My auction pal Rebecca is on the lookout for a box of Wheaties with Gabrielle Douglas on the front. She’s been looking for it since the summer when she heard that the face of the African American Olympic…
Category: Sports
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…
I don’t know much about hockey or my city’s team the Philadelphia Flyers. But when I saw two long rows of Canada Dry soda cans with the team’s winged symbol on a shelf at the…
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…
“I coulda been a contender,” the auctioneer joked, quoting the famous Marlon Brando line from the movie “On The Waterfront.” He was reaching behind himself on the glass counter for one of two pairs of old boxing…
I was standing around waiting for some items to come up at auction when I spotted a stack of magazines on a table. They were vintage copies of Look magazine from the 1940s and 1960s,…
Bicycles come up pretty often at auction, but I usually ignore them because if I buy one, it’ll go the same route as an exercise bike or treadmill at my place. It will end up…
Golfing, divots and a game of pure fun
Posted in Black history, collectibles, and Sports
In my head, I can still see my golf buddy Gerald bent over a divot in the green grass, a small two-fanged tool in his hand, carefully repairing the groove he’d just made with his…