The first time I recall seeing a flip book was in the 1981 movie “Ragtime.” I remember watching with the amazement of a kid as the immigrant Tateh held the book in one hand and with…
Month: June 2018
1906 raffle ticket to help buy an artificial leg
Posted in Advertising, camera, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Home, and Lighting
When I saw the pink raffle ticket in the glass case at the auction house, I figured it was like any other ticket. Who hasn’t bought a raffle ticket to help out a church, group…
“Blacula” movie poster recalls ‘70s blaxploitation films
Posted in Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Movies
One wall at the auction house was plastered with movie posters, but I saw only one that I actually wanted. It was for the movie “Blacula,” a black Dracula for those movie-goers who in the…
The receipts looked like nothing more than fountain-pen scribbles on a sheet. Looking closer, though, I could read the names of some of the products that were sold by this wholesaler in 1900. I love…
The man’s grainy photo looked as if it was straight out of a newspaper. He stared out unabashedly, a bowler hat set squarely atop his head. His picture was in the center of a mugshot card along with his…
“Oh my God,” I heard the woman exclaim loudly. I’m sure she didn’t mean for everyone in the room at the auction house to hear her. But most of us had the same reaction when…
Remembering Aunt Sarah & her dolls
Posted in Dolls
I met Aunt Sarah some years ago when I lived in Florida, and drove with her niece and my good friend Yvonne to Jacksonville to visit her and Uncle Stafford. Aunt Sarah was a sweet…