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May the Fourth, and All That
Well, here we are on "May the 4th Be With You Day" and I've just about blown through all of my Star Wars content.All but a few that is. Granted, they're not very exciting, but they did make me a...
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You'll Never Get Rich (You Son of a Smif) You're in the Army Now
 It's been a while since I've had a vintage postcard find. Here are a few from a recent find.These WWII-era postcards feature the popular (at the time) comic strip character Snuffy Smith, or "Smif" as...
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Skyline Chili
 I found these plates at an estate sale this past weekend.I'd never heard of Skyline Chili and after doing some research, found it was a chain in Cincinatti, Ohio.Established in 1949 (as stated on the...
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Mixed Drink Mix
I found these "Instant" cocktail mixes in the basement bar of a recent estate sale. I'm not an alcohol drinker, but I have to imagine these are pretty bad. The fact that the these remained after all...
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The Egg and Eyes
I'll be honest. This almost made a "Stuff I can Live Without" blog. But something about it called to me. The colors, the late 60's mod design, the lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.Turns...
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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (and Ads)
It's not quite officially summer yet, but we've already hit 100 here in St. Louis, so we might as well call it. And summertime always brings my childhood to mind which involved not going to school...
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Between the Covers - The Black Hole Coloring Book
First off, let me apologize for letting the grass grow so high on this blog. It's been 2 months since my last post. Rest assured, garage and estate saling have continued throughout this time and many...
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The Black Hole..That is This Blog
I know, it's been almost a month since my last post. It feels like this summer has been sucked into a black hole. Hey! Look what I have for you. As promised to Dex, the complete "The Black Hole"...
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Percolating Finds
 Okay, Summer is over and the Countdown to Halloween begins next week. I need to clear out some cobwebs and when I say "cobwebs" I mean coffee pots.For some reason, this past year produced a bumper...
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Halloween 2022 - It's My Bag, Baby, But I'm Running Out of Them
Yes, it's Halloween season once again and that means it's time for those things I've found in the past year that lean toward Halloween or the weird; it's time for "Garage Sale Finds" to transform into...
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Bowled Over
I've found you can't let the feel of a sale throw you off and lower your guard. I was in a newer home a couple months ago and wasn't finding anything vintage. I'd already swept through the basement...
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Who Are You? (Who who, who who?)
 Who? I'm a Eureka owl die cut, that's Whooooo!This diecut dates from 1963. The artwork on Eureka die cuts varies from the realistic, as above, to the whimsical.An example of the whimsical is this most...
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Click Click
I recognized the graphics on this small tin metal basket when I came across it in the basement of an estate sale this summer. I already had the matching can where I keep my smaller Halloween cake...
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The Ghost Book
There's a long tradition of posting complete strangers' childhood drawings on this blog. And it seems like they are almost always Halloween themed. I think it's because Halloween seems to bring out...
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Ten Thousand and One Grimaces
No, not that purple monstrosity that loves McDonald's shakes. These:The above isn't mine. I only found this lone Grimace:I remember seeing these in dime stores and tourist shops when I was a kid.The...
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I Come to Praise Cesar
The Cesar mask company of France was founded in 1842. I sure wish I could tell you more about them, but that's pretty much all that's on their "About" site.Cesar is known for their vinyl masks (as...
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Get Your Hands on These
Ben Cooper was the "goto" for Halloween costumes from the 1930's through the 1980's. Most people remember them for their cartoon and comic character costumes made of vinyl and sharp plastic masks held...
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Dennison Die Cuts
The Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham, Massachusetts was established in 1844 as a maker of paper jewelry boxes. When Halloween became popular just after the turn of the 20th century, they...
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That Voodoo You Do
While this game was incomplete, I decided to buy it for the box art alone. It makes for a good Halloween display piece. Set up for this game involves some rubber bands and a triggering mechanism....
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Wanda Witch Flashlight
I found this "Wanda" witch flashlight at a garage sale last October along with quite a few other vintage 1980's Halloween items. The seller assured us she'd be selling vintage Christmas items the...
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