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Category Archives: Trash or Treasure
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
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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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Shoes on 11th Street
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Posted in Philadelphia, Photography, Trash or Treasure
Tagged fashion, shoes, size 7 1/2, trash day, vintage
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Waterlogged Olympians and Huey Lewis Shoes at 13th and Kimball
Spotted on the corner of 13th Street and Kimball in South Philadelphia – a hardback semi-autobiography of Michael Phelps and a two-tone shoe that was probably the height of fashion in the 1980s.
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Posted in Trash or Treasure
Tagged Broad Street, dump, Last Supper, mirror, New Wave, oddball, olympics, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, shoes, South Philadelphia, swimmer, trash, trash or treasure, treasure, tumbleweave, two tone
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Bond, James Bond
I was shopping in my neighborhood on Saturday morning when I came upon a man selling second hand items at a table. Baseball cards in foil packets, DVDs, cookie tins – nothing I was particularly interested in. However, at … Continue reading
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Posted in Blast from the Past, Trash or Treasure
Tagged 007, 1960s, 1966, Connecticut, espionage, Gentleman Spy, Gilbert Toys, Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, James Bond hand puppet, Made In America, Scottish, Sean Connery, spy, toy, vintage
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At Circle Thrift
Is it an ashtray? A very heavy mask with no eye holes? An object d’art? Trash or treasure?
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Posted in Trash or Treasure
Tagged ceramic, Circle Thrift, face, ghost, sculpture, trash, treasure
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Three Guys Walk Into A Bar…
and The Jewish fellow says to the Italian, “The Irish kid’s buyin’! His Old Man’s loaded!“ Spotted at a sidewalk sale in South Philadelphia.
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Posted in Trash or Treasure
Tagged 1960s, BAR, Catholicism, funny, humor, Jesus, JFK, Kennedy, Philadelphia, President, sidewalk sale, The Pope
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I find your lack of faith…disturbing.
Walking to work on trash days I’m noticing a certain disenchantment with my favorite of all holidays before the day has even arrived!
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Posted in Halloween, Trash or Treasure
Tagged Alien, Halloween, mask, monster, rubbish, Star Wars, trash
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