Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Advertising, Personal items, and TV
I’d seen cereal-box premiums that were the rage during the early years of TV advertising. These were aimed at children, enticing and coaxing them to get their mothers to buy cereal so the kid could…
As soon as I saw the mammoth TV with the wide screen, I thought of a friend of mine. The big-screen TV was a floor model that probably weighed a ton, and was sitting in…
Posted in collectibles, Home, Lighting, and TV
Wow, I thought as I saw the two shelves of rather unusual but lovely lamps at the auction house. There were almost a dozen of them – all made of glazed ceramic in the colors…
A friend of mine introduced me to Food Network star Paula Deen some years ago. I had watched a lot of cooking shows on the network but had never seen hers. So I looked her…
Posted in Children, Clocks, collectibles, Toys, and TV
Did you have one of those, I asked the man idling in front of his tables of vintage toys in a far corner of the main ballroom at the nostalgia convention. He had been sitting behind…
Posted in collectibles, Signs, and TV
My friends had been pushing me to watch the new PBS show “Market Warriors” since it began airing a couple weeks ago. Not because it was entertaining and they thought that perhaps I could learn something from it.…
