Category Archives: Curious Clutter

Don’t Mess With Success

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Joe

Pictured above is an enamel lapel pin of The Punisher’s logo. I actually forgot I had this and came across it while looking for something else. It’s always the way.

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Ingber Clutch

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Tina Garceau

I received this clutch when an elderly neighbor passed away. It was manufactured by The Ingber Company in Philadelphia, PA. The company was established by brothers David and Issac Ingber in 1903, and survived until 1966.

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A Weighty Request

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Joe

When you have about an inch of column space and are competing for eyeballs with Sea Monkeys, switchblade pocket combs and get-rich schemes, subtlety is a luxury advertisers in comic books could not afford.

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Why I Stick With Physical Media

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Joe

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 →

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SEND MY SELECTIONS ON…

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Joe
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WFIL 56

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Joe

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.

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Read this students, QUIETLY!

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Joe

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 →

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