Posted 2 years ago
bahamaboy
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These are just a few more lighters from the 50's and 1960's. Not real old and nothing special but not worth throwing out.
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Vintage Guru Reveals Her Glamour Secrets
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intage can be intimidating. It's certainly not as simple as going to the mall, finding your size, and buying a mass-produced outfit. You have to dig through racks and racks of wildly diverse items, with mysterious sizing, looking for…
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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The Beautiful Chaos of Improvisational Quilts
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Our Dad, the Water Witch of Wyoming
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This 1959 Goggomobil Is Insanely Cute and Gets 55 MPG. Why Can’t Detroit Do That?
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California Cool: How the Wetsuit Became the Surfer's Second Skin
When Bob Meistrell started surfing in Northern California during the early 1950s, 20 minutes was about all he could stand in the frigid coastal waters. Despite the constant rush of …
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The Unfiltered History of Rolling Papers, Plus Tommy Chong's Big Fat Jamaican Vacation
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World's Smallest Museum Finds the Wonder in Everyday Objects
Tucked away in a lower Manhattan back alley, the freight-elevator-sized, generically named Museum is one of New York City's newest curiosities.…
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Fightin’ Femmes: Unmasking Female Superheroes with Author Mike Madrid
When I was growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, reading comics wasn't as popular as it had been in the ’40s or ’50s. But my older sister had comics, including a big collection of “Betty and Veronica.” Our parents encouraged us to read everything, so at 6 years old…
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Cigarette LightersVintage cigarette lighters are among the most popular collectibles today, b…
I like your lighters too I have alot of them too.Thanks again .Chat any time.toyman
I'm beginning to wonder to myself?? What "don't" I collect?? It's a bloody addiction, I tell ya... Not a collection, but an addiction, plain & simple. Absolutely "terminal" with no cure in sight... Back at ya on the chat...
It's a sickness , I know that for sure, sometime the wife says Fred Sanford doesn't have half the junk I've got, lol
Buttttt... There are far worse addictions to have... or so they say. Whoever "they" are...
Yes I have it bad! Do you have any medicine for this problem?
Like the actor said in "Con Air" that played Garland Green the "mass murderer" (the name escapes me). "There is no medicine for what I have".
You are alright bahamaboy.My sister was maried to a guy from bahamas his name was clive and. I always liked his sayings.He would say things like Dont let someone put a bad spoke in your wheel.And you cant put a good man down.Ya I rember him.It sounds like your agood guy too.
Actually I'm a born and raised Floridian. Just spent a lot of time (11 winters in a row) on the out islands Bahamas surfing & diving. Mainly Abaco, Eleuthera, San Salvador (Columbus 1st landfall) and Cat island. Lived in a cave near the surf break between Gregory Town & Hatchet Bay on Eleuthera for almost 9 months til the policia made me leave the country because my papers had expired and I wasn't contributing to the economy. Actually was selling my extra catch of lobster & grouper each afternoon to the natives to keep myself in Becks & St Paulie Girls. This was not what they liked to see from the touristas. They (we) were supposed to support the economy, not live off it. Don't know why I just went off on this island tangent but it does bring to mind another item to post. I just unscrewed it off my garage wall. Coming up very next post. So stay tuned...