Collecting the Open Road: Verndale Man Preserves History Through 2,500 License Plates

Collecting the open road: Verndale man preserves history through 2,500 license plates

VERNDALE — To Mike Lovelace, every license plate has a story — of where it’s been, who once owned it and the era it represents — and inside his growing collection, those stories line the walls by the hundreds. “You know, every plate has a story — it belonged to someone, it was on a vehicle, it was going somewhere,” said Lovelace as he walked through his “man cave” where he displays his growing license plate collection. All in all, Lovelace has r…

Preserving the past, one plate at a time

VERNDALE — To Mike Lovelace, every license plate has a story — of where it’s been, who once owned it and the era it represents — and inside his growing collection, those stories line the walls by the hundreds. “You know, every plate has a story — it belonged to someone, it was on a vehicle, it was going somewhere,” said Lovelace as he walked through his “man cave” where he displays his growing license plate collection. All in all, Lovelace has r…