PAST Home Page

PAST

Preserving Arts and Skills of the Trades

Welcome to the PAST Web site!

This is the home page for the PAST (Preserving Arts and Skills of the Trades) organization.

The purpose of PAST is to encourage the study and better understanding of the early American industries (at home, shop, farm, and sea); also to discover, identify, classify, preserve, and exhibit obsolete tools, implements, and mechanical devices for educational purposes and to share this knowledge with others. PAST was organized in June of 1968 in Los Angeles, CA. PAST is the successor to the Early American Industries Association-WEST which was under the abbreviation EAIA-WEST. In July of 1987, the name of the organization was changed to PAST. PAST is a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational organization.

Any person or organization may become a PAST member upon completion of a membership application and payment of dues. Spouses, significant others, or partners are automatically covered without any additional dues required. If a spouse, significant other, or partner wishes to have his/her own membership, the payment of separate dues shall be necessary. There may be specific meeting fees, over and above dues. Members are entitled to attend all meetings, receive PAST publications, and vote for elected officers and directors. The primary meetings of PAST members occur in the Winter and Summer. Regional meetings are held in the Spring and the Fall.

Become a part of the PAST! Click here for membership information.

The frame at left will help you navigate through the site. As with most sites, it is in an ongoing process of improvement, and we need the help of PAST members with this task. The current set of links are just a sample. We need to add pointers to other on-line resources that you may have found that you would like to share with others.

What am I looking for to add to the web site?

Members’ home pages about their collections or old tools woodworking projects
On-line copies of catalogs of old tools
Type studies of classes of tools
Company history of tool manufacturers
On-line copies of articles by PAST members
Anything you think would be of value to your fellow PAST members

If you have found a web site that falls into one of these categories, please send me email and I will try to add it to the PAST site. Also, feel free to let me know about any corrections or broken links you may find. Just as this is your club, this is your web site. Let’s make it one of the best places on the web to look for old tools information.

Thanks for visiting!

Ken Greenberg, webmaster
toolroom@pasttools.org

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This page was last updated on 03/26/09.