The Conger Street Clock Museum 730 Conger Street, Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-344-6359

The Conger Street Clock Museum is a walk back in time as you look at one of the 20 window exhibits featuring memories of the past. Hand made cars, tractors, trains and clocks are just a few of the things you will see. Visit the communications room, see the camera collection and the minature pedal car collection. They come by the bus load to visit The Conger Street Clock Museum Conger Street Time Conger Street Tower Clock The clock has two sets of bells. A single bell on the right side and double bells on the left. The right side is for counting the quarter hour and each fifteen minutes it rings one more time. So at fifteen minutes after the hour it strikes one time. On the half hour it rings twice, at fifteen minutes before the hour it rings three times, and on the hour it rings four times. It will then count the hour with the bells on the left side. The Mechanism The old clock was made about 1750 and is a three train mechanism. That means that it is actualy three different mechanisms linked together to work as one unit. One train counts the quarters, one train counts the hour, and the other train tells the time. The pendulum is thirteen feet long and weighs sixty two pounds. The pendulum takes three and three quarter seconds to complete one cycle. Bells, Ropes, and Hammers The bells on the left side are eight feet long, and the bell on the right is 7 feet long. The hammers are thirteen inches long and are made of oak. There are thirty six feet of rope on each of the pullies and the clock needs to be wound every twenty four hours. The Clock Tower The clock tower is eighteen feet tall so it continues eight feet above the ceiling. The pendulum go seven feet above the ceiling. Old Time Pieces In 1961 J.D. Olson received an old clock from a neighbor as payment for repairing the neighbors other clock. The old clock was worth more than the repair should have cost, so the condition was that Olson would consider the clock a gift and never get rid of it. He didn't! That clock is one of the hundreds of old, antique, or rare clocks on display in the Conger Street Clock Museum. IMPORTANT DATES and the history of clocks At the bottom of the next page The Clock Lobby In the lobby there are many old master clocks from as early as 1898. These master clocks were used to signal other clocks through out a building and would also control bells to signal the start of work, lunch break, or time to go home. Old Mantel Clocks You will also see old mantel clocks from as far back as the seventeen hundreds. All of the clocks in the museum are in working condition and maintained by the service staff of museum. Wells Fargo Collection Clocks are the primary display of the clock museum but it is a museum of time and not just clocks. The Wells Fargo display has a collection of night watchman clocks, old check writers, bank vault timers and other such items. Pigeon Timers These pigeon timers date back to the 1800s. A numbered band was placed on the leg of a Homing Pigeon. When the pigeon returned to its name, the band was removed and the time was recorded on the piegon timer. The band was then placed in the timer and that compartment was closed and locked and only the judges could unlock the timer. This would show how long it took for each racing piegon to travel a given distance. COMPLETE CLOCK DICTIONARY at the bottom of the next page Yesteryear Take a walk back in time as you see the items displayed in the museum. More Than Just Clocks Case 1/6th Scale Tractor In the tractor display you will see a functional Case steam tractor that is fourty three inches long and eighteen inches high. The drive wheels are more than twelve inches in diameter and the flywheel is eight inches in diameter. Axel and Irene from Junction City take a moment to enjoy the Case tractor that took more than five years to build. There is also a functional minature hit or miss gasoline engine in this display. The West Wing The big old clock on the left is from a bank. The clock was made about 1898 and would control large bells located outside of the bank. It now controls the red bells on its right side and to the left of the master school clock on the other side of the wall. The master school clock was made in 1901 and was used to ring bells in class rooms to signal time for recesses, lunch time, and time to go home. The Ford Room The featured attraction of the Ford Room is this quarter scale 1912 Model T Ford Torpedo. Everything on this solid brass Model T works. It took seventeen years to build this car working five, six and even seven days a week. Everything works, and everything is perfect. Everything was built by hand and if a part was not "PERFECT", it was discarded and another one made. Mr. Nielsen who was born in 1912, poses by the 1912 Model T Ford. This will give you an idea of the cars size. This solid brass Model T Ford is 35 inches long and 18 inches high. The wheels are 8 inches in diameter. There is also a working quarter scale tire pump and a jack. The engine is a four cylinder gasoling engine with an updraft carburator. The bore is 7/8 inches and the stroke is 1 inch. The engine actually runs. And when you crank the engine with the hand crank, the old car rocks just as a full size would do. The headlights work off of the carbide generator that is mounted on the left side running board. There are 100 rods in the radiotor just as in the full size car. The parking lights and tail light work off of kerosine. The hand brake releases the authentic working transmission. The door latches, viberator coils, spark advance and throtle are all just as in the full size car. Just smaller! The seat is genuine leather, tucked and pleated, again just an in the original. The viberator box on the dash is mitered, dovetailed and contains four individual viberator coils. The rear end (differential) was build from Ford blueprints and is true to scale. EVERYTHING WORKS! The springs are made from individual springs and flex just as on a full size car. Here the Ford is seen with out its head as the engine is being built. More pictures of this Model T, and other items in the Museum Of Time, can be seen on the next page. NEXT PAGE         More Pictures of         NEXT PAGE The Conger Street Clock Museum on the next page The Conger Street Clock Tower This clock tower mechanism was built circa 1750 and the pendulum is 13 feet long. It takes almost 4 seconds for the pendulum to complete one cycle. Click on the 1949 Firetruck to visit the Conger Street Clock Museum Creative Clock at The Conger Street Clock Museum of Eugene, Oregon was the Featured story of the July/August 1990 Watch & Clock Review Vol. 57, No. 7 Back To Top The Conger Street Clock Museum 730 Conger Street Eugene, Oregon 97402 STORE HOURS Monday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Phone 541-344-6359     Fax 541-338-0869     Creative Clock,   PO Box 2100,   Eugene, Oregon   97402