The prizes have evolved over the decades. These are from the late 50s or 60s I think. I remember them to be 10 cents a box. I’ve only ...
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Miss America Presents A Collectors Album
Ladies and Gerntlmen……let me introduce Miss Nancy Anne Fleming (Miss America 1961). I about fell over when I found this on a rec...
“Daddy” Sea Shell /with Boat Ashtray
Another piece from my Grandmothers curio cabinet. My Mother made this for her Father back in the 40’s....
Al Caiola’s Magic Guitars “Music For Space Squirrels” LP
Some of my favorite things…..cats and space suits. Has anyone ever heard this? On the ATCO Record Label....
Aging Slowly Book (The Prevention Total Health System) wellness book
This is another book I rescued from one of the “Dump Stores” here on Cape Cod. Book was printed in 1983, the year I graduated hi...
Fun Mechanic Patches
Years ago, I was at a podunk backwoods flea market that was so dark inside you practically had to wear a miner’s lamp on your head to ...
50’s monkey planter with a twist
Just love this little guy. Nice way to start out the morning and end the day....
Mah Jongg – THE game of the 50’s
Not only is the game Mah Jongg kitsch, but so is the ritual of my Mom and her friends meeting each week along with thousands of others women...
famzilla
The wedding could ruin any good love affair. Relatives never become distant then.. the piece is mounted on some sort of door insert, there i...
Slap Bracelets
When I was a youngster, the one fad that miserable underlings and “popular” folks alike really could not be without was the Slap...
Bird Planter
I purchased this for $5.00 at Impact Thrift Shop in Norristown, PA. It’s almost 8 inches long and and 6 inches high....
In honor of Fess Parker aka Davy Crockett
This is the real deal. It belongs to a friend who asked me to share it with the world. Even as a little girl of about 8, I remember having a...
“The Florida Room”
My grandparents, being proper New York Jews, started wintering in Florida in the early 1970s. By 1973, they decided to set down some roots a...
Casey’s Dug Out Saloon
I went here for lunch on my last trip home. Check out the paintings/artwork on the walls! Gold diggers? And the preacher said to his wife...
cat figurines
My daugher painted these at Color me Mine. No they are not old but they way she painted the one on left with the spots totally gives it the ...
Baby Beatniks from 1961
I found this article on line. Figured I would post it since there is a section for the Beatnik stuff here....
Alligator planter gets me organized
More fun to use it as a note organizer than a planter. Inside his mouth is a Florida souvenir sticker from years ago. Love the eyes & te...
“The Fonz” lives on…
The 70’s was an amazing time to flash back to the sterotype teens growing up in the 50’s . The kids were respectful, innocent an...
Lil Wampum (a nut from florida) Coconut Bank
This was one of those 50 cent purchases. I love the fact that it’s hard to get into and a real chore (for some of us) in having to ope...
Bar Hounds
This 1950 print by Constance Depler Coleman (who, by the way, is still alive and churning out art) is entitled, “Bar Hounds” and...
10th Grade High School Picture 1981
I know it’s a small pic but the detail are visible. My Mother had a fit that she paid for these class pictures as I have a hickey on m...













