Bill - You are correct. Hastings was the "epicenter" of the Florida potato industry. Hastings was served by the FEC, but the ACL, SAL, and SOU all had seasonal salesmen assigned in Hastings to try and

Jack - Your eyes are better than mine (maybe I should stop ignoring the emails from my eye doctor reminding me it's time for new glasses) :)

The top half of it looks like it says "How to Serve Winter Keeping Potatoes". So I'm guessing the lower half is recipe recommendations

Never seen that before. Looks like they used the locking mechanism from a reefer. Would be intereting to find out more about it.