The glass sphere with the wide green band around its middle resembled a transparent globe with gadgets inside. It was even tilted like the earth on its axis. But it wasn’t a globe, and none of the auction-goers seemed to…
Category: Businesses
Circus heroes on Dixie Cup ice cream lids
Posted in Businesses, collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, food, Performers, and Radio
When I saw the round paper discs lying in a box on the auction table, I was certain they were the lids for old milk bottles. Those glass bottles were delivered at homes before I was…
Inside boxing’s fabled old Blue Horizon
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Businesses, Culture, and Sports
Are there ghosts in here? The words shot from my brain straight through my mouth without warning. I was standing in the lobby of the Legendary Blue Horizon boxing venue in Philadelphia at the beginning…
Surfboard art, anyone?
Posted in Art, Businesses, Culture, Sports, and travel
I was strolling down a tight aisle of dark antique furniture when I first spotted these big splashes of color. They looked so out of place that I had to check them out. “They” were…
The end of candy-making at Weber’s
Posted in Businesses, and Greeting cards
I love chocolates, especially turtles with their uber-delicious caramel and pecans all layered together and mixing it up into one sweet taste. So, when I learned that an auction house was selling the remains of a…