tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10264381037064780062024-03-18T06:10:58.342-04:00Our Adventures Amongst The DucksRob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-5269585374329503882020-05-11T19:30:00.000-04:002020-05-11T19:30:06.775-04:00Flashback - The Last Half Of February, 2020<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're now into the second week of May and we don't have any new saling stories to tell. With the coronavirus still running rampant, estate sales are still a distant dream. We've been catching up on the six month period during which our blog was on hiatus and this post will bring us up to date. This post covers the last half of February, 2020.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That second weekend began with Valentine's Day and roses were there for Monica</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monica left a message in rose petals for Rob</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made a heart-shaped pizza for dinner. We would go out for Valentine's dinner the following weekend when the restaurants were not as crowded. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day was Saturday and that meant estate sales. There were only two on our list and we both had different preferences. Both started around the same time. We decided to do something a little different. Rob went to the one that started thirty minutes earlier but was a little further away. His plan was to get there early, get what he wanted and then meet Monica at the second sale where she would get a head start. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rob got to his sale about 45 minutes before the start and he was the first one there. It was run by a tag sale company that we really like but this was a modest one for them. Most of the things in the pictures for the ad were not of interest to us but there were a few good Christmas things and that was the attraction.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Some of the Christmas things were upstairs and some were on this table. Most of them turned out to be new but there were a few older pieces and Rob got everything he wanted in twenty minutes. He then made his way to Monica's sale which she was about to enter.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>That vintage three-tiered wooden monkey pod in the back right was what Monica wanted but the price was too high and Monica decided against getting it though Rob, upon his arrival, tried to talk her into letting him get it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The house did have a pink bathroom and a few other cool things but nothing that we were interested in except a few pins which we brought home.<br /><br />This was the end of our saling experiences for this weekend as the sales on Sunday were not all that intriguing. We did find a few things and here is what they were:</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the last weekend of February arrived, we decided to go out to dinner. Monica has had her eye on a Polish restaurant nearby. Every review raves about their Hungarian potato pancakes so we knew we would get them plus pierogies, of course, since it is a Polish restaurant! We would order both and split them so we could each enjoy both dishes! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob got a very delicious Polish ale</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weekend didn't have much for us in terms of sales. On Saturday, we went to a second day sale where all items were free. Day one was Friday and there were some cool vintage Easter and Halloween things as well as some vintage salt and pepper shakers. Those were no longer here but </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we did find a couple of things to bring home and, since they were free, the price was right! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sunday, there was one private sale in our town. There was very little of interest and what was there was overpriced. We left empty-handed.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent Sunday at home which, in a few weeks, would become standard operating procedure. This post concludes our effort to catch up on our activities during the six month period during which our blog was at rest. We had a longer period of inactivity back in 2018 and early 2019. We will begin to catch up on those weeks starting in a few days in a series of posts we will call "Deep Flashbacks". See you soon! </b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-15534466859377115302020-04-27T20:20:00.000-04:002020-04-27T20:20:38.459-04:00Flashback - The First Two Weekends of February, 2020<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There's nothing all that new in Social Distancing Land. The pandemic seems to have reached its peak here and the curve is trending downwards but we remain a long way away from life as it was once. As we await the opportunity to go to estate sales again, we are catching up on the period of time when our blog was on hiatus for six months. This post covers the first two weekends of February, 2020. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The dining room table and chairs were very 60's mod.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The basement had homemade cabinets with drawers that had crazy angles! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This side of the basement was amazing! Knotty wood pine and great staircase shelves! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Whereas this picture on the wall was so scary! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">It wasn't hard to find the sale because it was in Monica's hometown. We got here nice and early so we could get in quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">We checked the basement first which had boxes of holiday items. Unfortunately, they were all new things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">The main level was not modern by any stretch of the imagination but there was not much here for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">The bookcase was filled with books and knickknacks. We didn't select any books but we did find a pair of old elves there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">The upstairs had rooms with drawers and boxes to search. We found a lot of cool old postcards and some came home with us as did some cool old towels. The lampshade on the desk was great but we weren't fond of the lamp itself so it did not come home with us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">It wasn't that there wasn't anything there. It's just that there was nothing for us...except some records which we found upstairs and brought home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">We had Sunday to relax and stay at home to catch up on chores, a practice that we didn't realize would become an every day way of life just a month later. We'll get past this as will all of you. We just have to exercise some restraint and patience a little while longer until life returns to normal. If we are going to be stuck inside, at least we are doing so with the person we love so very much!<br /><br />We will catch up with you some more very soon! </span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-54174590303177336972020-04-25T21:06:00.000-04:002020-04-25T21:06:10.930-04:00Flashback - The Last Half Of January, 2020<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well...there are no new estate saling adventures on which to report but I'm sure you figured that out. The coronavirus is still wreaking habit on the world and we remain at Ground Zero. It will still be at least a few months before estate sales are live again and we're prepared to wait it out. In the meantime, we're catching up on the six month period during which our blog was on hiatus. This post will recap the second half of January, 2020. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third weekend in January was a weekend without any estate sales of interest to us. There were no sales but there was snow. That should not seem unusual for winter in New York but it was in 2020. This storm brought us 3.5 inches of snow. We had no other snow the entire month. Spoiler alert: We did not get any snow in February or March, 2020 at all! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following Friday, we had a concert and, for once, it was local. China Crisis was playing in a converted movie theater located just fifteen minutes from our house. We last saw them in 2013 when they played an acoustic set and they were great that night! </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Saturday, we had only one sale and it was in our town. It wasn't run by an estate sales company. It was the family trying to empty the decedent's house. It was worth a drive to see what there might be. We were there a few moments before they opened and we knew there wouldn't be a lot of competition here.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The basement had several boxes which we searched looking for hidden gems. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This old outdoor chair for two would have been great if we had the room for it. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This pole lamp was great but we didn't take it home that day. Spoiler alert: You will see it again in a future flashback post.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monica posed behind what was once a basement bar. We didn't find a lot here but we did not leave empty handed. Pictures to follow.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That Saturday was Chinese New Year and we went to Doc Lee Lau to celebrate. It has been around since the 1970's. A few years ago, they updated their decor (which would not have been our decision) but their food is as good as always and they still offer tiki drinks in tiki mugs though we did not have one this night.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This room divider remains from the original Doc Lee Lau. It is always fun to celebrate Chinese New Year here together even if the rest of the restaurant has been modernized.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We had Sunday to do our housework, shopping and other chores and we also had a chance to look at what we found on Sunday. This is what we saw:</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sunday night, we celebrated Monica's dad's birthday (a day early). Monica's dad always chooses donuts instead of birthday cake but that doesn't mean that we don't need a birthday candle! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monica, Monica's sister, Monica's brother and Monica's dad at the birthday celebration! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweety, of course, was ready to party! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday, we went to a book signing at a book store near us. MIke Eruzione wrote a book and he was signing copies. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">IN case you don't know who Mike Eruzione is, he was the captain of the USA gold medal winning hockey team at the 1980 Olympics. He was also the one who scored the winning goal against the highly favored Russian team in the semifinal game. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike Eruzione's new book</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The title page of our book signed by Mike Eruzione</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We may not have had many sales during those last two weeks in January but those weeks weren't lacking for fun and adventure and what always makes that most special is that those adventures were made together! </b></span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-65191789066211426252020-04-19T20:55:00.000-04:002020-04-19T20:55:24.660-04:00Easter and Monica's Birthday Week 2020<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The world is not yet back to normal. We're not even close but we're not forgetting how to live. We're learning how to adapt and make the best of what there is. Easter was not a big family get together this year but we made the most of it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We dyed Easter eggs though we only dyed six of them and we did not decorate them with messages as we usually do. We didn't want to make an extra trip outside to get more eggs not did we want to make a trip to our storage space to get the rest of the Easter decorations which includes the crayons we use to write messages on the eggs. These six were fine.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>...but it was so much better than our first effort years ago when it looked like a cross between a lamb and a Dr. Seuss character which became the infamous "Lamb I Am" incident! </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The end of the week brought us Monica's birthday (though this is from a few years ago). We couldn't follow through on the plans we had but we will have a bigger celebration when everything gets back to normal. We didn't ignore it though! </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rob brought home roses. They weren't from a florist as those businesses are closed for now but he did find some decent ones at the supermarket which would have to do for now.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monica didn't want a cake as we had been eating cake all week (the lamb cake). Monica baked an apple pie and we put a birthday candle in it and Rob sang his best version of "Happy Birthday". </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Later that evening, we did another Zoom session with Monica's sister and brother-in-law and the kids joined in to sing "Happy Birthday" again! </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Weekends are quiet and we miss estate saling a lot but life will eventually return to normal. For now, we have our garden which is starting to come to life.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first weekend of the year found us with two sales on our list and that was fine. The end of the year was slow and we were anxious to go to estate sales again! The first one looked very promising so we got an early start to get an advantageous position in line!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were at the first sale over an hour early but there were plenty of people there before us. The sale was run by a tag sale company we really like but whose sales we don't often go but only because they don't often have sales with a lot of older items. This was an exception. It looked like there were some old salt and pepper shakers here and a few Christmas things and that was enough to make this our priority sale of the day. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A very old air conditioner in a very purple room. We didn't get anything in this room but we did find several good things in this house including some salt and pepper shakers, a few Christmas things and several other things. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After getting some breakfast, we went to our second and final sale of the day which was run by another tag sale company very familiar to us and who have had some great sales over the years. This one was described as having "vintage furniture throughout" and we were here more to view the furniture than to buy anything.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This vintage entertainment / bar unit was amazing! It was already sold but we got a picture before it left the house. We have one of these but not exactly like this.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also saw this amazing telephone table. We already have one so we did not buy it though we did think about it.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Check out this amazing basement bar...and the great bar stools! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A mounted pencil sharpener in the basement is a great sign that we'll see some great things in the house which we did even if we didn't bring much home. At the sale, we found a few magazines and a few pamphlets but we had a great time looking at the furniture. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Everything was ours to choose. A little over half of what you see was vintage and at 25 cents apiece, we took everything that was vintage. Most of what we got here was Christmas but we also found a great vintage vase and that came home with us too! </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our sale on Sunday was run by one of our favorite tag sale companies. We go to most of their sales (at least the ones that fall on the weekends) because we always find something of interest. This was described as the "entire contents of home of a woman whose husband was an airline pilot who brought very strange and interesting things from around the world". We would see.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, there were only five people ahead of us. We knew we would be inside as soon as the doors opened.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The old refrigerator in the basement was cool! </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Christmas falling on a Wednesday (and therefore New Year's Day, as well), there was only one weekend left in 2019 and there are rarely good sales that last weekend. Spoiler alert...this year was no different. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We always start Christmas Eve at Monica's sister's house where we have dinner and then the kids get to open some early Christmas gifts. They are of that age where money is what they want so they can pick out their own gifts.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then go to Monica's dad's house for our annual Christmas Eve visit from Santa. Monica's dad prefers to wait at his house rather than come out for dinner so we bring dinner to him. Monica's dad had two Christmas trees. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Santa has been coming to Monica's dad's house since she was a little kid and that tradition continues on. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Santa leaves, he does so with his sirens blaring! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas had arrived and Sweety was in the Christmas spirit! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visions of sugarplums danced in Kitty's head! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas day was spent at Monica's sister's house where Lenny and Monica's sister shared the cooking duties and Monica's dad watched over them. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made to pick up some of the newer Christmas decorations during the season like these solar bobbers. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also got this Abominable Snowman Pop Up! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although we didn't have any sales the weekend between Christmas and New Year's Day, we did make a trip to the Wantagh 5 & 10. We read that it was closing after more than sixty years in business. It said it would close in the next few days but didn't list a specific date. Unfortunately, we were too late. It was closed which was sad. There aren't many of these stores left. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> New Year's Eve is always at Monica's sister's house and we were ready to welcome 2020! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were well stocked with noisemakers and party hats!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our good luck lemon pigs were ready! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids had fun with the New Year's poppers!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweety celebrated New Year's Eve!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, of course, we celebrated New Year's Eve together and looked forward to a brand new year filler with love and adventures together! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third weekend in December only provided us with one sale of interest. Estate sales dwindle in number as Christmas and New Year's Day approaches so this sale might just be our last sale of 2019. Before the weekend even approached, we bought one thing on line which is something we rarely do but this was on Facebook marketplace and it was in our town so pickup would be easy. Here's what we found:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A great vintage creepy Santa! </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, for the sale. It was listed as a cleanout with mid-century novelties and it had a great story. The homeowner's dad owned a dime store in the 1950's and we couldn't wait to see what might lie inside. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evidently, there were a lot of people who couldn't wait to see what was inside. We were here over an hour earlier than the start time and we wound up with these numbers. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a wait, we got inside. The sale was run by some fellow salers who we know and chat with before sales. There were some cool dime store novelties in their original packages but the prices, though fair, were not in line with our level of interest.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were lots of little things spread around the basement including several pennants but they had been picked through by those getting inside first and we did not find any keepers.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a cool basement bar. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of shelves and lots of areas to search but, in the end, it was records that we bought. Lots of records and a few other things came home with us. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After getting some breakfast, we took our annual trip to Hicks Nurseries which transforms itself into a Christmas themed wonderland every December. We used to go with our families when we were kids and we have been making this trip together for years. Hicks has been around since 1853! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entrance told us that they were ready for us.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of poinsettias!</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Santa is in! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We waited on line for an hour to meet Santa and it was worth the wait! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids got ready for the Christmas band to play. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And away they played! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were lots of Christmas villages on display including this snow village.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The snow village had a Dairy Queen and a candy shop.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It had a cool diner too! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A closer view of the Christmas city</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Santa and his reindeer were flying around! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever</b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y year, Hicks has an interactive display and it is different every year. This year, it was Cookies for Santa.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every display is animated. There were moving polar bears, penguins and deer. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two more of the animated displays. Our visit here is always fun! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Herman's Hermits records. We actually have both of these already but we got them both autographed by Peter Noone so now we have two more records for him to autograph the next time we see him! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two Fisher Price people, a vintage handheld game, a pick from the 1964-1964 New York World's Fair and a Pan Am cocktail stirrer<br /><br />It was a fun weekend and just a few days before Christmas! We have been in that Christmas spirit all month and the season is always merrier when spent together! </b></div>
Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-78621008218757218552020-04-02T20:49:00.000-04:002020-04-02T20:49:11.784-04:00Flashback - The Second Week Of December, 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Staying indoors still remains what the smart kids are doing now and it is the best way to beat the Coronavirus epidemic. Estate sales are out for the immediate future. This continues to be an opportunity to share our adventures from the six month period when our blog was on temporary hiatus. This post will recap the second week of December, 2019.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second week in December brought us another three day weekend as we looked to use our remaining vacation days. Friday became the start of our weekend. We had one sale on our radar for Friday and there was every possibility that it would be a good one. We got up early and set our course for the 35 minute drive to our destination. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This first sale was listed having vintage toys, books and magazines amongst the items up for grabs. There was aso a few Christmas items in the pictures supporting the ad. The sale was run by a well followed tag sale company whose sales we have gone to for years.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although we were here an hour early and it was a Friday, we were nowhere near the front of the line.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a little disappointing because Rob was interested in these old science fiction magazines that were in the ad's photos.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>With these two numbers belonging to us, there was little chance of seeing those magazines.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It was Red Ryder BB gun! We did not buy it. We did not want Rob to shoot his eye out! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The basement was the place to be. There were books and magazines galore. There were even a few science fiction magazines down here but the only ones left behind were the newer ones. We even saw a box of old Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines go past us. Rob would have jumped at the chance to buy them. He loved this magazine as a kid and still has some but he always dreams of finding them. It would not be today. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There were toy military items too. These items were not for us but we did find some records and a few other things so we did not leave empty-handed. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We spent a good amount of time at Monica's childhood home and, as he wishes to do some weeks, he enlisted us to go through some things and take them home for us. Pictures to follow.<br /><br />We had plenty of time on Sunday to look at our new stuff. Here is what we got at the sales:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Two cut out promo records. One is a Mouseketeer record (from Wheaties in 1956) and the other was a giveaway from Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry (from 1979)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Two of the pages in the catalog. The 30 inch "Illuminated Standing Santa Claus" (top right on the first page was selling for $4.25. The 16 inch x 15 inch "Santa Face wall decoration (middle left on the second page) was selling for $1.45 for two dozen! The prices are in the back of the catalog. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Another page from the catalog. That plastic Santa came in three inch, four inch and five inch versions but the five inch version is out of stock. The other two versions could be yours for 80 cents per dozen. Those plastic reindeer were also available for 80 cents per dozen. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>As we mentioned, we also brought home some things from Monica's dad and here they are:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>...and this is the star. It was the one on top of Monica's family Christmas tree when she was a child. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We added </span></b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">lots of Christmas stuff that weekend and it was a perfect time in keeping with the spirit of the season. We got our Christmas cards made (we took the picture the prior weekend) and we prepared them for the mail. It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas! </b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-44323687790442690852020-03-31T20:17:00.000-04:002020-03-31T20:17:33.289-04:00Flashback - The First Week Of December, 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we continue to remain indoors as much as possible during the Coronavirus outbreak in New York, we will continue to catch up on our adventures during the six month period that our blog was on hiatus. This post covers the first week of December, 2019. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first weekend in December was a three day weekend as we both took vacation days. We had several three day weekends to create in December with our remaining vacation days. On this first Friday in December, we found one sale of interest and that would be our first event of the three day weekend.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a Friday. We were here 45 minutes early and this is what greeted us.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">#32 and #33. Those were our numbers. Estate sales are gathering more and more followers and they are being followed by more and more resellers who are off from work. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a bit of a wait and we could have sat down on the porch but we stood on line. The sale was run by a company that we did not know (and who we believe are full-time auctioneers and run these sales occasionally). The sale was described as a "collector's estate sale" and we saw several things of interest though Rob had one main target. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was lots of Christmas stuff upstairs but only a few things that were of interest to us. Much of it was newer Christmas things.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were lots of bobble heads upstairs and lots of spaces where bobble heads used to be. We suspect that several were taken before we even got upstairs. There were none of interest to us. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were some cool things atop the dresser but the price tags on them were higher than we were willing to pay. We did find some good things at this sale and the people running it were very nice and ran a really nice sale. We hope to see them run more of these. When we left, it was lots of vintage greeting cards, some Christmas things and a few other things including the one thing Rob targeted in the ad's pictures...a 1940's </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ceramic clown cookie jar. More on this later. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Friday night, we went to our town's Old Fashioned Christmas event which always occurs on the second Friday after Thanksgiving and is always a night of family fun! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first stop was the Conklin House. The house has been in this location since 1871 though it had around decades earlier in another location in town. The house is now a historic landmark owned by the town and it houses many historic artifacts. On this night every year, there are free tours and free cookies and apple cider! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a small wait to get in but we were inside in a few minutes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's an interesting house.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marissa decorated this tree as a volunteer at her school.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We're all smiling because we've all had free cookies! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The barn out back is decorated for Christmas, too! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One look inside the barn.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another look inside the barn. It is beautiful! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the restaurants and shops decorate for Christmas. This one always has a Santa coming down from the roof! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A look at the town</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The village meat market always grills on this night and Rob and Lenny always get a bratwurst. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive in town! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, of course, they were jolly! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beautiful horse leading the sleigh.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Town of Babylon History Museum at Old Town Hall always has a great train display at this time of year and we always see it on this night. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's moving trains and lots of structures associated with this area including Bohack which was Monica's favorite supermarket when she was growing up. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another view of the train layout. There are many interactive pieces which you can see on the displays in the foreground.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A replica of the building we were in!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A replica of the Johnny All-Weather Drive-In which is long gone. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An old style McDonald's. There were so many great displays here which we could have posted but we just chose a few. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An old wooden Bohack crate. We actually have two of these! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's an old jail downstairs and we were locked up! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So was Lenny! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Santa rode off as he has a very busy month ahead of him! </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This annual night in town is always a great start to the Christmas season! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We didn't have any sales on Saturday or Sunday but we had some time to look at what we found on Friday and this is what we saw:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Vintage Mother's Day cards</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Vintage Christmas cards</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Some vintage pictures with Santa</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A 1940's Pan American Art ceramic clown cookie jar. Rob's grandmother had this cookie jar when he was growing up (and his grandmother lived next door to him). He saw it every day back then. When his grandmother passed away, it could not be found. Everyone assumed that it had broken and his grandmother threw it away. A few years ago, we found one and it came home with us so it would not have been a tragedy if we didn't get another one but...it was nice getting another one! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you look at the top shelf of the kitchen divider shelf behind my grandmother, you can see her clown cookie jar. This picture was taken in 1963. </b></span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-37970364195495892712020-03-26T21:02:00.005-04:002020-03-26T21:02:42.312-04:00Flashback - The Last Two Weeks Of November, 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we continue the practice of social distancing in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, we have plenty of time to catch up on the period not covered during our six month hiatus from blogging. On to the next flashback post...the last two weeks of November, 2019.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The weekend before Thanksgiving, the fourth weekend in November would be a busy one. Although we had only one sale on our list for Saturday, we had a concert to attend in New York City that night so it would be a very full day. The sale on our list looked really good. It was being run by one of the oldest and most prolific of the tag sale companies in our area. They don't always run the types of sales that hold our interest but this would be one of them. The sale was advertised as "Grandma's collectible house" and the pictures showed lots of vintage Christmas, vintage salt and pepper shakers, vintage trains and vintage toys. It looked like it would be popular and we knew exactly how to get here because it was in Rob's hometown. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sale began at 10am and we got there just after 7am to get an early number. Even almost three hours early, we were not first but having these numbers should get us in the door at the start. We went out for breakfast, numbers in hand, and came back to wait for 10am.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This area was our primary target. Lots of vintage Christmas but, among the six people ahead of us, we knew that four of them (two groups of two) would be after the same things. Two are resellers and we suspect that the other two might do some selling, too. When the doors opened, three of the four competitors and Rob went right to this area. It was a civil frenzy of arms with all four of them focused on the prizes in front of them but all four were respectful. There is no need to start a war! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our other area of interest was the kitchen which had lots of vintage salt and pepper shakers. Monica targeted this room at the start as did one of our competitors. It's fair to say that all six of us did pretty well. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The kitchen had some great old cabinets but aside from this room and the living room filled with Christmas, there was nothing to see. We left with lots of Christmas, lots of salt and pepper shakers and a few other things. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After we got home from the sale, we relaxed for a very short while and then took the train to New York City where our concert would be. We don't take subways; choosing instead to walk around the city and enjoy it. It wasn't a sunny day but we enjoyed the walk. This is a view of the Flatiron Building as we made our way from midtown to downtown. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Without a plan in mind, we just walked around until we found something that appealed to us and we choose one of the many dumpling houses in the area. They were delicious! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Inside Otto's Shrunken Head, we're surrounded by lots of tropical visual delights and the music, on any given night, could be exotic, rockabilly or punk. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We each had a tiki drink. We actually shared both of them. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After saying goodbye to Otto's Shrunken Head, we made the twenty minute walk to Le Poisson Rouge (in Greenwich Village) and it was soon time for the opening band, The Bellwether Syndicate, of whose music we were unfamiliar but really liked. It was fronted by William Faith who also plays bass in The March Violets and guitar in Faith And The Muse. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In between bands, we walked around and Monica found an appropriate throne for herself.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The headliner was Clan Of Xymox which is the band we came to see. They have been around since the 1980's and they were great! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After the show, on our way out, we ran into William Faith who graciously posed for a picture with Rob. No, Rob didn't shrink. William Faith is about 6'5" tall. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>On Sunday, we had a chance to look at our Saturday finds and this is what was there:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A vintage license plate holder and a button sold at Holden's Stationery store. Most are mementos from Rob's hometown. Holden's Stationery was an old favorite stationery store from Rob's childhood where he bought many a comic book, monster magazine and candy. As you walked in, everything smelled like wood and cigars. The floors were wood, the magazine racks were wood and the counter was wood. Just about everything inside was wood and the smell of wood was only cut by the smell of the cigars that Old Man Holden would smoke all day. He was a really nice man and would always let the kids look through the magazines for as long as they liked because he knew they would buy some before leaving. The store has been gone for many years but the great memories of the place remain. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The following Thursday was Thanksgiving and we split our time between our families after watching The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on television, of course!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We brought celery with spready cheese as an appetizer. This was always there as an appetizer at all the holidays in Rob's house growing up and they were a big hit today! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We went to Monica's sister and brother-in-law's house for dessert where we celebrated with Monica's brother-in-law, Monica's dad, Monica's sister and Monica's brother (and the kids who missed out on this photo)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We were back at Valerie's sister's house the next day for Thanksgiving Day leftovers where we, once again, had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and, of course, cranberry sauce served in its natural can-shaped form! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So did we! It was a great two weeks together and we had three more days off after Thanksgiving to spend together (though there were no sales). We'll be back in a few days to catch up with some more! </b></span></div>
Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-60961723383562730302020-03-24T21:50:00.000-04:002020-03-24T21:50:10.972-04:00Flashback - The First Three Weeks Of November, 2019<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks like we will have plenty of time for flashback posts that cover the six months that our blog went on hiatus. The Coronavirus is in full swing in New York and we are now at the country's epicenter with over 25,000 confirmed cases in the state (over 50% of the entire national total). We didn't go to any estate sales this past weekend (incredibly, there were some sales!) nor will we go to any for the foreseeable future. Monica's workplace has shut down for the next four weeks. Rob is still working. We are social distancing and we are taking all possible precautions. We'll get through this. We'll all get through this in time if we take the right precautions. Be safe out there and enjoy this flashback post from this past November. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first weekend in November was a three day weekend as we took the first Friday of the month as a vacation day. There were no sales of interest but it was Rob's grandmother's birthday. She would have been 108 years old. Rob was very close to his grandmother as she lived next door to his family his entire childhood. We decided to visit the cemetery where his grandparents and his great uncle and aunt rest since the weather was nice and it was Grandma's birthday.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob never got to know his grandfather. He served in World War II. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob's grandmother shared the same headstone as his grandfather. Her statistics were on the back of the headstone and, as we guess was common in veteran's cemeteries at one time, her last name is not there. She is his grandfather's "wife". Rob saw his grandmother every day when he was growing up and he has a million great memories of her during those days. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob's great uncle and great aunt rest in the same cemetery. Rob's great uncle also served in World War II. He passed away before Rob was born.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob's great aunt had her own headstone next to that of his great uncle. She, too, is listed as "wife". Aunt Rose visited every other week and was also a big part of Rob's great childhood memories. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we got home, this little guy was roaming around on our driveway. These Italian wall lizards have been multiplying Long Island since some were released from a pet store in 1966. They have been making their way eastward ever since. This is the first year we have seen them and we had four sightings this year. They are very beneficial to the garden and add a bit of exoticism to our yard. We look forward to seeing them come back every year! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Saturday, we only had one sale on our list and that was okay because we had plans to go out to Uncle Bobby's house. Monica's sister and brother-in-law needed to grab a few things from there and we were going for the ride. First, the sale...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we got to Monica's sister's house to get ready for the trip out east, we were joined by this very low helicopter which seemed to be watching something very closely. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It stayed around for about twenty minutes hovering over a fairly small area. We found out a few days later that the helicopter was looking at the railroad tracks to make sure that there was no damage and no obstructions on the tracks. Someone must have seen something.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent a few hours at Uncle Bobby's house without any great purpose but it felt good to be out there. It always does. This is the back view of the main house on the property.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When deer come to visit, we most often see them in this area which was all clear early on. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of hours later, the deer appeared in the side yard. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather was still nice and everything was still green though, as November rolled on, we wouldn't expect this to last much longer. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all stopped to get dinner when we left before adjourning to our own homes to relax. Over the course of the weekend, we did get to look over what we found at the church sale and this is what we saw:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following Tuesday was Election Day and, of course, we voted. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second weekend was also a three-day weekend because of Veterans Day but there were so few sales and none that provided us with any reason to make the trip. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did go to a local Open House as we like to do if the house seems interesting. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This picture came out pretty dark but you can see the great metallic backsplash and the great vintage exhaust fan in this kitchen. The wooden cabinets were vintage, too. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The upstairs was a separate apartment with a stove in the wall, old wooden cabinets and an old radiator. It was a fun house. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it was a three day weekend, we went out with Monica's sister, brother-in law and the kids. Lenny and I were forced to pose for Monica's camera! It may not have been a weekend packed with sales but we still had lots of fun! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the third weekend in November came, we finally had some sales! There were only two but that sounded great to us! Both were on Saturday and we got a nice early start.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first sale was listed as a "vintage moving blowout sale" with lots of old stuff pictured in the ad. There was a mention of Christmas but we didn't see any in the pictures so we would have to see. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of clutter means lots of digging! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The basement had this great bar and it was in the boxes near the bar. Unfortunately, aside from vintage glass ornaments of which we have too many, there was not much in the Christmas category here for us. We found two Christmas things but left the glass ornaments behind.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a cool old television! What cool chairs! What a cool floor! We left with none of these but did go home with the two Christmas things, some records, some vintage ceramic turkeys and a soup bowl.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our second sale was "an eclectic mix of vintage collectibles". We were hoping for the best. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a decent amount of things in that basement but the star of the show was the bar! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at that cool pattern on the bar! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A look at the very cool bar stools for the basement bar. This is also a look at the only thing we took home from this sale...a Santa Gurley candle. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although we didn't find much, we enjoyed seeing the bar and we enjoyed seeing the horse and carriage decoration on the lawn. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we got home, we took a look at what we found and this is what we saw:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Enchanted Tiki Room record and some more Hawaiian records</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Campbell's soup bowl. It isn't exactly vintage (1980's) but Monica's family had three of these and Monica's dad gave one each to Monica's sister, Monica's brother and Monica. We had one. Now we have two! Soup for two from now on! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ceramic turkeys made in Japan. A pair of salt and pepper shakers, a sugar bowl and a creamer. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A vintage plastic snowman, a ceramic reindeer (marked Japan) and a Santa Gurley candle. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ended the week with both our anniversary and Rob's birthday. Beautiful roses for a beautiful girl.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We had our anniversary dinner at our favorite sushi restaurant. It may not be vintage but we really love sushi! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Rob's birthday, we went for lunch at the Sweet Shop, a birthday traditional for him. It has been around since 1925 and it is in Rob's hometown. He used to go here with his grandmother and his parents when he was a kid. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of birthday cake, Rob always requests birthday donuts from House Of Donuts which has been in his hometown since the 1970's and is still run by the same owner. As Rob always says, they have the best jelly crullers in the world. Everyone else is playing for second place! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a great start to November and there was so much of November left! We'll catch up with you later! </span></b></div>
Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-82111429528529768022020-03-20T23:42:00.001-04:002020-03-21T00:12:08.700-04:00Flashback - The Last Half Of October, 2019 - Some Saling, Stiff Little Fingers and Halloween<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We took a six month hiatus on our blog and we are trying to fill in the gaps via flashback posts. This post recaps the second half of October, 2019</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the third weekend of October, there were just no sales of interest at all. The whole year seemed to have fewer good sales than in recent years. We expect a two month drop-off in sales starting in December but we expected to, at the very least find a sale or two, every weekend in October. Not this week. All we found was a church sale at a church in the next town. Those sales nowadays are hit or miss but it was the only game in town and so we went. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was nothing laid out outside but they had some things in the rectory which turned out to be of no interest to us. We hoped that the church's thrift shop might save the day and it did...sort of. There was nothing great but we didn't walk away empty-handed. We left with some records and at a quarter a piece, our wallets did not seem any lighter.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had lots of Saturday left so we visited Monica's dad which we do most Saturdays. He gets interested in getting rid of stuff relatively often and insisted that we go through some stuff and take some things home. We did. Here is what came home with us:</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The back had this season's greetings message from the service station... </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and a 1956 calendar! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas items! An inflatable reindeer, two bottle brush wreaths, a pair of Christmas tree salt and pepper shakers (marked Japan) and a creepy Santa (marked Japan). We think Monica's dad likes giving these things to us even more than we like accepting them! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday, we had a trip planned for Brooklyn for a concert. We took off on both Tuesday and Wednesday (the second day to sleep a little later as we knew we would get home late). We typically don't consider concerts in Brooklyn because trains are tough since changes of train are necessary. The headliner is one of Rob's favorite bands who last saw in the early 1980's and when the tickets went on sale, he took the philosophy of buying now and figuring it all out later. We decided to drive in (after getting advice from a friend who was at the same venue two weeks earlier). Road trip! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The concert had a dining room that offered Polish food like pierogies and kielbasa. The next time that we go to The Warsaw, Monica wants to give these a try. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were here plenty early (by design) and knew we would be right up front for the show! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a going to be a great double bill because the opening band was Avengers, a San Francisco based band that has been around since 1977. They have a legitimate pedigree. They were the opening band in January, 1978, when Sex Pistols played their last show with Johnny Rotten as their frontman. He walked off stage that night vowing never to return (he did in 1996 for a reunion tour). This is an early picture of the band with, left to right, Penelope Houston, Danny Furious (later in Joan Jett and The Blackhearts), Greg Ingraham and Jimmy Wilsey (later in Chris Isaak's band. He was the one who played slide guitar on Isaak's famous "Wicked Game"). </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Avengers! Original members Greg and Penelope to the left. Hector Penalosa fon bass (original member of The Zeros, a great punk band from Chula Vista, California that formed in 1976). We were right up front along the rail set up five feet from the stage. They were incredibly loud (our ears were ringing) but incredibly great! This was our first time seeing them.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The headliner was Northern Ireland's greatest punk band, Stiff Little Fingers, who have been around since 1977. The original lineup is pictured here. Left to right, Henry Cluney, Jake Burns, Brian Faloon and Ali McMordie. Rob saw them in the early 80's but not since then and they remain one of his favorite bands of all time. If you've never heard of the, think Irish version of The Clash. Only Jake and Ali remain in the band. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stiff Little Fingers today with Jake on lead vocals and guitar and Ali McMordie on bass. They were amazing (and just as loud as Avengers)! It was a great show and driving to the show turned out to be a great idea. We parked just tow blocks from the venue and there were no parking meters. It took us just over an hour to get home by car. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The sale grew a good crowd and the tag sale company's owner, Ron, waved hello for the picture. </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We found a variety of interesting things here including some books, a vintage chip and dip bowl and several other things. It was a good start to our saling day. </b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-13195516837285392842020-03-18T20:10:00.000-04:002020-03-20T18:52:50.026-04:00The Last New York Concert (For Now) And Some Saling The Second Weekend In March<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The world has gotten a little scary over the last week. Like other parts of the country (actually, all fifty states now), the coronavirus and its disruption of life as we know it, has hit New York. New York didn't have its first confirmed case until March 1st. Today, March 18th, we have 2,480 confirmed cases and twelve deaths statewide. Our county reported its first case just nine days ago. We now have 116 confirmed cases. Large gatherings of people are not only not recommended but dangerous...and now against the law. All concerts and sporting events have been postponed indefinitely. Restaurants and bars are now closed though drive through, curbside and pick up orders are still allowed (though many restaurants are ill equipped to adjust to this and have decided to suspend their operations until such time as it is deemed safe to reopen to dine in). This is New York to which we refer but this is the same story across most of the country. We will all get through this if we use our heads.<br /><br />All of these changes did not go into effect until the last few days and we had concert tickets for Thursday, March 12th in Brooklyn; a night that would turn out to be the last night of concerts in New York City for the foreseeable future.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We didn't see a show at Rough Trade which is three blocks away from the Music Hall of Williamsburgh but this is where we parked. The ban on gatherings of 500+ people was to go into effect the next night. Rough Trade holds 250 people but they were going to be limited to 50% capacity under the new restriction. They also have a record store here so we went inside. The employees didn't know what their plans were yet as the new law was just announced a few hours earlier. Rob bought a couple of shirts and we left to begin our walk to our concert. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wire, back in 1977 or 1978. Graham, Colin and Robert (left to right) are still in the band. Bruce, far right, left the band a few years ago and was replaced by Matthew Simms on guitar. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of having an opening band on this tour, a different member of the band serves as DJ before the band play. Tonight, it was lead singer, Colin Newman. Rob asked him to pose for a picture and Colin obliged. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matthew's copy of the playlist was right in front of us as we were right up front and leaned on the stage all night (covered arms, not hands).</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>On Saturday, we had one estate sale on our list. It was a "Victorian estate sale covering the "entire house". The company listed as running the sale was one of which we had never heard. We didn't see anything old but we did see pictures of records; many less common ones from the 1980's. That was our target. We didn't think it would be that popular but, even arriving 30 minutes early, we were #20 and #21. We were also surprised to see so many familiar faces of other salers who usually seek more vintage items and usually play further to the west (this sale was seven miles to our east and we live further to the east than most of the regulars we run into (we cover a wider territory than most). Despite being further back in the line, we were sent in at the same time as everyone else because the sale was run by two guys who typically don't list a company name. They run sales about once every six weeks and they are usually good. They almost always let everyone in at once.<br /><br />Rob stayed up where the records were but had to wait behind other people who got to them first. There are a lot of record resellers / collectors out there and many were here. A few that Rob wanted were gone which puzzled him because he knew that no one other than him knew who The Plastics were and that one was in an ad picture. We think that some of the collectors just grabbed as many records as they could or did some research before going to the sale. This particular record could fetch upwards of $20 and that was going to yield them a profit. Rob did manage to find 24 records of interest so that was our first find.</b></span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-18875510447820993672020-03-16T21:40:00.000-04:002020-03-16T21:40:26.966-04:00Flashback - The First Half Of October, 2019 - Mill Neck, Birthdays And A Few Sales<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>As you may have noticed, we took a six month hiatus from our blog and we are now catching up flashback style. Our first real time post in awhile was posted the other day and we will detail our adventures this past weekend in a few days. For now, it is another flashback...The first half of October, 2019.<br /><br />For the first weekend in October, we had four sales on our list; two on Saturday and two on Sunday. Our first sale on Saturday was described as "Vintage Christmas and Partial House Sale" The company running it was one we never saw before. The pictures supporting the ad were primarily of Christmas items but most looked new. We did see three older things of interest and so we set our sights on this sale first.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The sale, for the most part, was a garage sale. Many of the items were displayed on long tables along the driveway and in the garage. There were a few items in a very isolated part of the house. We showed up early and they let us come right up. It was run by the family but they sell items regularly and we assume the name they chose might be the name of their online shop. We didn't see the three items we noticed in the pictures which led us to believe that other shoppers were here even earlier. We did, however, find a few Christmas things of interest to take home and we did. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There were some old books here and a few other things but not a lot. We did leave with some vintage greeting cards, a poster and a few other things. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>On Sunday, we had two more sales and the first one was sponsored by a tag sale company we really like but who only runs a few sales a year now. We see the owners of the company more often as patrons of other sales than we do of hosts of their own sales. It was described as "an estate sales clean out sale" and the readers of the ad were told that there would be "vintage items" and "1960's toys" and we were told to "bring a flashlight for the basement". Although we saw nothing in the few pictures in the ad, the description was enough to draw us in.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We got there early but not early enough to get better numbers than #10 and #11. Nonetheless, these numbers were good enough to get us in immediately upon its start. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The basement was as described and a flashlight was a really good thing to have down there. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We love these overhead metal shelves. We do expect to get one next day when we are ready for the,. Although neither this nor the bread box came home with us, we did find some books and a 1960's Domino football player cinnamon holder.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of vintage Christmas stuff! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the second weekend of the month arrived, we had two birthdays to celebrate. Monica's brother-in-law and Monica's brother have birthdays a day apart.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The second weekend of October was a three day weekend for us but not a saling weekend. We took a vacation day of Friday but there were no worthwhile sales at all. We did go to a new thrift shop that opened nearby just to see what might be inside. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't the typical church thrift shop. It was a private thrift shop. There were plenty of things inside and the shelves were packed. We didn't find too much but we did find a couple of things that were cool. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We brought home a bunch of slides that were taken at New York Met games in 1986. Some pictures had been developed of those slides and the owner let us have those for free.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We also found these three Christmas cards that were taken of the same family, in different years, of the kids meeting Santa.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the insides of those pictures. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The first thing we always do is see the Pickle People. They sell all kinds of pickles in containers and separately on sticks. We always pickles on sticks!</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful Mill Neck Manor</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of photos we take every year and this group shot at the pavilion is one of them.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We enjoy spending time here each year</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Big Rock! Peter, Marissa and Monica on the rock! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>On Sunday, we went to Uncle Bobby's property to do a little more cleaning and exploring the property. The property will be sold at some point in the future. The house in this picture is where Uncle Bobby lived. He built it with his father. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The main house which was built in 1930. Uncle Bobby had been renting this house every summer for more than thirty years. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The long look up the driveway from the front house to the back of the property (three acres)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There was a very large spider web on the big tree in front of the main house...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>...with a very large and very scary owner. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We did some exploring in Uncle Bobby's basement</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We have been down here many times before but the mounted pencil sharpener always reminded us that there would be more surprises in store for us. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lenny enjoyed searching through all the tools</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There were lots of things to hold Lenny's interest</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Richard found this old Esso sign</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monica had fun searching through the attic again.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Richard leaving through the only way out of the attic</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This area, to the side of Uncle Bobby's house, is where we often see deer but there were none to see that day. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter's birthday cake. The characters on the cake are characters that Peter actually created on his computer.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lighting made the singing of Happy Birthday a spooky event. Do you know what made it even spookier? Our actual singing! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kitty, reluctantly, celebrated, too!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The workweek passed and we got to bed early on Friday night and set the alarm for 5:30am to get a jump on Saturday's sales. We showered and hit the road to get to our first sale early.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Our first sale was an easy choice. The ad said that they were downsizing after 54 years and "vintage Christmas" and "vintage toys" were identified in the ad. The pictures supported the claim. We weren't sure who would be running this sale. It was not listed as a tag sale company and every indication pointed towards a well organized privately run sale. That would be good. These sales are not as well advertised and not as well attended which translates to less competition for us. We did see the sale listed in more than one place but not in the key site so we were hopeful. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We got there at 6:50am only to find that we were #20 and #21 and this was over two hours before the sale started! As we drove near the sale, we saw lots of signage and the fact that we were so deep in the line told us that we were not dealing with amateurs. Oh well! With our places secured, we went for breakfast and returned long before the sale began. In talking to a number of regulars we knew, it was determined that the folks running the sale were vendors at the local flea market and knew their stuff. Hopefully, they wouldn't be too expensive and we would get a good shot at the things we wanted.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We weren't among the first group let inside but we only had to wait fifteen minutes before getting inside. We quickly went to the basement to see if the Christmas stuff was down there. It wasn't but we grabbed a few quick things and made our way upstairs where we found the Christmas and it looked untouched. We went through several boxes and found some great Christmas things.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More Christmas. A ceramic music box Santa, a blow mold Santa sleigh, three knee huggers and a electric Christmas candle in its box. All but the sleigh are marked Japan. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Before we even get to the last weekend in September, we had a midweek trip to New York City to see The B-52's, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Berlin. We took the day off from work (and the next day since in was an evening concert) and when into the city early to spend the day and take in the sights. We have lived within forty miles of Manhattan so we are no strangers to The Big Apple but we only go into the city a few times a year now. It never gets boring.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>St. Patrick's Cathedral. Back in 1888, it was the tallest building in New York City.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two more pictures in Central Park. We spent a couple of hours here before making our way to the south end of the park where the concert stage sits. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It had been a great day so far and we were ready for three fun bands to hit the stage. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>They were great and Terri Nunn even made her way into the audience during the show! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This bench, in front of the house, was very interesting. We imagine that this was sold, too! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It has been around since 1958 and we will have to stop and get a slice of pizza here one day. We couldn't on this day as we already had dinner plans. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>After a two hour drive because of intense traffic, we arrived at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center which resides on the campus of Montclair State University. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rob confused Yogi as much as much as he confused Rob. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There were so many great baseball artifacts here including these catcher's gloves from over the years. The museum housed many Yogi Berra items but also those of other baseball stars. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Authentic vintage stadium seats from the original Yankee Stadium</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Now, it was time to eat and, after a fifteen minute drive, we arrived at Lun Wah!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It has been around since 1974 and it is the real deal! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>As soon as you walk in, you know you are in the land of tiki! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Our booth! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An exotic drink for each of us</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monica looks happy! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A giant tiki smiles upon us</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It is a great place with great food, great drinks and great atmosphere! We will come back some day! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A pink sweater for Monica</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It was a very busy week and that is exactly how we like it! We did find some time to rest of Sunday and we were able to get our first tomato of the year! Of course, that's pretty late considering this was the end of September. This was the only one we got for the year. Although about fifty more grew, they never matured. We planted them about a month too late because we had a late spring. Oh well! There's always next year! </b></span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-75458533919287124772020-03-04T17:10:00.001-05:002020-03-04T17:10:07.447-05:00Flashback - The Second and Third Weekends In September, 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the calendar said it was September, there were few signs of the upcoming fall season at least not in our garden. The garden is a place we spend considerable time when we are at home. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've groomed our morning glories to run rampant around some garden poles. It's controlled chaos to keep them from overrunning the rest of the garden. It's a labor of love as is our estate saling. During the second week of September, we did some gardening and we had some estate sales. Well, really just one estate sale so we were hoping it would be a good one. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sale was run by a fairly new estate sale company whose sales we had not yet experienced. With "hoarder's paradise" in the description and some old pictures in the ad, now was the time to introduce ourselves. We got an early start, took the 35 minute drive to the sale and got ready for the opening. We were early enough to know that we would be in the first group let inside.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once inside, we saw that there were several floors and lots of old stuff. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were intrigued by the teapot at the back of this table but, in the end, we left without it. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the upstairs room was filled with dolls. No, that's Monica on the right! </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hundreds of dolls. They didn't come home with us but we did take a vintage stuffed Easter Bunny boy from this room and lots of other items from this house including some Christmas things, some hand puppets and more. It was a really good sale! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> With lunchtime rapidly approaching, we chose to go to My Hero. It is a hero delicatessen renowned for their heroes and has been around since 1970. If you ever drive by this place around lunchtime, the line is out the door. We were there when it opened at 10am and enjoyed a great lunch! </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The third weekend in September found us with four sales on our list for Saturday. We were hopeful and we decided to get a nice early start. The first sale began at 9am and we were determined to get there nice and early. Although there were no pictures in the ad, we suspected that "massive diggers and pickers sale" and "entire contents of a lifelong collector's home" would spark interest. It did with us. Add "Christmas", "postcards" and "baseball stuff" to the list of items described and we knew this was our primary target. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were here an hour early and amongst the first few to show up. We would definitely be in the first group to be allowed inside. We had a suspicion of who might be running this sale and, once inside, we found that we were right. This tag sale company remains low key but there sales are always amongst our favorites. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kitchen was small but old. The metals kitchen cabinets were great. It was on a table in this kitchen that the baseball items and the postcards were laid out but they were not our style. We didn't leave empty-handed. We found vintage grapes, some squeak toys and one reindeer. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sale #4 was of great interest to Monica. It wasn't the description "contents of home". It was the house itself. This house went on the market a few years ago and the pictures of the inside of the home showed a great vintage house with a great vintage kitchen, two great vintage bathrooms and an amazing attic! We would have loved to have walked through it during an open house but we never saw one and it was sold almost as quickly as it was listed, Now, we could see the inside of the house for ourselves! </b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-7237082888774463002020-03-03T18:05:00.000-05:002020-03-03T18:05:02.669-05:00Flashback - The End Of August, 2019 Through The First Weekend In September 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We continue of attempt to catch up on lost time with a post about the end of August, 2019 and the beginning of September, 2019. It was an odd summer for estate sales. This was the first year we could remember being this slow for the type of sales we like. As a matter of the fact, we had no sales of interest at all during the fourth weekend of August so we took advantage of the great weather and got outdoors.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of those things we like best is taking evening walks around the lake in our town. Us and the ducks.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The last weekend of August gave us one sale of interest and one opportunity, close to home, to hit a "garage sale day" in a neighborhood that boasted of eight garage sales over a three block span. We hoped to at least find something at one of the houses.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Our main sale was run by a tag sale company that we have known for years and with whom we have had some great success. This sale was described as having "unique collectibles" and "vintage baseball cards". Rob was very interested in the vintage baseball cards. There wasn't much to look at in the house. One room was filled with jewelry, one room was filled with baseball cards and there were a few rooms of miscellaneous items. The baseball cards were really good and Rob would have liked to take home all of them but we have to be reasonable. Rob picked out the ones he wanted most that also carried a small price tag. We found some Christmas things, too. We left happy.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the "garage sale day" was a bust. These were some of the worst garage sales of all time and we came home with nothing from these sales at all but Rob was happy with what he got earlier. Here is what we brought home:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Groovy 70's wallpaper! The house was fun to walk through but we didn't find too much for us. We did manage to find two vintage squeak toys in a crawl space and they came home with us. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sale #3 was another low profile, privately run sale without any pictures in the ad. What caught our eye was the description in the ad which included "records", "holiday decorations" and "antiques". While there were not a lot of pictures to take as most of the items were in the garage, we did pretty well at this sale. We came home with some Christmas things, a pair of records, some cookbooks and some salt and pepper shakers.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some cocktail stirrers, a Greyhound map, a vintage greeting card and two vintage cookbooks. The How Long cookbook is from 1924. The La Choy cookbook is from 1925. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Various vintage trading cards</b><br />
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-50463563808431967582020-03-01T19:01:00.000-05:002020-03-02T17:52:07.743-05:00We're Back - Flashback: The Third Weekend Of August, 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We're back! We've never actually been gone. We just haven't been on here. Sometimes life gets too busy to get to everything you want to do but the beginning of March feels like a good time to get back here and renew our story on here. We're excited to be back.<br /><br />We won't have any real adventures this weekend. Rob woke up around Thursday night with a rough stomach virus that kept him home from work on Friday (his first sick day in over five years). He didn't leave bed until 5pm on Friday except to get sick several times. He was back in bed at 9pm and slept until 7:30am the next morning. So...no sales for us this weekend. Better to take the time to mend! Our last post left off in the middle of August, 2019. We'll pick up the story from there.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third weekend in August was a three day weekend. We always try to make sure to have one extra day off every month by using vacation days when we can. This was that extra day. There were two sales of interest to us and both were to our east. We got a nice early start and headed eastward with hope that we would do well!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first sale on our list was run by a tag sale company that we like a lot and who mainly keep their sales to the weekends. A Friday sale is a bit of a rarity for them but we were available and so we were there. Despite getting there 45 minutes early, even on a Friday, we were about 25 people deep in the line. For the resellers, Fridays are not an issue. The pictures for the ad told us that there were a lot of old things inside. We just hoped that there would still be things of interest once we got inside.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first thing we saw was this great lounge chair. We would have liked to take it home but we didn't. This little sunroom also had plenty of records and some of those did come home with us.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a large attic with lots of boxes. That vintage jug that Monica is holding is one of the things we found. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The kitchen was old and very cool!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pattern of the kitchen floor was cool! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The washing machine and dryer were cool, too! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A closer view of the dials on the "clothes conditioner"</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ironing board folded out from a kitchen closet</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The remains of an old mounted pencil sharpener in the basement and that's always a good sign! The sale was a good start to the day and we did okay. Aside from the records and the jug, we also brought home a cookbook and some old postcards. On to Sale #2.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Modern Snack Bar has been around since the early 1950's and this sign has been there since 1956! </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The garage was the featured spot as the house did not have much inside and many of the rooms were off limits. The garage and driveway were pretty packed so that did not bother us at all. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This giant Santa face was still in its box and available to us. Yes, we got it! There were a number of buyers just there for those bar items and that was fine. We left with some Mets yearbooks, a Gil Hodges beer tray, some Howdy Doody buttons, a couple of beer coasters and, of course, the Santa decoration! The other sale was a bust. It was a garage sale with all new things. It was a quick stop.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This town that had both of the day's sales were in Rob's hometown and, as we so often do when in Rob's hometown, we ate at the Hicksville Sweet Shop. It has been around since 1925 and Rob used to go here with his grandmother and his parents when he was a kid. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Although there have been changes inside, the counter and the bar stools are still there to add to the charm and the food is just as good as it always was! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The bathroom was great! Not much has changed in here since the house was first built! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out the great pattern on the countertop! </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It was a busy weekend and a great weekend; a weekend spent together which always makes it great. We're glad to be back on the blog. We're catch up with you some more later this week! </b></span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-63203774541063701112019-08-29T21:10:00.000-04:002019-08-29T21:10:31.064-04:00The First Two Weeks Of August<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>With July behind us and summer moving much faster than we would like, we headed into August with hope that estate saling would pick up. For over a year, the number of sales that interest us has dwindled. We don't think there are fewer estate sales. We just see fewer of our type of estate sales. We've spoken to fellow salers and they say the same thing. We hope that we see more great sales in the future but, for now, we'll have to take what we can get. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>For the first weekend in August, there was only one sale of interest to us. It was the estate sale of Irv Gordon. Who is Irv Gordon, you ask? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Irv Gordon is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest mileage on one single vehicle. He drove his Volvo over 3.2 million miles! Now, we would be at his home.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The sale was run by a smaller tag sale company whom we have known for many years but have not seen in about two years. They don't advertise heavily so we usually don't know when they are having sales. The sale's ad described the contents as "items from 5 & 10 Store stored in the attic". Vintage toys and vintage games were listed amongst the items. That sounded good to us. We arrived before the opening of the sale but so did a lot of other people. When the sale began, they let everyone in at the same time.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The first thing we learned was that was no attic. Almost everything had been dragged outside or was stored in the garage. There were things inside the house but they were limited to the first floor. This old barbecue, in its box, caught our eyes and we almost bought it but it was not the type with a top piece and that is what would have sealed the deal for us.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The garage was where most of the digging was and there really was a lot of digging. We spent an hour in the garage alone.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This great old refrigerator was in that garage, too. Just as the ad stated, there were lots of items you would expect to find in an old 5 & 10 Store and that was fun. We found a lot of things to take home which we will share a little further down.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">...pin-up girls!</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We can put together a vintage clothesline! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Charlie's Hot Dogs began its hot dog business in 1963 as a hot dog pushcart and expanded to a hot dog truck as his popularity grew. His red onions were the stuff of legend. After a brief hiatus after Charlie passed away, his daughter reopened the business using the original recipe and now Charlie's hot dogs are, once again, available to a new generation of hot dog fans. His red onions are now available in supermarkets, too! The hot dogs and red onions were as great as we hoped and we will be back again! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">One Sunday, it was barbecue time at Monica's sister and brother-in-law's house. Lenny, is as legendary on the grill as Charlie is with his red onions!</b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-11217228152926721462019-08-05T21:31:00.000-04:002019-08-05T21:31:48.430-04:00The Week Began At Noone<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The workweek began with a continuation of the oppressive heat we experienced all weekend but it all ended on Tuesday. There was a big drop in the temperature and a great drop in the humidity. It was appreciated especially since we would be outdoors on Tuesday night. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our township has several free concerts each summer and we look forward to combing the list when it gets published each year. The lists of shows that interest us seems to become shorter each year. In recent years, the season's lineup has become dominated by cover bands and we just don't get that excited about seeing cover bands. What did excite us is that Peter Noone would be playing again or, more specifically, as billed, Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone. He has been playing free concerts every other year and this would be our fourth time seeing him. </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter even comes down off the stage and tells some great stories to the crowd during his performances. He is very funny.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After the show, Peter stuck around to meet his fans and he will sign whatever you bring. He did this tow years ago and we were not prepared then. We were this time. He signed this album "Peter Noone" "Herman" "2019".</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He signed this record for us, too! "Peter Noone". He is a really nice guy! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob bought this shirt (because you should try to support the artist) and he signed it, too! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Closer look at Peter's shirt signature. "Peter Noone 2019"</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't send for much in the mail so our mail is usually boring but not this week. Rob got two things this week so the mail was exciting! On Thursday, this tee shirt arrived from England, sent by Spizz Energi. Spizz has been making music since 1977 and the band has gone through many lineups and many names. This, Athletico Spizz 80, was their third and celebrates third 1980 album, Do A Runner. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to the shirt, Spizz sent a personalized GreenSpizz information card. As with the shirt we bought from Peter Noone, we bought it directly from the artist which is our policy wherever we can. When you love an artist's music and wish to wear their shirt, show the artist the love and seek out the artist first wherever possible.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> On Friday, these four cards arrived in the mail. Rob belongs to an online vintage baseball photos group and the administrator was getting rid of a lot of autographed baseball cards at a very low price. Rob grabbed all of the New York Mets autographed cards. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Saturday, it was time to go saling and there weren't many sales that appealed to us but there was one standout and then a second one a few blocks away. Those were our targets and we got an early enough start to be at the first sale before its doors opened. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The sale was run by one of our favorite tag sale companies and was described as a "packed house of accumulations back to the 1950's". That sounded pretty good to us and the pictures in the ad, though having nothing specific that we wanted, supported the ad's claim.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a great vintage sunroom on the side of the house that looked great from the outside. There was really nothing in there, though, and there was no access within the house to explore it. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If we had been on the inside, we would have seen that it had a great view of an old brick barbecue and a garden which probably were focal points at many outdoor barbecues in the 1950's and 1960's. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There were also two old garages that didn't have all that much inside. This view was through the back window of one of the garages. We had plenty of time to take these outdoor pictures because we did arrive early. That was only reason #1.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a great old, unspoiled, kitchen with great wooden cabinets. No press board for us. We'll take the real wooden cabinets please! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The basement was the best room in the house and where we found the best items for us. There was the mounted pencil sharpener! That's usually a good sign! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The basement had a great bar so you know that this house must have had great parties all year round! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The upstairs was not all that packed but there were some items to browse through on some tables and the bed had dozens of old posters. Rob found an early 1970's (Rob is pretty sure it is from 1973) that we brought home and will eventually frame.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After going home to relax for awhile, we, again, took Monica's sister out to dinner since Monica's brother-in-law and the kids were still in Florida for one more day. We went to Doc Lee Lau, a Chinese restaurant near us that has been around for a long time and, until a few years ago when they remodeled, was kept just as it looked when it opened. While the decor has changed, the quality of the food has not and this remains great old fashioned Chinese food. Monica's sister loved it! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Some New York Mets souvenirs: A picture of Ed Kranepool and Ron Swoboda (facsimile autographs), a picture of Ed Kranepool, Tug McGraw and Ralph Kiner, and an actual Ed Kranepool autograph.</b></span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-66505541576306902862019-08-02T20:37:00.003-04:002019-08-02T20:38:56.796-04:00Heat Wave! <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third weekend in July brought us the first wave of oppressive heat of the season. We have had a pretty hot July but this weekend brought it to a whole new level. It was a three day weekend for us since we chose Friday as a vacation day. It only hit 83 degrees on Friday, which is where it should be, but it was the dew point that made it tough. With dew points way above the 70 mark, the humidity put the real feel temperature into the mid-90's. Friday was the cool day. The thermometer reached 98 degrees both Saturday and Sunday and, with the humidity hanging like a blanket over our heads, the real feel temperatures neared 110 degrees. That didn't keep us inside. On Friday, we found one sale worth trying and off we went.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sale's ad had no pictures but was described as an estate sale with contents of home for sale. When we googled the address, we could see that it was an older home and that made it worth a shot. Most of the stuff was laid out on the lawn and the driveway and we spent more time there than inside the house. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There wasn't much in the house but we did like the looks of this old turquoise typewriter. It was a fairly quick stop but we were glad we came. We found some sports magazines, a baseball game, an Emergency! board game, a vintage tiki hat and a few other things.<br /><br />The remainder of Friday was fairly uneventful but it wasn't the end of our saling. We had one saved for Saturday and we were hoping to mimic Friday's success.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday's sale was run by one of our favorite tag sale companies and was described as a "dream sale with vintage and collectibles". It looked like it had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, we left a little later than planned and did not get there before its opening which probably cost us an opportunity to get the things that Rob wanted most at this sale. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were these. 1936 G-Men and Heroes Of Law cards. We got a couple of these from Uncle Bobby's house when we were cleaning it out. Rob is obsessed with old trading cards. We never even got a chance to see these in person. These were gone (this was a picture from the ad). </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rob also loves baseball books especially old ones. We never even got a glimpse of this 1948 book (this was also a picture from the ad).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Monica searched through every closet and, while intrigued by a few articles of clothing, she did not select any to bring home. We did find a few things. A newer baseball book, three yearbooks, a couple of records and a magazine came home with us. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">On Saturday night, we took Monica's sister out to a diner. Monica's brother-in-law and the kids went to Florida for a couple of weeks to visit Lenny's mom but Valerie couldn't get the time off from work so she ate some good diner food and came back to our house for a glass of wine and to watch music videos on our recently purchased smart TV. It was a fun night.<br /><br />On sunday, we spent the day indoors, for the most part, in an effort to avoid the heat. We did have a couple of errands outdoors and we also had to take advantage of National Ice Cream Day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Carvel had a buy one, get one free deal for national Ice Cream Day and, as you know, ice cream is the second best way to beat the heat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">The first is to have a Fonzie pillow case like Rob has. No matter which side faces up, it's always the cool side of the pillow! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Monica tweeted Henry Winkler. He agreed! See you next week! </span></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-51855550099824701912019-07-22T20:45:00.003-04:002019-07-22T20:45:30.380-04:00Fourth Of July, Parts I & II<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July arrived and our first week would be a short one. With Independence Day falling on a Thursday, it would make sense to take July 5th as a vacation day, wouldn't it? We did. We each had three very busy days at work before settling into four day holiday weekend mode. The Fourth of July would be different this year. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would still be a celebration of Uncle Sam. That part wasn't different. What was different is that we usually have a Fourth of July barbecue over Monica's sister's house but not this year. Monica's brother-in-law was in California and he is usually the official Fourth of July Barbecue chef. Monica's brother couldn't make it either so it was just the two of us, Monica's dad, Monica's sister and our nephew and niece. We were not going to have a barbecue but we had to eat, right? Monica's dad was in the mood for Chinese food so that is what we ordered. We know...not very American and we refused to take any pictures of the food though we ate it and enjoyed it. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although, we didn't have a barbecue, we had a great Fourth of July together.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monica's sister's bird, Sweety, enjoyed it, too! </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>When Saturday arrived, we put together a list of four potential sales. We wouldn't be able to go to all of them as we had a barbecue in the afternoon so we chose two that were near to each other. The first one seemed like the best of the bunch so that made the choice easy. It was described as 50 years of accumulation and the pictures showed lots of old stuff. No company was mentioned in the ad but we had a feeling that it might be an unnamed company who has had popup sales for many years and they are always good. Upon arrival, we found that we were right.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monica's sister had one of these Krazy Kars when she was a kid. Monica wound up breaking it when she was an adult. We did not buy Monica's sister another one. We did, however, find a few other things outside. We paid for them, brought them out to the car and then went inside for the second segment of this sale.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The basement was where we searched first and we found this great old refrigerator. As cool as it looked on the outside, it looked even better on the inside.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We found this amoeba-shaped vintage table in the basement. We were considering it but there was some damage to the hardware for the legs so we passed on it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This was so cool! If we only had the room for it! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The main floor and the upstairs also had plenty of things. When we opened this small linen closet upstairs, we think we, accidentally, opened up a portal to the 1970's. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The upstairs also had a vintage table and also a schoolhouse desk with some old Mets stickers. We found lots of good stuff at this sale and we knew that we made the right choice of sales.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a busy weekend and a fun weekend and all we have to do to get to the next weekend is get through four work days as we both took vacation days the following Friday. We'll get there together soon! </b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-10478379361528736542019-07-15T21:09:00.000-04:002019-07-15T21:09:31.692-04:00Closing Out June<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June was a month reminiscent of summer which is not unusual as that is how it should be. The sunshine associated with the season took a long time to arrive but there is no mistaken that summer has actually arrived just as the calendar told us it would. We were looking forward to another sunny weekend but, before we even got to the weekend, we had things to do.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Tuesday, we had a birthday to celebrate as Marissa turned 13! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday, it was time to go see Ron Swoboda of the 1969 World Champion New York Mets. He was at a local bookstore to sign his new book. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There we are with Ron Swoboda! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Saturday came around, we were ready for some saling. We identified four possible sales but the one we liked best was isolated and we knew that going to this one would make it our only one for the day. We had a surprise 50th birthday party to attend that evening and we would not have time for more than one sale if we chose this one. We chose this one.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived at the sale about one hour before its start which wasn't too difficult since it didn't start until 10am. Despite the 45 minute drive, we were here early but not early enough to get near the front of the line. We were $20 and #21 which shouldn't have really surprised us. The sale was described as "Vintage Toy Madness" and its pictures supported that claim. The sale was run by one of our favorite tag sale companies and that was good as we like to see friendly faces. The regulars salers that we are accustomed to seeing weren't here. It was pretty far out east and a lot of people won't travel that far. We do.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The basement was the place to be and that was the place we found ourselves first despite the fact that earliest arrivals were down there a good thirty minutes before we ever got a glance at it. There were so many great things down there! </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There was so much of everything and Monica looks really happy about that! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And, if your thing is old perfumes and colognes, this sale had that, too. The one thing we missed out was a majority of the Christmas stuff and there were some good things down here but an earlier group of salers got to those first. We spent about an hour and a half in that basement and only about five minutes total on the main floor and on </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the upper level. There was nothing there for us. When we left, we did see some familiar faces on line who, for once, arrived later than we did. They saw us leave with lots of stuff and hopefully they found some stuff for them, too. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After getting some late breakfast and then going home to rest, we had the surprise birthday party that night which was fun. On Sunday, we had a chance to do our errands, our chores and to get some rest and, of course, look at our new stuff. This is what we saw:</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A 1961 Charley Weaver battery powered tin toy in its box. It still was covered in its cardboard wrapping inside. It had never been used! </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It may have only been one sale but it was a great one and, most importantly, we had a great time together. We'll see you in our next post where we continue our adventures in July; together amongst the ducks.</b></div>
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Rob and Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03549694581084193823noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026438103706478006.post-91195118718341207562019-07-10T21:43:00.000-04:002019-07-29T19:30:36.801-04:00The Fourth Weekend In June<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, we were a little more than a month behind in our blog posts until a little over a week ago. We posted four times in that span and we are almost caught up! There's no time to rest now that the present is almost in sight! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fact that it was a three day weekend would give us an extra day to find saling opportunities but, alas, it was not to be. Like most weekends this year, there were plenty of sales but few that were of the type that we like. Our only target was a Sunday one and so we set our sights on that one. It's not that we wasted the time off. We had plenty to do around the house and we did plenty that Friday and Saturday which allowed us the freedom to focus on nothing other than saling on Sunday and so we did. But, before we even got to the weekend, there was this...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Friday evening, Keith Hernandez was signing copies of his next book at a book store near us. We saw him a little over a year ago at this same place and he was signing his newly released hardcover version of this book then. The line was wrapped around the building during that first signing but we got there early enough to meet him about 90 minutes into his appearance and he couldn't have been nicer. Now, we made a second trip to meet him again and get the paperback version signed. We were there early and the line was not long this time. We got to see him about 20 minutes into the signing this time.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There we are with Keith Hernandez and we was friendly and pleasant as he was last year!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...signed and personalized for us! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday night after spending most of the day doing errands and chores, we went down to our lake for the first time this year. After all, we have had a lot of rainy weekends! It is a special place for us and a great place to relax. The geese, the swans and the ducks agree.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This monument resides in Argyle Park where our lake is located. This monument commemorates the site where the first professional African-American baseball team was born. The Cuban Giants were formed in 1885 in a hotel that once stood here. Neither the hotel (demolished in 1904) nor the team (disbanded after the 1914 season) have been around in over 100 years. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Sunday, we were ready to go saling. The sale was run by an estate sale company that we really like but which doesn't conduct all that many estate sales. In fact, we see the brothers who run the company more often as fellow salers than as hosts. Their advertisements are a little quieter than most of the major tag sale companies so we were hoping to get in with the first group. As #10 and #11 on line, we did.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The basement had lots and lots of clocks and clock parts. We found out from the hosts that the house was owned by a retired clockmaker. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The upstairs was the place to be because, inside the dozens of boxes we encountered, were lots of great Christmas things (and more). </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other room upstairs was packed, too, and had lots of posters as Monica clearly noticed! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We spent about 90 minutes in this house and were very happy with our finds! After this sale, we had breakfast, visited Monica's dad and then stopped at our old friend's garage sale (someone we have known for 35 years). We even picked up a few things there which he insisted on giving us for free (a vintage hair dryer, a vintage ceramic Easter decoration and a refrigerator magnet. <br /><br />The weather continues to be great and we spent a little time in our garden to look at what was new. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Some old matchbooks. Rob has fond memories of LILCO, our old electric company, as their iconic main office was just a block away from Rob's childhood house. Monica has fond memories of Gouz which was a store located near her house when she was a kid.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lots of Christmas stuff. Honeycomb Christmas decorations, an old red reindeer, a Christmas corsage in box, two ceramic Christmas chimneys, two boxes of Santa head candles, three pairs of ceramic Christmas salt and pepper shakers and a ceramic Santa head mug. Everything except the honeycomb decorations and the reindeer are marked Japan.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It was a great weekend spent together and we couldn't wait for the next weekend to come but we would have to wait five more days. We would get through it, as always, together.</b></span></div>
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