I love vintage unused coloring books. This is a Gene Autry ” Cowboy Adventures To Color” coloring book published in 1941. The ...
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Hoover Dam Ashtray
Hoover Dam (also known as Boulder Dam) was constructed between 1931 and 1936, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Frankli...
Flower Children Turned Cannibal
This is me with two friends on the front page of our local newspaper (Inglewood, CA) in the summer of 1968. We are eating rose petals in ...
Sanitary Underwear Box
All I have is the box. That is, the box is empty. The side of the box still shows the $.15 price tag. A friend gave this to me for my 50th b...
Vintage Firestone Tire Ashtray
This is a very old ashtray dated 1935. The glass ashtray sits in a miniature Firestone rubber tire. The embossed writing commemorates the Ca...
Minnie Pearl fan
How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E! This is a Minnie Pearl cardboard fan with a stick handle. For those of you you don’t know who she was, Minnie Pe...
Gas Station Bathroom
Edit In the past, I have shared photos of my tiki bathroom. Well, as you can see, this is my gas station bathroom! It’s a small guest...
Junior Nurse Thermos
This thermos was part of a vinyl lunchbox set called “Junior Nurse,” made in 1963 by King-Seeley Thermos Co. Gotta love the wond...
Window To The Stars
This is an art piece of my own making. I wanted to create something interesting above our bedroom entry, something magical and over-the-top...
David Bowie Throw Pillows
Ground control to Major Tom. What’s a house without a couple of David Bowie throw pillows laying about? I had these pillows made spe...
Toys!
This is my toy collection, all kinds of toys from the 1940’s thru the present. I keep most of them in this vintage restaurant pastry d...
Miniature Diorama Inside An Altoids Mint Box
This is a little Christmas piece created by an artist friend, Cindy Lind. It is a decorated Altoids mint box featuring a picture of Cindy an...
1960 Christmas Photo
This is a photo of my brother and myself sitting on Santa’s lap in 1960. I’m the older one (practicing my movie star smile) and ...
The Sleeping Juggler
I am the proud owner of this painting titled ‘The Sleeping Juggler.’ It hangs in my green kitchen above a red pantry door. It wa...
Five And Dime Nativity Set
I bought this nativity set from Woolworth’s five and dime store back in the early 1960’s when I was ten years old, and as I was ...
Fiesta Dinnerware
I love Fiesta china, and as you can see by these photos, I collect it all, old and new, vintage and contemporary. There is just something th...
Train Track Andirons
These rustic and old (about 60 years old) fireplace andirons were a housewarming gift from family members, family ranchers who live in North...
1950’s Pilsner Glasses
I think this is the most beautiful set of pilsner glasses I’ve ever seen. The 8 piece set originally belonged to my partner’s au...
Motion Lamps
I have always loved motion lamps beginning with the lamps made in the 1950’s by Econolite and L. A. Goodman, lamps featuring waterfall...
1950’s Pyrex Refrigerator Bowls
This is a 4 piece set of vintage Pyrex refrigerator bowls, just the right sizes for dinner leftovers, two small bowls, one medium bowl and o...
My High School Senior Photo 1971
Thought I share my senior pic too. I grew up near the beach in Southern California and we would put lemon juice in our hair to get blonde hi...
Air Vent Birdcage
This is another bit of my own kitsch….Not sure if the full effect comes across in the photos, but I’ll try to explain….I h...
Cactus Pad Spoon Rest
This is a ceramic spoon rest fashioned to look like a prickly pear cactus pad. It is hand-painted and signed by the artist on back. btw, if ...
Desert Garden
I realize that one usually finds gnomes and fairies in flower gardens, but we have them here too in Tucson rock gardens. As you can see, my ...