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Why I Stick With Physical Media
Pepe Le Pew — that’s why! Having heard that maladjusted moralists with way too much time on their hands have targeted the beloved cartoon character and are trying to ban him from future appearances as well as streaming platforms, I … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, News, Stuff Joe Likes, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged Chuck Jones, disk, DVD, freaks, Moral Majority, Neo-Puritans, Pepe Le Pew
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WFIL 56
Before Philadelphia’s American Broadcast Company affiliate was WPVI it was WFIL, and it had a sister radio station on the AM dial that played a heavy rotation of top forty hits and a whole lot of commercials.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Stax o' Wax
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Read this students, QUIETLY!
My Weekly Reader from the Spring of 1972. I found this in a crumbling folder of ancient homework and handouts from grade school circa 1972. Teachers would hand these out and make the students read them QUIETLY so they could cadge … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1972, bicycle, My Weekly Reader, school
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Syd Kushner W I D E S H O E S
Advertisement for a Philadelphia shoe store from a November 23, 1971 edition of the Courier Post, a Southern New Jersey newspaper.
Things to do about four decades ago…
These ads were on the back of an article in what was probably The Courier Post that I thought was very important at the time. This was before the home video market took off and not everybody had cable television … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1941, Animal House, drive-in, Linda Manz, movies, New Jersey, Tacony Palmyra, The Wanderers
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It seemed like a good idea at the time…
Behold…the FUTURE! …or at least it was about 20 years ago.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Computers, Curious Clutter, Illustration
Tagged CD, CD-R, comic, disk, Joe Williams, mini disk, promo, promotional
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Only Two Bits at Broad & Lombard
I found another pay phone in Philadelphia, and a call on this one will only set you back 25¢! Of course, the disinfectant used to kill whatever transferred from the receiver to your ear may cost considerably more. This coin … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Philadelphia
Tagged 25¢, Broad Street, disease, pay phone, Philadelphia, phone
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BEYOND the Spinning Rack of Comics
I guess the thing I miss most about comics is the newsstands and druggists that once carried the 4-colored treasures I eagerly plucked from spinning racks or wooden shelves. I would spend what was probably an inordinate amount of time … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, Trash or Treasure, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1956, Anthony Perkins, black and white, buxom, cheap, cheesecake, detective, Diane Webber, girlie, James Dean, pasties, Psycho, scandal, sex on the campus, SHOW, strippers, tawdry, trash, vintage, vintage ads
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Like Spotting Bigfoot
Inexplicably, a phonebooth stands at the corner of 15th and Snyder in South Philadelphia. I haven’t seen one in years and suddenly coming upon one was surprising if not startling. Sadly, the receiver was vandalized so no, it was not … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, Looking South, South Philly Safari
Tagged Looking South, Philadelphia, phone, phonebooth, South Philly, telephone
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Blister Pack of Mayhem
Tina made this find in a junk store in Philadelphia’s Italian Market. It cost all of 50¢.
KOH-I-NOOR CZECH REPUBLIC 48
Having worked in art supply stores for an inordinate amount of time in the 20th Century, I’ve gathered a lot of rare, old or obscure art making tools just as a whale gathers barnacles. This fat lead holder is one … Continue reading
Arrowheads
This collection of arrowheads spent several decades nestled in a drawer in my parents’ spare bedroom. I have very little information on them except that they belonged to my grandmother’s second husband who had visited the Southwest. I’ve poked around … Continue reading
Posted in Collecting, Curious Clutter, News
Tagged Alibates Flint, arrowheads, Mescalero Apache, Obsidian volcanic glass, Southwest, Texas
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Ask Your Father
Ma, it says right here that they’ll send ya ‘ONE PREGNANT MALE who will give birth to as many as 25 babies!’ How can that be, Ma? How can that be?
Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1977, comic, comic book, comics, Earth 2, JSA, One Pregnant Male, Power Girl, seahorse, stripped comic, Superman, USA, vintage, Wally Wood
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