Monthly Archives: December 2015

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Wow has time flown by this year. We would like to Thank all of our customers for a great year. It has been a pleasure to work with each and everyone of you. We look forward with working with all of you 2016!!

New Open Circle Banner

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Great News for Retailers, Flag-Works has brought in this New Open Circle flag to our inventory. 28″ x 40″ Applique and readable on both sides!!!

We also carry other Open Banners and Open Flags. Visit our website or come into our retail store.

 

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May your Christmas be wrapped with Love, tied up with Fun, & filled with Health & Happiness!!!!

The Flag-Works Team

A Christmas Story-Rudolph

On a December night in Chicago several years ago, a little girl climbed onto her father’s lap and asked a question.  It was a simple question asked in a child’s curiosity, yet it had a heart-rending effect on Robert May.

“Daddy,” four-year-old Barbara asked, “Why isn’t my mommy just like everybody else’s mommy?”

Bob May stole a glance across his shabby two-room apartment.  On a couch lay his young wife, Evelyn, racked with cancer.  For two years she had been bed ridden; for two years all Bob’s income and smaller savings had gone to pay for treatments and medicines.

The terrible ordeal had shattered two adult lives.  Now Bob suddenly realized the happiness of his growing daughter was also in jeopardy.  As he ran his fingers through Barbara’s hair, he prayed for some satisfactory answer to her question.

Bob May knew only too well what it meant to be “different.”  As a child he had been weak and delicate.  With the innocent cruelty of children, his playmates had continually goaded the stunted, skinny lad to tears.  Later, at Dartmouth from which he was graduated in 1926, Bob May was so small that he was always being mistaken for someone’s little brother.

Nor was his adult life much happier.  Unlike many of his classmates who floated from college into plush jobs, Bob became a lowly copywriter for Montgomery Ward, the big Chicago mail-order house.  Now at 33 Bob was deep in debt, depressed, and sad.

Although Bob didn’t know it at the time, the answer he gave the tousled haired child on his lap was to bring him to fame and fortune.  It was also to bring joy to countless thousands of children like his own, Barbara.   On that December night in the shabby Chicago apartment, Bob cradled his little girl’s head against his shoulder and began to tell a story:

Once upon a time there was a reindeer named Rudolph, the only reindeer in the world that had a big red nose.  Naturally, people called him Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”  As Bob went on to tell about Rudolph, he tried desperately to communicate to Barbara the knowledge that even though some creatures of God are strange and different they often enjoy the miraculous power to make others happy.

“Rudolph,” Bob explained, “Was terribly embarrassed by his unique nose.  Other reindeer laughed at him; his mother, father and sister were mortified, too.  Even Rudolph wallowed in self-pity.”

“Why was I born with such a terrible nose?” he cried.

“Well,” continued Bob, “One Christmas Eve Santa Claus got his team of husky reindeer—Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixon—ready for their yearly trip around the world.  The entire reindeer community assembled to cheer these great heroes on their way.  But a terrible fog engulfed the earth that evening, and Santa knew that the mist was so thick he wouldn’t be able to find the chimneys.

“Suddenly, Rudolph appeared—his red nose glowing brighter than ever.  Santa sensed at once that here was the answer to his perplexing problem.  He led Rudolph to the front of the sleigh, fastened the harness, and climbed in.  They were off!  Rudolph guided Santa to every chimney that night.  Rain and fog, snow and sleet, nothing bothered Rudolph for his bright nose penetrated the mist like a beacon.

“And so it was that Rudolph became the most famous and beloved of all the reindeer.  The huge red nose he once hid in shame was now the envy of every buck and doe in the reindeer world.  Santa Claus told everyone that Rudolph had saved the day; and from that Christmas, Rudolph has been living serenely happy.”

Little Barbara laughed with glee when her father finished.  Every night she begged him to repeat the tale until finally Bob could rattle it off in his sleep.  Then at Christmas time he decided to make the story into a poem like “The Night Before Christmas” and prepared it in book form with crude pictures for Barbara’s personal gift.

Night after night Bob worked on the verses after Barbara had gone to bed for he was determined his daughter should have a worthwhile gift, even though he could not afford to buy one.

Then as Bob was about to put the finishing touches on Rudolph, tragedy struck.  Evelyn May died.  Bob, his hopes crushed, turned to Barbara as his chief comfort.  Yet, despite his grief, he sat at his desk in the quiet, now lonely, apartment and worked on Rudolph with tears in his eyes.

Shortly after Barbara had cried with joy over his handmade gift on Christmas morning, Bob was asked to an employee’s holiday party at Montgomery Ward.  He didn’t want to go, but his office associates insisted.  When Bob finally agreed, he took with him the poem and read it to the crowd.  At first the noisy throng listened in laughter and gaiety.  Then they became silent and at the end broke into spontaneous applause.  That was in 1938.

By Christmas 1947, some 6,000,000 copies of the booklet had been given away or sold, makingRudolph, one of the most widely distributed books in the world.  The demand of Rudolph—sponsored products increased so much in variety and number that educators and historians predicted Rudolph would come to occupy a permanent niche in the Christmas legend.

Through the years of unhappiness, the tragedy of his wife’s death, and his ultimate success with Rudolph, Bob May has captured a sense of serenity.  As each Christmas rolls around, he recalls with thankfulness the night when his daughter Barbara’s question inspired him to write the story.

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Residential In-ground Sectional Flagpole

Residential In-ground Sectional Flagpole
Durability and Quality.   That’s what customers look for when deciding upon a pole set to proudly fly the flag year-round.  Our pole is 40% stronger than other poles in its class. Value is what you will find with this In-ground Aluminum Pole set.

The set includes:

  • 3×5′  100% nylon American Flag
  • 16 gauge x 2″ O.D. aluminum pole with satin anodized finish.
  • 3″ gold anodized aluminum ball
  • 6″ die cast aluminum cleat.
  • Super strong halyard rope.
  • 3/8″ nylon snap hooks.
  • PVC ground sleeve.
  • 2″ cast aluminum truck with nylon pulley.
  • Flash collar is included

20′– 5 Pole pieces
with 3×5′ American Flag: Was $159.95 NOW $139.95

The set includes:

  • 3×5′  100 percent nylon American Flag
  • 16 gauge x 2 1/2″ O.D. aluminum pole with satin anodized finish.
  • 3″ gold anodized aluminum ball
  • 6″ die cast aluminum cleat.
  • Super strong halyard rope.
  • 3/8″ nylon snap hooks.
  • PVC ground sleeve.
  • 2 1/2″ cast aluminum truck with nylon pulley.
  • Flash collar is included

25′– 5 Pole pieces
with 3×5′ American Flag: Was $299.95 Now $274.95

Flag Works has them in stock. They are GREAT Christmas Gifts. You still have time to order!!! Orders will need to be in by 12/16 to be there by Christmas!!!!!! Visit our website or come into our retail store.afp!!

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Hotel Flags

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To all the Hotels, Inns and Suites, we would like to be your supplier for Hotel flags ,American flags and State flags. We have many styles and various sizes in stock. The flags of major family’s of hotel company’s such as MarriottHyatt, Intercontinental (Holiday Inn), Choice and Hilton to name a few, are in stock or are ready to be made.  Most flags come in sizes 3×5′, 4×6′ and 5×8′ but some hotels want them up to 10’x15′. We can also applique or dye your hotel logo or any promotion onto nylon making any size flag you desire.  To help you see things our way we would like to present you with a special price. Visit Flag-Works over America today!  Special! Order all three, a hotel flag, an American flag and a state flag and receive 10% off those flags.