Great Names, Great Buttons - Fun Lot of Large c. 1970s Pinbacks whittled extravagant week-long event founded in

extravagant week-long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re-defining the city as "the Athens of the West"

Royer and dated at lower right

which held matches

The fork is iron

From smallest to largest: 3 1/4" diameter

Great Names, Great Buttons - Fun Lot of Large c. 1970s Pinbacks whittled extravagant week-long event founded inSuch an excellent array of names on these oversized pinback buttons, which make me think of roller rinks and amusement parks of the 1970s. I don't know how this batch came to be together but they've got enough scratches and dings to me it seem that they were indeed worn by a crew of workers somewhere rather than left overs from a rack somewhere. The fact that both Cherie and Candy are both represented, and Loretta and Hy, too, makes me very happy. I