Saturday, March 31, 2018

Easter Cards and Postcards

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I found these Easter postcards, some more than 100 years old, at an estate sale.   Rabbits were busy in 1913. A few years later, s...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

WPA Recreation Puzzlement

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Last week I rescued this wooden box from an estate sale in Southern California.   It's about 12 x 12 x 6 inches, and it intrigued me...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Gladys' Photo Album: Dancing on the Rooftop at Work, 1926

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Sometimes I buy things at estate sales because I take pity on them. I see them and know that they need to be in a place where someone can tr...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Being the Chief Witch Doctor

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The family had lived in their Southern California house since it was built in 1932, and the items at their estate sale showed that the...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

The All-American Girl and the Letter from Santa

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The other day I came across a plastic bag with some items I had found at a “living” estate sale a couple of years ago.  The elderly ...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Flashback: Chicago Cubs, 1908 (and 1969)

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When I was a kid, I lived in a Spring Training town in the southwest.  I have very clear memories of riding my bike home from school through...
Friday, July 1, 2016

The Distinctive Ranch Homes of Hiawatha T. Estes

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"Fifty-plus years in the same house," the ad for the estate sale read. As more and more Baby Boomers and members of the ...
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