On 12/27/11, M Wilson <astro_outwest@yahoo.com> wrote:
What is "Tom Cave's breakfast-cereal box"?
Some years ago, before Astro-mart, before eBay, before the internet actually, there was this little classified shopper magazine called "The Starry Messenger", devoted to astro gear. I bought some now long-forgotten item from Tom Cave (founder and owner of Cave Optical Company) and he sent it to me in a cereal box. I still have the box, with his return-address label on it, and "FRAS" hand-printed after his name. Tom passed away some years ago, but is still remembered by old-timers. In addition to telescope manufacturing, he was a keen planetary observer and mover and shaker in the amateur community in the Los Angeles area for decades. I believe many other SLASers met him and spoke with him over the years.