The Tuesday Song of the Week

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'Cool for Cats'

Bag o' the Day

We haven't had a BotD for over a month!

Today's BotD is worth the wait.

Wanna see?

Eklay Plums label print

Get it here:

 https://www.zazzle.com/1930s_elkay_deluxe_plums_label_print_tote_bag-256248763330712897

Note that the shop has TONS more bags printed with old can prints and fruit crate/vegetable crate labels.

Wanna see the other 800+ tote bags in my shop?

Go here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/shopping+bags  

Tuesday Song of the Week

 We're back.

And I do intend to commit to having a TSotW EVERY Tuesday, like I used to.

Which brings us to today's TSofW, which is so dreamy and retro:

'Whispering Grass' - The Ink Spots

Today's antiques and untiques

We've had a FANTASTIC couple of weeks re: finding the amazing and awesome. 

 Such as...

Dragonware on steroids

 

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Royal Albert Lady Angela cup and saucer

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It's Monkey Time !!!  SOLD

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The most special thing we have at the moment   SOLD

Late 1940s wedding gown.

So simple -zero frou frou, zero beading, zero lace.

Just a bow at the neckline.

The gown is approximately a size 10.  

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Next we have something about 60 years older than the gown above: SOLD

I've seen the classic hen on the next, and bunny on the nest, and cat on the nest.  And even fox on the nest.  But this is the first time I've seen hand holding bird on the nest.

The patent date here is 1889.

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                    Kitty family!  SOLD

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That's it for today.

TONS more on the way.

Until then, see more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

Mug of the Month

Sorry it's took me this long,

but here's something fun and provocative the folks in the office will likely respond to:

Do YOU want money?

Note that this is just one of the 850+ mugs in my shop.

See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/drinkware 

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is...

Joan Crawford for Royal Crown Cola

This is from 1944.  

So many people today think of Joan Crawford as the harridan in Mommie Dearest, all rage, and heavy makeup and thick black eyebrows.

She was actually very beautiful in her prime.  Even without makeup.  Years ago, the hubbage and I were in Wellsboro, PA for a weekend, and in the restaurant of one of the old-timey historic hotels there is a sepia photo of Joan from around 1940, when she visited that hotel. In the photo she's very dressed down, and wearing zero makeup.

 

And yet REALLY good-looking.

 

Today it's 'RC Cola.'

BIG advertising ashtray haul

 Found at a yard sale this morning, EIGHT advertising ashtrays, 

and therefore,

EIGHT more additions to my advertising ashtray collection!!!

Wanna see?

 Hotel El Rancho Vegas

The first of the Las Vegas ashtrays that was part of this haul.

The ashtray the from original El Rancho, which had a horrible fire in the early 1960s, then limped along for awhile before going out of business entirely.  In the early 1980s, the Thunderbird renamed itself El Rancho, but that version closed in 1992.

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Joe W. Brown's Horseshoe Club

Lotsa interesting info on the 'net about this place.

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Now it's IHOP

But back in the day, it was the International House of Pancakes. 

I like that name better.

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La Fondue

'Fondue is fun!'

If there's anything more Seventies than fondue, I cannot think what it could be.

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Back to Las Vegas

The New Frontier

Demolished in 2007

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The Silver Slipper Casino

Some neat info on the 'net about this as well.

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Steve Phillips Restaurant 

Yonkers, NY

Today there's a McDonald's at that address.

True fact: My maternal great-grandparents' first stop in the US was Yonkers, circa 1894.  A hundred and a bunch of years later, I now have in-laws that live there.  

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Town Tavern

Bronxville, NY

It's now called 'JC Fogerty's Town Tavern.'

I also have in-laws in Bronxville.  

Downtown Bronxville has more stationery stores than anywhere else I've ever been.  

The Villager, which was/is(?) a literary magazine based in Bronxville, published one of my stories years ago.

Let's go to Broadway !!

 YES !!!

Specifically Broadway in the period from about 1912 to 1930.

Seven or eight years ago, I found at a flea market a huhYOOGE collection of Broadway playbills from that era.  

All the prints below come from that collection.

Still in business!

AND on a tapestry!

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A lovely Ziegfeld girl, with a coiffure that Mary Pickford wore in many of her films

 And on a tote bag!

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From the Academie National de Musique et de Danse's 1927 production of Faust.

The gent on the above mouse pad was listed in the playbill as M.(as in Monsieur) Huberty.

I wonder which role he played. 

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From Yip Yip Yaphank, a 1918 revue by Irving Berlin 

 AND on a clock!

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The Yankee Doodle Dandy's theatre must have closed many decades ago, but I can't find out when.

On a throw pillow!

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This is puzzling, because it's the Winter Garden Company at Jolson's 50th Street Theatre

What were they doing there, if not at the Winter Garden???

Maybe not the Winter Garden, but on a lamp shade.

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One of the coolest ones in the collection, this was the playbill for
1927 Broadway production of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi

 On a jigsaw puzzle!

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That's it for today.  

HUNDREDS more in my Zazzle store!

See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=Broadway  

Our latest haul of antiques and untiques

As ever and always, lotsa awesome awesomeness!

Such as...

1960s Caravelle watch pendant   SOLD

This is a windup watch in PERFECT working order.  Note that the dial on all these watches are upside down, which means all you have to do to check the time is just look down.  No need to pick up the watch.  

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    My career's FIRST Stangl bird  SOLD

2021 is my 29th year of antiquing and untiquing, yet it's taken me all this time to locate a Stangl bird.  

Isn't it beautiful?

(Yes.  Yes it is.)

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Overwhelmingly cute 1960s cuteness!  SOLD

in NOS (new old stock) xylophone form !!

This is just one of two that I have.  The other one - well, I'm having a hard time getting a good picture of it, but it is just as cute as this one.  And is also NOS.

Note that this one and that other one both include wooden mallets.

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         Christmas IS coming   SOLD

So between then and now, why not make a nutcracker doll?

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This I should have posted yesterday, since it was Memorial Day  SOLD

World War I soldier

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             instant rock collection !   SOLD

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That's it for today.

See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques 

June's cool ties! Retro ties!! Vintage print ties !!!

Continuing with the Roy G. Biv theme, today we're going the 'B' in the Biv:

i.e. blue print ties

ultra neato manticore / sphynx print

 Note that I have manticore print ties in a variety of colors. 

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1939 Bowlus-duPont sailplane

My shop has ties with prints of other circa 1939 military aircraft.

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1934 Lincoln

My shop has oodles of ties with prints of antique and classic cars

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a head a' lettuce

The shop has loads more ties with prints of old fruit and vegetable crate labels.

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1920s Arrow shirts and collars* ad

hand-colored by yours truly!

*Back in the day, the collar was separate from the shirt.

Got lots more ties with more vintage and antique advertising prints, many hand-colored.

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                                                   Yankee Doodle is in the house!

The shop has lots more ties with black silhouette prints.

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See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/ties 

Tuesday Song of the Week

Sorry to have not posted a TSotW since the end of March.

But they're BACK.

And with something you might have seen/heard already, but it's so absofreakinlutely awesome, it's worth another look or five:

                                                  'Uptown Funk' - Bruno Mars

                                          with a video featuring a cast of dozens