Collector of Advertising of the mid 20th Century.
It’s the personal blog of a somewhat bored retired airplane factory drone. Oddly, my name anagrams to “Never Jet Hot”. Go figure! I have the gamut of old fart hobbies, collecting old matchbook covers, and other midcentury odds and ends;…
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I found this in my matchbook collection, I was laughing but my wife told me to grow up. Not sure why they chose this name, it would probably work for a pick-up joint or let’s face it, a gay bar….
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I was digging up some rockery and found this decrepit old video game token. Wouldn’t it be creepy if there was an abandoned arcade in one of those abandoned malls that youtube explorers like to trespass in, except one machine…
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On September 19, 1995, King County voters defeated a ballot measure that would have funded the construction of a new baseball-only stadium for the Seattle Mariners. Of course, the government knows better, so soon the Washington State Legislature approved a separate funding…
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I have lost interest in my coin and token collection, Except for the silver dollar with the president Nixon case, that my dad gave me. I have a lot of wooden nickels, plastic tokens, etc. old bus tokens, casino chips…
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I acquired a pack of these “Desert Storm Trading Cards” – I don’t know if there are “rare” and “common” cards (“I’ll trade these two SCUD missiles for your Iceland card!”) (Yes, there is an Iceland card. Maybe they supplied…
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It must have been a golden time for independent Television and Radio stores like Jack Bartlett’s. Remote Control of your television, being able to turn the channel without getting up when no kids were in the room, it was almost…
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Back in the day, specifically 1950 to 1988, the Silver Slipper Casino sat next to the Frontier, spinning a giant slipper on the roof. In 1964, they were busted for cheating, shaving dice and whatnot. Then in 1968, Howard Hughes…
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The reason I think this guy came out of a box of Crackerjacks, is I think I got one in like 1966 or so. He is about 1 7/8″ tall, and somewhat thin by “army guy” standards. I wonder what…
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I got a great deal on the complete Red Green Show DVD box set, and it came with this nice patch! But what do I do with it? I have a nice leather jacket, but if I sew on this…
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When I was a kid, I liked to ignore the kickstand, I would get off my bike coming up the driveway, and let it wobble off onto the lawn. My dad saw me do this one time and quietly informed…
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