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Category Archives: Curious Clutter
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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Don’t Feed Them After Midnight
It’s always the way: I am tearing the place apart looking for something which I never find but I uncover something which I had completely forgotten about. In this case I found a couple 0f pages of stickers promoting Joe … Continue reading
Almost All of Them Flops
This is a nicely printed flyer that was handed out at a comic book convention in the very early 1980s. On the opposite side of what’s pictured above was a list of horror and science fiction classics released by Universal … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1980s, horror, movies, science fiction, USA, vintage
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Dymo-Mite Tapewriter
Sometimes the old way of doing things is the best way.
Digital Clutter
This is a followup to my earlier post about the art school formerly known as The Philadelphia College of Art. Thanks to the Internet Archive which is probably the greatest site on the internet a number of odd, wonderful and … Continue reading
