Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in collectibles, and Home
“Hello, hello. Is anyone there?” the man asked knowingly into the receiver. He knew that no one was on the other end, just like the other folks who had tried out the red and beige…
Posted in collectibles, and Kitchen
I stood there for a few minutes just reading the messages painted in white letters carved on the cast-iron trivets. There about 30 of the pieces, most with some witty, funny or thoughtful aphorism that…
As soon as I saw it, I was impressed with the drawing of the little black boy on the book’s dust jacket. He was decently dressed in an outfit that put him in the early…
Posted in Games
I was just wasting some time at auction recently, nosing around on tables when I saw the little box almost hidden under more towering items. “Mystery meter, Love meter” was the title, and I was…
I’ve seen the little shoes that parents have cast in bronze as a memory of the time when their babies were cute and little and oh-so-precious. Imagine my surprise when I came upon a whole baby…
Posted in Music
I wasn’t sure what was in the long black box I spied on the floor under the auction table. I assumed it was a musical instrument, because they come up for bids pretty often. I…
I spotted the racing car as soon as I turned the corner. Its slender body, low to the floor, took up a large block of space inside the frame of a mattress-less bed. Its orange…
The doll bed was in awful condition. It was dusty. It was dirty, and the ropes that once crisscrossed its bottom were busted, now only remnants. The bed still had its four wooden posts and…
Posted in African American women, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Music, and Performers
I recognized the profile on the album cover as soon as I saw the name. Who wouldn’t know the stacked buns and long black ponytail that was the trademark hairstyle of the incomparable Josephine Baker. It’s not often that…
