interested, but I'll let speculation remain anonymous at this point.
Look for an announcement coming soon to the Weaver web site regarding product availability and other news shortly. I mentioned to Joe that there may be a large number of folks attending the June 29th cash and carry sale, and the posting on the web site will focus on this.
For those of you who are kit-bashers and weather masters, the rolling stock scrap box may be of interest. Our best guess is that there are about 100 pieces in the two boxes we looked through. Contact Weaver customer service for more info.
Don