About 100 bidders bought hundreds of items ranging from the 300- square-foot video scoreboard that sold for $1,900 to fire extinguishers that sold for $13 as the Tulsa Drillers closed the chapter on the "old" Drillers Stadium at 15th Street and Yale Avenue on Tuesday.
Ben & Jerry’s produces a wide variety of super-premium ice cream and ice cream novelties, using high-quality ingredients including milk and cream from family farmers who pledge not to treat their cows with the synthetic hormone rBGH. The company states its position on rBGH on its labels. Ben and Jerry’s products are distributed nationwide and in selected foreign countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchise Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops, restaurants and other venues. Ben & Jerry’s, a Vermont corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever, operates its business on a three-part Mission Statement emphasizing product quality, economic reward and a commitment to the community. The goal of the social mission is to integrate a concern for the community into as many day to day business operations as possible while maintaining the product and economic missions. The move to Fair Trade ingredients is driven by that commitment. For more visit www.benjerry.com.BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Vermont’s iconic ice cream makers, known for progressive social action as much as for the big chunks and swirls in their ice cream, announced their newest leader today from the home office.Auctioneer Jay Litchfield, of 20bid30.com, auctioned off equipment and memorabilia from the stadium in about five hours.The price for the iconic 60-by-30-foot scoreboard disappointed Litchfield."The county will have a clean facility they can do something with and the Drillers got rid of a lot of excess equipment," he said.In typical company spirit, a ‘Meet & Greet & Eat’ media event has been planned for Tuesday, March 23rd – the Company’s national Free Cone Day - to introduce the new CEO and take questions about his role and his vision for the company. And all who attend get a free scoop.Litchfield sold baseball and concessions equipment, including ice cream makers, cotton candy machines, hot dog cookers, ovens and deep fat fryers. He sold a batting cage, nettings, TVs, a computer, misting fans, a walk-in cooler and many other items.And, like all auctions, there are winners and losers, Litchfield said. Tulsa County and the Drillers came out on top, however."It is kind of sad, because it was worth a lot more money," he said. "That is a problem, the buyer has to spend money to get it down. A lot of times in this business you have clients that pay a lot less for something because they have to do the work to get it loose."Historically best known as maker of iconic Utah signs such as the Snelgrove ice cream cone and the Deeburger Clown, YESCO's signs today are visible from Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles (Disney's Soda Fountain and Studio Store) to Rockefeller Center in New York City (NBC). In Las Vegas, Young Electric Sign is long known for Wendover Will and Vegas Vic, the classic towering cowboy signs, as well as the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. Today, YESCO" signs grace most of the major casinos in Las Vegas, including Caesar's Palace, the Sahara, the Hard Rock Cafe, Bally's, Wynn and New York, New York. The massive, historic Coca-Cola sign seen by San Franciscans was recently restored and made 80 percent more energy efficient by YESCO. YESCO is a crucial partner in the Amber Alert Program, instantaneously advising drivers through electronic signage when a child is endangered."It is never a specific item," he said. "There were some orange lockers that I would not give $5 for, but because they came from the Tulsa Drillers, they sold for $100," he said. "There was a cooler that normally would sell for $300 or $400, that sold for less than $100. You just never know.""It went about as we expected," he said.
"The county will have a clean facility they can do something with and the Drillers got rid of a lot of excess equipment," he said.
Author: D Ray Tuttle
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