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Toothpaste Ducky

Chalkware duck that was scored for super-cheap at a flea market. It looks like paint chips, but the white is actually on top of the yellow.....

Jack Paar

I always enjoyed watching Jack Paar on TV, reading his books and decided to write him a letter. One subject in the letter was about a person...

More Tempest Storm

I had already posted an autographed picture of Tempest Storm and she sent me another one with a lot of smaller pictures of her some in regu...

John Glenn

It’s hard to believe that John Glenn’s orbit of the moon was 50 years ago, but it was on February 20, 1962 that he did this. I h...

Beatles Banjo

Enjoy my 1964 Beatles Banjo. Because when you think of the Fab Four, “Banjo” immediately springs to mind. Right? GroovyShelly...

Love/Hate New York

This is a small paper back book made by a cartoonist, Bernie Karlin showing the good side and bad side of New York City. For example, one s...

John Madden and his Bus

Former Coach of the Oakland Raiders and now a commentarian on the NFL never flies but instead has a deluxe fitted bus to take him to games. ...

Norman Mailer

I got this book at a local thrift shop and noticed it had been autographed by the author.  I have read every book by Mailer. This book look...

Julie Andrews

My father was blind and paralyzed during World War Two and greatly enjoyed listening to the progress of the war. My brother dropped paratroo...

Elizabeth Taylor

This picture  was sent to me with an accompanying letter from her secretary about two years before she died. We had the same birthday and s...

Arnold Schwartzenegger

I wrote a letter to the then Governor of California about a time when I had met his nemesis  from Conan the Barbarian, former Oakland Raide...

Tempest Storm

When I came back from the Korean War, I was given a pass. I was still in uniform in Emeryville (near Oakland) when I noticed the El Rey Buel...

Janet Leigh

In 1947, I went to see a movie “Romance of Rosy Ridge” with Janet Leigh and Van Johnson. Of course, I fell in love with Janet an...