December 2019

As the Roaring Twenties came to a startling abrupt ending, Westclox positively continued. I have frequently been asked by Westclox...

December has always been a joyous time for Westcloxers. (Except for 1942, but we’ll save that for another time.) I can’t begin to tell...

Well, I’m rather behind in my Curator’s Corner writing! It has just been a very busy summer around here. Now that schools are back in...

When the Western Clock Company (a.k.a. Westclox) began producing its world-famous timepieces, about the only way to get from the factory...

One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered World War I. In the nearly two years that followed, 147 Westclox employees...

One of the first things most of us do in the morning, and one of the last things before going to bed at night, is check the weather...

Little Known Facts About Westclox As Veteran’s Day draws close, I am inspired to write about Westclox during World War II. Some of you...

This is the first in a series of articles on “Things You Might Not Know About Westclox”. This first article is written in response to a...

Here at the museum, we would never claim to have one of everything Westclox ever made. We're not even close, in spite of the extensive...

One of the most frequently asked questions in the museum is, “Why does everything Westclox say LaSalle if the company was in Peru?”...

It seems we are always in “Sleuth Mode” here at the museum, constantly digging through our archives, hoping to solve some of our own...