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Post #667766 by Pittsburgh pauly on Mon, Feb 18, 2013 7:55 AM

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Took this picture awhile ago, but forgot to post it.
In Moundsville, WV there's a museum at the mound from which the town takes it's name, exhibits talk about local history in addition to the Adena people who built the mound and one is titled: "Homer Laughlin China Company: West Virginia’s Gift to the World". In this exhibit they have "the OTHER Great Wall of China"
And wouldn't you know it, there on the wall is Homer Laughlin's Trader Vic's logo plate.

Homer Laughlin's mentioned in this thread, the HLC plate with the menehune border is shown, and the TV logo plate from Sterling China, but it looks like they produced these as well at some point.

If you want to know more about the mound:
http://www.wvculture.org/museum/GraveCreekmod.html
The plate on wall of china is shown in the video at 3:09.

It's very close to Young's Cafeteria, which is tiki in WV!
http://critiki.com/location/?loc_id=571