I got this old bowling medallion from Listia.com for almost free. It is inscribed on the front, (above their club’s “coat of arms”) 25th Anniversary, the coat of arms says 1942, so either the medallion was made in 1967… …Or the club was established in 1917, just in time for that flu pandemic. Talk about […]
Category: Flotsam
Only your nose knows
My dad’s Uncle Hank bought this Fart Finder from some sort of gift shop in Renton, Wa. on January 23rd, 1970. I know this because he kept the receipt. He was a school bus driver at some point, I wonder if he planned to write off the $1.75 as a business expense?
I bring you… Music! Or… a house fire!
I would like to see if this old Airline brand portable tube radio from Monkey Wards still works, it uses a D battery but there is a lot of corrosion there, I can fix that. (The D cell is to heat up the tubes, I think). But it also uses a 67.5 volt battery the […]
Pac Man Fever? Try lockdown madness.
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 that sort of worked and made weird noises? It would accept this ragged token, then […]
I give up on this
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 etc. but not attached to any of them. They are mostly before my time. This […]
Man in blue doing a crackerjack job
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 he did to get traffic duty. He has been doing it so long, that he […]
They should at least find you handy
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 patch (Or get my “old lady” to do it)- I will look like a deranged […]
Road Blade
I did my good deed today, picked up this sharp object that was in the road. I think it might be some kind of brake part? but it is small, very thin and very sharp. But it could have gotten flipped up by someone’s front tire to be in position to slash the back tire. […]
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; it is in something like an old oil can is made. I guess the Navy must have bought too many. I’m really surprised […]
Too many monkeys!
If you all think my matchbook covers collecting is a stupid hobby, There is a lady on Facebook is downsizing her Sock Monkey collection. If she is culling Mr. Coconuts AND the Family School Bus Set, that’s 10 monkeys- so how many did not get downsized? 30? 50? 200? The seller notes “These were strictly […]