Vintage Galveston Vintage Galveston, Electric Park and Camp Bowie pictures are among the images I discovered in a rare World War I scrapbook in 2018. I purchased it at a local flea marketing in Oklahoma City. This is Part 2 in the blog post series highlighting these...
The Lost Generation, b. 1883-1900 The Lost Generation was the 9th generation of Americans. Born between 1883 and 1900, they were defined as a Nomad generation by two prominent historians, the late William Strrauss, and Neil Howe. Generation X shares their archetype...
Today, is the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day and the end of World War 1. In late October, I promised to post pictures from the rare World War 1 photo album I picked up at a local flea market. Here is a picture from the first page of the album. Click here to read...
My latest flea market find is a 1930s Premier Premalite / Bakelite manicure set in orange juice. The swirl of colors in the early plastic is why it's identified in color as it is. Premalite came after Bakelite, a type of molded plastic that was used to make kitchen...
Frank went to a flea market in search of an 8 mm projector. He found one, and inside the case was a family's lost 8 mm memories from 1976 and 1977. He uploaded the vintage film to YouTube in 2013. It doesn't appear that anyone has laid claim to it yet. The collection...
The longer I blog about my generation, Generation X, the 13th generation of Americans, and the older I get, the more it feels as if I'm merely compiling a record of demographic nearly forgotten before it could be remembered. Were we - are we - truly a lost generation...
A series of 8mm home movies were purchased at a flea market. The buyer reports that films were well shot, and according to the professionally-labeled reels, Jennifer Steen would have been born in 1967, perhaps in Houston, Texas. Other films are labeled "Kay family...
A few years ago, I scored a Wolverine tin doll house at a local flea market / swap meet in Oklahoma City. I finally got around to taking pictures of it along with all the cool little furniture that came with it. Tin Doll House Value I did some checking and this...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. Shouldn't I have written about this before August? Probably. I bought Generation X back in 1991. When I showed the book to my dad, he talked to me about the...
If you're lost you can look and you will find me, time after time. -- Cyndi Lauper, 1984 This is my first Crissy Doll. It's only been about 40 years since I first asked Santa to bring me one. I found her, a Gen-Xer first-born in 1969, (haha!) at Mary's Flea Market....
We stole away to Southeast Oklahoma a few weeks ago to celebrate the end of school and the start of summer. All our dreams packed into both Jeeps because one isn't big enough to carry all these hopes. Hopes for a perfect weekend. a perfect cabin, a perfect campfire....
It snowed yesterday in Oklahoma City! I can't remember a time when it snowed this early in the season. The gold leaves on my Sully's tree always fall too fast for me. But, I do love the snow, and I welcomed a Snow Day! We started the day with cornmeal mush. It made...