I've been in a pretty good mood this week,
thus and therefore...
'Almost Like Being in Love' - Frank Sinatra
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
March 2023's first haul of antiques and untiques
Been VERY busy this month,
which explains why this is the month's first collection:
Here we go!
antique blue and white spatterware mixing bowl
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1930s gold-filled Bausch & Lomb bifocals SOLD
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beautiful flowers in bowl or soap dish form
little vintage jewelry box SOLD
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hand-blown blue glass bud vase SOLD
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1960s wooden print block - 'Peace'
BEAUTIFUL spring floral hair receiver
You know these make excellent potpourri jars, right?
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lastly, but far from leastly is a marvelous Alfred Orlik double inkwell
That's it for today. More in April.
Until then, see more, get more here:
Monday, March 27, 2023
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Bag o' the Day
My shop has tons of items with tons of different floral prints, but few as unique and neato as this one...
flower and shadow flower.
supercalifragalisticmegafantastic, no?
YES!!
Get it here:
https://www.zazzle.com/flower_and_shadow_flower_print_tote_bag-256941065689527729
To see the nearly 2,000 accessories in my shop, go here:
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Tickets, please
Today, two tickets, same movie...
I don't actually remember seeing this twice. What really surprises me is that it was at the Orleans for more than two months.
Lotsa movies I saw more than once, in the theatre, i.e. not on TV.
Breaking Away - 3 times
Sixteen Candles - 3 times
The Elephant Man - 5 times. And yes, I cried every time.
I also have a vague memory of my younger brother and I trudging through ten city blocks, and mountains of snow to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Devon (6325 Frankford Avenue, Phila, PA), every evening for a week, because school was closed due to the heavy snow, and we were desperate to get out of the house. The Devon was, at the time, a third run theatre, where you could see recent-ish movies for a buck.
I'm guessing it began life as a normal movie theatre, but my first memories of it was as a theatre that had X-rated movies only. Which in retrospect is kinda shocking because this was a very good neighborhood at the time. (Unlike today, ugh.) Then it became a normal theatre where you could see movies for a buck. That lasted ten years, maybe. Maybe less, I'm not sure. Then it became a live theatre, but that didn't last long. The nabe is made up of people whose interest in live performance is limited to professional football, ice hockey, and baseball.
They even tried with Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up, hoping to attract the gazillions of Catholics in the nabe, and even that didn't fly.
Today, the building is a church.
Monday, March 20, 2023
Even MORE puzzling with Roy G. Biv
Our last collection with Roy G. Biv, was the G, i.e. green. And thus a collection of green-intensive jigsaw puzzles.
Today, we're doing the B AND the I, i.e. B = blue, and I = indigo.
Personally, I can't really tell the difference between blue and indigo.
SO...
Victorian tobacco ad
'A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.'
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It's kitten season!
at the beach!
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We also have puppies!
'A Mother's Plea for Peace'
another Victorian beauty
a happy elephant !!
Our next and final Roy G. Biv puzzles collection will have 'violet' (that's what the 'v' in Biv stands for) puzzles. AKA lavender or purple.
Until then, have a look see at the other 2,000+ puzzles in my shop, here:
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Tuesday Song of the Week
The Stones!
'Shattered' - the Rolling Stones
I always laugh when I hear this song.
Because...
Once I was in my high school library doing Idunnowhat. Then somehow one of the glass windows in the door broke.
A guy at another table yelled 'Shadooby.'
Bag o' the Day
A marvelous print from one of the marvelous fruit crate/vegetable crate labels in my collection.
SOOOOO cool and colorful and what and what.
Get it here: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7268433905475278034/1246245253435310544
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Bests and Worsts part II
I started my bests and worsts last year, with bakeries.
Now I'll rate something dear to my heart, to wit: health food stores.
Best Health Food Store
Haar's Health Food, 1437 S. Delsea Drive (i.e. Route 47), Vineland, NJ 08360
Oh, how I love this place. In addition to having health food and supplements and such for EVERY purpose, they also have a huge line of imported European sweets. Including, but not limited to, cat tongues chocolates. Something I've never heard of. The idea is they look remotely like cats' tongues. No cats harmed in the process. THEY"RE JUST CHOCOLATES.
Plus they have some regular-ish food.
And more than that. The place is really a must-see.
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Worst Health Food Store
In all my years on the planet, one thing I've noticed is that health food stores NEVER seem to go out of business.
This is about one that did, four or so years ago, after being in business for a gajillion years, i.e. Harry's Natural Foods, which was at 1805 Cottman Ave., in NE Philly.
It wasn't actually bad for all the reasons you'd expect.
But as time went by, the place got dirtier, and dirtier and dirtier. Like the last time the store had been thoroughly cleaned was sometimes during the Nixon administration.
I'd go in once in awhile to get this, that or the other, and be so turned off by the grime, that I'd make a quick exit. Even though they were fully stocked with all of your basic health food everything.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
The Star Made Me Buy It
Today's star is the lovely Veda Ann Borg for French's Bird Seed.
Every time I see these French's Bird Seed ads in old magazines, I think about this bird store that used to exist off of 5th St, in the Olney nabe of Philly. In the early 1990s, I worked not far from 5th street, and every once in awhile I would take a trip to 5th St on my lunch hour.
Back in the day, this had been a lovely neighborhood, rather German-intensive, but by the early 1990s, it was slowly sliding into slum status. But at late as the early 1990s there was still a German bookstore, and a German record store.
Today, it basically has the slum trifecta: nail salons, day care centers, Chinese takeout.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Mug of the Month
Something female and neato for Women's History Month,
and/or a "Women's History Month mug"
See the other HUNDREDS of mugs in my shop here: https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/mugs?ps=48&pg=2
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