<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bd42ba90-569c-4163-911b-d4d67cd661c0/719DFD49-2374-4D4C-ADC1-3EC196320E76/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html" href="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ohio.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ohio.com/img/92276269-E1CA-4BF1-8E81-84BDB6E78469" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html"><P class="storytext">After generations of nostalgia, months of speculation and a sharp-tongued moment of contention, it all came down to just a minute or two of bidding.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html"><P class="storytext">Going once . . . going twice . . . <I>sold!</I> — to the gentleman in the yellow T-shirt for $5,000.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html"><P class="storytext">The Big Dipper, an icon of Northeast Ohio childhoods since 1925, was the crown jewel of an auction Tuesday intended to clear the defunct Geauga Lake amusement park of its contents.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html"><P class="storytext">It brought a price less than the blue book value of a 1995 Toyota Camry.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/20225944.html"><P class="storytext">The high bidder kept a poker face after being declared the winner. His name is Tom Woosnam; he works for Apex Western Machinery Movers in Akron. But he represents someone else, someone whose name he wasn't at liberty to reveal Tuesday. All he could say is that the Big Dipper will be re-erected — but not where — that it will not operate as a working ride, but that it will be preserved for its historical value.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/719DFD49-2374-4D4C-ADC1-3EC196320E76/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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