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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Before my dad had cable, he had a standard roof antenna, or on the other TV, just “rabbit ears”. The roof antenna usually would do OK just pointed toward Seattle’s Queen Anne hill, from our outpost in what is now…
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We have been taking stock of this whole coronavirus thing. Our kids are out of school, I can’t imagine if they had been home schooled. Teresa pointed out that school teachers probably have more T cells after dealing with roomfuls…
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One would think someone that is in the habit of climbing into chimneys on cold winter nights, would not distribute matches. Maybe he should stick to peppermint sticks emblazoned with his bearded mug?
Alas, the castle housing this museum was torn down in 1964, in the interest of urban renewal. I don’t know what became of the dude in the suit of armor shown here. Mr. Harding had inherited a fortune and used…
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I was out walking the dog in the relatively unpopulated area behind the Marysville Mall, and encountered this survey marker in the cement next to the opera house. I thought it was weird, a coast guard survey? and this far…
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The Buccaneer Inn in Sarasota featured a pirate mascot on the advertising, complete with a wooden leg, eyepatch, grog, parrot. What were you expecting? I would have liked to go in there and ask, “How much for corn on the…
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My sister was complaining that she spent the whole morning looking for this particular “army man”. Her grandson claims that this one is the “chief”. She finally found him. He doesn’t look like any NCO to me. Years ago I…
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These folks are fishing for salmon at the mouth of the Rogue River in Oregon. What a perfect activity for times like these. Those fishing lines require social distancing, and later fish-breath will keep people apart.
I got this WWII electronic relay in a can in a box of auction stuff, I think. It was never opened, so I don’t have any idea of what it looks like; it is in something like an old oil…
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This matchbook must be from the 20’s or 30’s, the heyday of the New Jersey Athletic Club; after that it was a hotel, the club went kaput because of changing demographics. I wonder if some of their 3000 plus members…
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