The Buccaneer Inn in Sarasota featured a pirate mascot on the advertising, complete with a wooden leg, eyepatch, grog, parrot. What were you...
Month: July 2020
The Army needs men to work in movies
My sister was complaining that she spent the whole morning looking for this particular "army man". Her grandson claims that this one is the...
A better 2020 activity
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...
Isn’t anybody curious?
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;...
The pool is nice, but those stairs.
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...
Nobody fixes anything anymore.
Another item from my dad's old 1958 Jensen-Byrd catalog, supplier to hardware retailers all over the west. This is a set of the locking...
Time to tighten the belt
This postcard suggests that President Reagan and Nancy simply shaved their heads, to save money on tonsorial services. It seems like a small...
Drawing = Sitting down and being quiet
This is a project from my son in 2nd or 3rd grade I guess. Apparently the idea was to draw an anti-pollution poster. Because pollution is...
Stacks of wax
Teresa still has her KJR cash card! We go way back listening to Seattle radio. When I got my first radio, there were THREE competing "Top 40"...
McLovin doesn’t even get carded anymore.
To my dismay, store clerks don't even ask for my ID anymore. I have to speed and get carded by a cop instead. It's not the same. This Replica...