Seemed like pretty often, a sleigh turned up at auction around Christmas time. Since most of the auction houses have temporarily closed and moved online, I haven’t seen any this year. But several have appeared…
Category: travel
The trunk was an eyesore. It was big and ugly with patches of its black cover missing, revealing the wood underneath. The wooden slats were dirty, and the metal hinges were rusty. The interior was…
Every now and then on Facebook, a relative of mine posts a photo of himself or herself standing next to their new BMW or Mercedes or a bright red Hummer. Showing it off is a…
Old wagon revives memories of a man’s childhood
Posted in Advertising, Asian, and travel
I’d seen the dealer at this auction house many times before. I never found him very friendly, but lately he had begun to nod or offer a quiet hello to me. I knew that he…
Seeing those hard-side green suitcases took me smack back into the past. I had a set of them during my college years. I’d fill each of the three matching pieces with the few clothes I could afford…
The thick and heavy photo albums lay among the even weightier Victorian family Bibles. Many of the Bibles and albums were in dark tones of browns and blacks tempered with gold leaf, except for two.…
A mesmerizing old Ford truck & the highway it calls home
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, travel, and Vehicles
To me, it was a no-name highway, a stretch of lonely road that I took each December to buy pecans from a market not far off I-75 south when I visited my family in Georgia.…
Daily schedule for 1970 TS Bremen Caribbean cruise from NY
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and travel
I had never heard of the TS Bremen, but when I saw a schedule for a 1970 cruise to the Caribbean, I quickly picked it up. Cruises are still big business, and I was curious…
I knew I needed new tires because my handyman had already done the penny test on the tread of the Michelins that had come on the used Mazda 6 I had bought in 2014. It…
Nostalgic remnants of Route 66 don’t tell the whole story
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and travel
The words “Route 66” spark in my mind a childhood memory of a scene from the old TV show of the same name with Tod Stiles and Buz Murdock. They’re in a room with an elderly…