I had a bake sale this week. I needed something that wouldn’t take up a huge chunk of time, and as luck would have it – I found another cheat! This recipe for Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes comes from the folks at Better Homes and Gardens, and it’s a keeper!
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Here’s an advertisement for Ivins, Dietz & Magee from the program/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.
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$2.50 for a life-like head of either blond or brunette hair?! There’s no way Sy Sperling could beat this!!!
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Tina and I are working on finishing up Chapter 2 of Monkey & Bird. This was a sketch I did in my sketchbook looking for a comfortable and humorous sleeping position for Mickey the Monkey. It’s a fun sketch, but it won’t fit in the panel I had in mind for it. I needed more of a supine sleeping position. So here is a sketch of a prone chimp catching some Z’s.
Stay tuned for MORE Monkey & Bird!
Interested in a print edition! Monkey & Bird Chapter 1 is available HERE!
This is sort of a follow-up last week’s post about the Boot and Saddle Bar. The Del Borrello family which owns the Boot also owns Bambi Cleaners at Broad and Porter Streets in South Philadelphia. From the information I could track down, Bambi Cleaners opened in 1955. They certainly had a thing for large and wonderful signs!
Great news! Plans are afoot to reopen the fabulous Boot and Saddle. Read about it HERE!
We’re back on the water again this week but this time we have a larger boat and a larger body of water. Being that the photographer John B. Capewell lived in Westville, New Jersey, I think it’s safe to assume that he shot this 5″ x 7″ glass negative on the banks of the Delaware River.
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What is a mug rug? It’s bigger than a coaster, yet smaller than a placemat – I like to think of it as a tiny quilt for my afternoon snack. This measures 6′ x 9″ and can be whipped up in no time!
(Coffee and brownie not included.)
I inherited this pasta machine from a neighbor this week. Judging from the instructional booklet – I believe it dates back to the Truman administration. I always wanted a pasta machine, but a lack of storage space in my kitchen prevented me from purchasing one. So when this little gem dropped in my lap, I suddenly had dreams of hand cut fettuccine and glistening pans of meaty lasagna!
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I haven’t had much luck with this category having not spotted a Truck Mascot in quite some time. Private trash haulers are usually good for this urban phenomena of lashing discarded stuffed animals to the grills of their trucks, but I haven’t seen one in so long I was starting to suspect that there was some new governmental regulation barring the practice and spoiling my fun. I always have my camera on me but no luck.
That is until I spied this fellow lashed to a pickup in a Save-A-Lot parking lot on Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia.
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