Lucky Dip

I had 8 gazillion sales from my Zazzle store this year.

What's super neato about that is that all 8 gazillion things are still available.  They're not a one-time thing.  The same tote bag, the same tablecloth, the same jigsaw puzzle can be sold over and over and over, because I uploaded the image, made a tote bag, a tablecloth, a jigsaw puzzle, and because they save the image on the tote bag, the tablecloth, the jigsaw puzzle, they can keep making them.

Which is kinda marvelous.  In that you get send the same tote bag, tablecloth or jigsaw puzzle to all 32 of your extended family !!

Anyway, here's today's collection:

                                             An intensely lovely fruit basket paperweight.

Perfect for the fruit-intensive decor, chintz decor, cottagecore decor.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/beautiful_fruit_basket_paperweight-256120066311584276

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                                      Some maaahvelous abstract print car mats.

I don't get why this photo looks so bad.  Know that the mats look MUCH better than the photo.

Get 'em here: www.zazzle.com/byzantine_print_car_floor_mat-256110800164049491

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                                        SUPER cute SUPER floofy dogs tile

Something appealing for the dog-intensive decor, floofy dog decor, and/or a great gift for the fan of floofy canines.

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/cute_floofy_dogs_ceramic_tile-256734151190368383

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                                              History's Most Beautiful Yoga Mat

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/red_white_and_blue_abstract_print_yoga_mat-256675996284425394

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                                                    BEAUTIFUL rose print scarf

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/victorian_red_rose_print_scarf-256081501095794451

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                                                            LOTSA fun in tapestry form, 

watching mice at a shoe store-shoemaking establishment. 

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/mainzer_mice_cobblers_and_shoe_store_print_tapestry-256326947097642479

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Thus ends today's Lucky Dip.  

More in a week or two. 

 

New additions to my advertising ashtrays collection

Today we have SIX.

I saw four on Etsy, and when I bought them, the lovely vendor gave me two more gratis.

Wanna see?

                   KNAK was a radio station in Salt Lake City, UT back in the day. 

According to the 'net, it was the number on teen rock 'n roll station in the 1960s.  At some point the call letters moved elsewhere, but still, I'm pretty sure, remained in the Salt Lake City area.

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                                                                         Mr. Ed's

There's a Mr. Ed's Restaurant group based in New Orleans, with seven restaurants, five of which have some version of the name Mr. Ed, but since it was founded in 1989, I'm guessing this might be from an earlier Mr. Ed place.

Or not, because the smoke-free ordinance in New Orleans went into effect in 2015, i.e. 26 years after the place(s) was founded.  

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                                                                Mr. Steak
 

 "America's Favorite FAMILY restaurant."

 Founded in 1962, and by the 1970s had 300 locations in 36 states.and Canada.

Done by the late 1980s when the parent company declared bankruptcy, after having diversified the menu, adding poultry, fish, and greens, which I guess alienated the steak-loving crowd..  The last Mr. Steak closed in St, Charles, MO in 2009.

Among the fun happenings in America's Favorite FAMILY Restaurant, kids were given paper cow masks.   

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                                                        Scott Shady Court

Still in business!

And offering "EXTENDED STAY options for drillers, mine workers and other contract laborers."

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                                                         YMCA Hotel, Chicago
 
Opened in 1916, and closed as a hotel in 1979, when it was turned into residential apartments. 

True fact: US YMCA headquarters is in Chicago.

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                                                        Frontier Motel
 
 Still in business!

 

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I discovered this when my hubs was watching football on Thanksgiving a few years ago.

Me no watch football no never.

I was in the kitchen, and I hear this REALLY cool song someone's singing during the halftime show.

That was today's TSOTW:

                                                      Shaboozey - A Bar Song

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is Diana Lynn for Strutwear...

The ad names her most recent film, entitled Bitter Victory.  

However there's only one movie I could find under that title, and she's not in it.

 

So either they planned to cast her, but didn't, or they title of the movie she was in was changed to something else.   

 

Diana Lynn was one of those sweet young things with a heavy music background.  Other girls in the clump were Gloria Jean, June Haver, and Deanna Durbin,  

September 2026's Second Haul of Antiques and Untiques

More marvelous marvels for this very nice day, which is the first very nice day after several days of a scary-ish Nor'easter.

Wanna see?

First up, we have History's Coolest Music-Theme Brooch:

        Rather huge, measuring more than 3" wide and more than 3" high.  Signed AJC.

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Let's go to Hawaii !!

 

                                               In a Ui-Maikai muu muu  !!

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Now here's something VERY unique and special, to wit...

                                             brass and carnelian frog figurine

Me love frogs and turtles.

Two brief frog stories from my life:

I used to have two wicker herons on my porch.  There was a recessed thingie on their backs, where you could put a planter.

On day I was out on the porch, and I noticed in one of the planters was this tiny - like 1" or so tiny - frog.  

                                            not my tiny frog, but about the same size.

The planter was about three feet from the ground, so I had zero idea how this tiny frog managed to get in there.  

My other frog story is not much of a story, although I remember it fondly.

In Stokes State Park, up in Sussex County, NJ, there's a spot where there are two taps out of which comes spring water.

FREE spring water.

I have a case at an antiques co-op in Branchville (Ole Church Antiques.  Mine is the case that faces the door.  MUST SEE. Plus I have one in the basement of the shop.  MUST FIND.) 

Anyway, after I go there, and put stuff in my cases, and collect my sales $$$$$, I go to Stokes to get water.

One day I was filling up my bottles (my bottles are used 48 ounce glass kombucha bottles, not those ginormous plastic thingies.  Glass is waaaayyyyy healthier than plastic.),

While I was doing my thing, out from the rocks comes hopping a very attractive, very green frog.   

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                                   The World's Most Beautiful Nippon Pitcher

Could double as a planter !!.

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                                                 hand carved wooden cat plaque

Christmas is coming, you know.

So is Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus.

Any cat lover would LOVE this.

I say this as a cat lover.

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Let's mix it up !!

                         in Anchor Hocking Chanticleer pattern mixing bowls !!!

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Thus ends today's collection.

Until next time, see more, get more here:

AntiquesUntiques.etsy.com

Lucky Dip

Welcome to today's - i.e. September 20, 2026's - Lucky Dip.

Wanna see?

  There will be Christmas in a couple months, and there will be horrible tasteless Christmas ties.  

We have a CLASSY Christmas tie.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/1950s_christmas_in_the_city_print_neck_tie-256480514916912539

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There will also be Halloween even sooner...

So if you need party plates, and party napkins for your Halloween party, we got 'em:

                                                                 party plates
 

Get 'em here: www.zazzle.com/liz_is_horrified_and_terrified_paper_plates-256742208306865883

                                                            party napkins
 

Get 'em here:  www.zazzle.com/scary_fiendish_horror_monster_portrait_paper_dinner_napkins-256423236999421967

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Enough about holidays.  Let's see some more awesome awesomeness...

 

                                         Above is a maaaahhhhvelous rug.  

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/abstract_flowers_print_rug-256855383609490269 

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Another maaahvelous item, this one a tote bag.  Antique print was subtitled 'The Model'

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/the_model_crossbody_bag-256697018392826804

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Last, but thousands of miles from least:

                                          dog, bird, and nature print throw blanket
 
 Get it here: www.zazzle.com/woodland_scene_with_dog_and_bird_sherpa_blanket-256592824968128631

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Thus ends today's collection.

More next week !!! 

Found Online

                                                           Beautiful swan. 

 Found, I'm pretty sure, on one of those photography contests.

BTW, you haven't lived until you've heard swans in flight.  

A couple years ago, the hubs, and I were riding our bikes around Lake Lily, which is in Cape May Point, NJ.  They're are usually a swan or three in that lake.  When they rise to fly the sound of their wings flapping is a VERY memorable sound. 

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I heard this wild song last week when I was in the car, and radio surfing.

Enjoy.

                                                 'Elvis Is Everywhere' - Mojo Nixon'  

Drum Roll !!!

Last month I mentioned that I was going to count how many old advertising ashtrays were in my collection.

Turns out the total is...

*************** 159 ***************

That's one hundred and fifty-nine advertising ashtrays, bought over a period of... well I don't know exactly, but really - how cool is it to have that many???

Extremely so, I'd say.. 

Here's my latest vintage advertising ashtray:

                                                  Bavarian Premium Beer

                                         Mount Carbon Brewery - Pottsville, PA 

Mount Carbon Brewery ran from 1941 until 1977.  Yuengling bought the rights to the name and label, but retired it a few years later.

Our Latest Advertising Ashtray

Just one this time, 

Although I found another one, but it grew legs, and now it's hiding from me.

So...

                                                    Acorn Drive-In Restaurant
                                         North Salisbury Boulevard, Salisbury, Maryland

Not a whole lot of info about this place on the 'net.  Mainly just that it morphed into Acorn Market, which closed in 2020.  

The squirrel is kinda cute.                                                    

September 2026's First Haul of Antiques and Untiques

Since our last haul of antiques and untiques, I've found TONS of maaaahvelous merchandise.  Which I haven't actually gotten to, but which will appear in my Etsy shop soon. 

Anyway, what you came here for today:

                                         Branchell Color Flyte flanged bowls

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                                       a totally FANTASTIC item for the unicorn collector 

Two unicorns on a white cloud, under which is a music box that plays 'The Impossible Dream"

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Next up, History's Cutest Bunny Cookie Jar !!

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Edwin Knowles 'Blossom Time' pattern dessert bowls - set of four.

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Now here's something WAY special.. 

two VERY art deco Hattie Carnegie perfume bottles

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Lastly, but thousands of miles from leastly we have...

circa 1905 Carl Tiesch fruit bowl 

 

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Thus ends today's collection.

More coming !!!

Until then, see more, get more here:

AntiquesUntiques.Etsy.com 

The Tuesday Song of the Week

 This week's TSOTW is posted in memory of Tim Curry...

                              'Sweet Trans(vestite)' from The Rocky Horror Picture Show 

The brackets are there because don't want nobody to delete this.  At least not yet.  
 

The Star Made Me Buy It

 Today's star is Madeleine Carroll, here shilling for Calox Tooth Powder...

The upcoming movie in the ad is Cafe Society, which came out in 1939.

I don't know much about Madeleine Carroll, never having seen one of her films.  However, I remember reading somewhere that she was beautiful to the max, although in her still photos she doesn't look a whole lot different from many other 1930s pretty faces.  

Commercial tooth powders are still out there, but there are also tons of recipes for homemade tooth powder to be found on the 'net.  I'd try that before I'd pay for it.  

Lucky Dip

I'm in a purple mood today.

Thus and therefore, today's Lucky Dip is made up of purple items:

Wanna see?

                                        Macho macho man in purple and on a necktie !!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/macho_macho_man_in_purple_neck_tie-256087183237977672

See all - or at least most of - my ties here: www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&qs=ties

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                                                 manticore pocket watch !!!

A manticore is a legendary critter with the head of a man and the body of a lion. Some descriptions say the manticore has the tail of a scorpion, but clearly our manticore has a lion's tail. 

BTW, note that sorta faint-ish spot is NOT on the actual watch.  Likely from a little glare in the photo.  

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/manticore_in_purple_pocket_watch-256893375212991535

See the rest of my watches - which are not many as yet, but MANY more coming - here: www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=48&qs=watches&dp=252215319309773652 

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                      Queen Helene of Romania Roumania Rumania is in the house !! 

AND on a button !!!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/queen_marie_of_romania_as_the_sun_queen_purple_pinback_button-145545477761897528 

See all my other buttons here:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&qs=buttons%20pins&dp=252214659170826953

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                                   It's high time to get a cooler than average clock !!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/antique_middle_eastern_motif_large_clock-256997912232380391

See the rest of my maaahvelous clocks here:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&qs=clocks

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                             We all know that the prettiest flowers are purple flowers.

AND that they look fantastic on throw pillows !!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/purple_monkshoods_throw_pillow-189476617487398519

See the rest of my FABULOUS pillows here: www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&qs=pillows

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                           Purple print floor mats will make your cool car 500% cooler !!

Get 'em here:  www.zazzle.com/victorian_motif_in_purple_car_floor_mat-256802720169222919

See the rest of my car floor mats - which as now are not many, but will soon be - here:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=48&qs=floor%20mats

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You can see all the purple and semi-purple items in my Zazzle shop here:

www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&qs=purple

Mug of the Month

 Enjoy your morning coffee with Sitting Bull !!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/sitting_bull_coffee_mug-168431512750165854

Found Online

It doesn't get much sweeter than this, which I think I found...

well, I forget exactly, but it was somewhere online:

Found Online

This is a MUST SEE, as well as a hoot of hoots.

With a surprise at the end:

And yes, it is who you think it is.  

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is a kinda unique choice:

                                         Charles Laughton for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

Charles Laughton was one of those old timey actors whose every performance was perfection.

His performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame always makes me cry.   

His performance in Ruggles of Red Gap is a total hoot.   

Another one that pulls at my heartstrings is his role in This Land Is Mine.  That movie is a must-see, being one of the few World War II movies that do not actually show much fighting, although there are several Nazis being evil in it.