Happy Easter!

Look at these little weirdos frolic along the rolling hills of green! No fair! It's still freeeezing here in Michigan. Will spring ever come????

This Week In Finds #5

There were three really great estate sales in my town this past weekend and, despite my battles with a mustachioed hipster weeny boy, I managed to score some decent loot!

A couple more Dream Pets for my recent collection. I was pretty thrilled to find the St. Bernard with his cool hat and barrel collar. The other guy is both a Dream pet knock-off and an apparent Snoopy Knock-off. I don't recall Snoopy ever wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a plaid bow....I also need to find him a nose!

I've been wanting to get some more 45 cases lately, but didn't feel like paying $20 (and sometimes more!) for one on Ebay. Luckily I found a couple of great ones for El Cheapo. The jean Platter Pak is my new fave, the other I'll stick on the 'bay and get myself a little piece o' the action!

A couple jugs for my mini-jug/hillbilly collection.

I found oodles of great mags and comics too. There is tons of cool junk hidin' inside these babies, plenty to share here later!!!

A few neato buttons. "Cavalier Power" is a 70's pin from my old high school in Corunna, MI. The "Patriots" pin has moving eyeballs! I'm not sure if "Pepper Power' is referring to Dr. Pepper or not, but just plain peppers are cool too.

A friend of my mom's hooked me up with these happenin' shades!

A devil dragster by Hot Wheels, a Jaguar D-type by Tootsietoy, a Capn' Crunch Whistle and a Mattel major Matt Mason helmet. I snagged three of these helmets, which fetch between $20-30 on Ebay! I guess kids always lost 'em! 

The whistle has a pretty funny story: This guy John Draper, a Vietnam Vet, used the whistle to hack phone lines in the early 70's and make free long distance calls! The whistle produces a 2600 hertz tone used by the phone companies in them days to open lines for long distance calls to go through. Draper later developed "blue boxes" which could produce many different tones to fool the phone lines.

Some Andy Capp books. I was surprised to find out that this dude has been around since 1917! Damn, I love them Cheddar Fries too....

This 70's custom van model was my coolest find of the weekend, and at $6, my most expensive. Not bad really, seeings how it's still sealed in plastic. Unfortunately, I have no talent or patience for building models, but it will look cool on a shelf!

Some 60's Comics

I picked up a lotta groovy loot this week at a few estate sales, so I have a ton of new stuff to share! Here's a couple of the comics I bought:

Banana Splits #1 from 1969

 The Adventures of Bob Hope #96 from 1966. Seriously, even Bob Hope had a comic? I couldn't pass up these groovy ghoulies!

Lemon Peeler!

For CC...

Schwinn bicycle ad from Boys Life Magazine, July 1968

This Week In Finds #4

I haven't had one of these updates in a while mostly because I really haven't been buying much lately. Now that my tax wealth is spent, I guess i have to be a little more selective, and stay the heck off Ebay! I did pick up some cool stuff at some estate sales recently though. It was the month of Dream Pets!

I don't know what you call these dudes, but they were worth a buck a piece I guess. They did need some HEAVY grooming, hahaha! I need to paint in the eyeballs on the green fella too.

 Here are some Holiday friends. I think the Valentines girl might have been holding a big heart or something. I think she looks uncannily like Carol Channing! My mom found the funny lil leprechaun in a pile of junk on St. Patrick's day!

 I dug this old phone out of a dumpster, still needs some cleaning up, but it looks cool. I really dig the avocado color.

 This pink poodle appears to be a knock-off Dream Pet. She is made of Naugahyde like material, rather than velveteen like the real ones. I also picked up these cool 60's joke books.

 This skunk is a genuine Dream Pet. He needed a little TLC, but is lookin' gooood now!

I'm gonna have tons of new junk to display this Christmas, including a new knee-hugger, this Dream Pet reindeer, and these awesome Christmas 45's from the 50's! My, how the Chipmunks have changed...

BOOK FAIR: How to be Cool

Boy-ar-deeeeeee!

When I was just a wee little tike, my favorite food on earth was Chef Boy-ar-dee Ravioli. Whenever my folks gave me the choice of what I wanted for my birthday dinner, I always chose this stuff (much to their dismay), even into my teen years! Nowadays it pretty much grosses me out though, hahahaaa!

RAMBO COLORING BOOK (1985)

This is one of those cheapo drug store coloring books I had so many of growing up as a kid. Somehow this one survived without being colored in, scribbled in or torn to bits.  99 cents seems a little steep to me for 1985, though. Sheesh!

As apposed to a casual freedom fighter.

 I can see you! Might wanna try a little harder....

 Gee, what could it be?

 "Perilous" missions? Looks like Rambo gets the shit missions to me!

 .....luckily it wasn't too hard

I remember getting one of these at Walgreen's when I was a little dude, probably the crappy binoculars and compass set. Hahahaaa! I do remember staring at this picture for hours and dreaming....

Dumb Tapes

Here's some dumb tapes I bought at Salvation Army today. I will be sharing the audio from them soon!

PINBACKS: Hippy Sippy

I got this at a barn sale a few years ago, and always wondered what it was advertising.Wikipedia says this:
Hippy Sippy was a candy introduced in the late 1960s. It derived its name from its packaging: small multi-colored pellets contained in a toy package syringe. The intent was to mimick drug usage in the hippie culture, primarily through the toy syringe being a reminder of heroin, and secondarily through the multi-colored candy being a reminder of uppers and downers. Included was a button with the phrase "Hippy Sippy says I'll try anything!" printed on it.
Hippy Sippy was immediately controversial, and outraged many people, including liberals and leaders of the (then) young generation. It was promptly removed from the market, but is still remembered due to its cultural shock value.
More recently, the name was adopted by saxophonist Hank Mobley for his song Hippy Sippy Blues.
Here's a pic of the original candy/toy. My pin appears to be different, but cooler than the one seen above.

Krofft Supershow Iron-ons

I can't recall where I got this, but I've had it for a long time. Like an idiot I used these on crappy shirts when I was in high school and into wearing freaky home made clothes. They did work pretty good though for being twenty years old, but when you use them the color fades out of the image. Luckily through the miracle of computers I have scanned and replenished the color of the Electra Woman image!

This is the image as it would appear after transferring it to a garment. Click here for the original reversed image, so you can print out your own Iron-on! You can get iron-on transfer paper just about anywhere printer paper and accessories are sold! If you should happen to make one, email me a picture of yourself wearing the shirt and I'll post it here! C'mon, it'll be fun!

Dime Store Fun: Jax 'n Ball

In the town where I grew up there's a store called Fairway Discount that has stuff like this that they probably have had on their shelves for twenty or thirty years.

80's Sticker Book

This summer I picked up this neat piece of nostalgia at a garage sale - A sticker collection from the early to mid 80's. It contains 20 pages of great sticker and really seems to encapsulate the era, featuring stickers of video game heroes, He-man, Transformers, baseball stars and much more! Periodically I'll be sharing the pages from this great book.

This is the cover of the sticker album, note the small price tag in the corner. I think it was well worth $2.50.

Some major 80's pop culture symbols: Skeletor, Michael Jackson, and.....a goose?

A whole collection of puffy monster stickers, I seem to remember these being in gumball machines. I wanna see Skull - Man Vs. The Skull .What a battle that would be!!! I also love the contrast between the monster stickers and the pretty rainbow scenes below them.