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My LBs are all originals (no repros). At some point space became a consideration, so I've been trying to focus on fewer items in top condition (with exceptions for a few rarer items like the Underdog and Knight in Armor). I really like boxes with the original tags or items with their original boxes when I can find them. |
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I kept almost all of my tickets from concerts including my first show in 1978, David Bowie in Ottawa.
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Way too many other things, from early U.S. items such as coins, stamp and currency to Hot Wheels, G I Joe and lots of other items in between.
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I collect motion beer signs. For example I have the complete set where the frame is the same but different brands. I alos have both PBR Jalopys. Blue one attached.
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Duke Basketball Player National Championship rings (1992 Laettner, 2015 Okafor)
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And what's the lunch box with the light yellow rim with the Indians on the upper left corner? :confused: Moreover your bottom picture is a bit too big. I actually limit all my pics to 1000 pixels in width. ;) |
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My "other" collection is one I haven't seen yet in this thread. I collect recordings of old time radio shows. It always surprises me that many people are unaware that before television, radio was like...television. Sitcoms, dramas, variety shows, it had everything. You had big stars like Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Eddie Cantor and others, and you had some great shows of every type - Suspense, Lights Out, Inner Sanctum (radio was REALLY good for horror stories, since you could get away with some astounding levels of violence when you're dealing with audio only).
Even shows that existed in both media show a difference. Gunsmoke started in radio a few years before it started on TV. William Conrad was the original Marshall Dillon. I'm not a fan of Westerns and couldn't care less about the TV Gunsmoke. But the radio version is one of the best continuing dramas I've ever heard. The radio version was also much more adult - Dodge City was violent and unjust (you wouldn't want to live there), and Miss Kitty was clearly meant to be a hooker (although they couldn't say so explicitly). A large portion of radio was not preserved, but a good bit of it has survived and is avidly collected by a few enthusiasts. Recordings can be heard as full computer files or as mp3 recordings. I have a library of over 60,000 shows and could get my hands on more. By the way, I do have a few sports-related recordings - lots of Bill Stern shows, which include interviews and also his very improbable sports tall tales. I also have a handful of complete game broadcasts, including the last game of the 1934 season between the Tigers and the Yankees. As for photos, how about an exhibit card picturing the Lone Ranger and Tonto? Alan |
The Lone Ranger unmasked? At last, we can identify him.
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I also have a passion for Toyota Landcruisers.
I currently own this 1990 Japanese Domestic Market HZJ77 right hand drive diesel and 2024 First Edition. Love those 70 series builds! Unfortunately they were never offered new in the U.S. market. Hoping to add an Icon FJ44 or FJ45 in the future. |
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I find my lunch boxes online. Ebay sometimes but I tend to find a more interesting selection on other sites. Being based in the UK, I'm restricted to online purchases. Saying that, I did buy my first lunchbox at an antiques fair in England. One day, I'd love to get to a toy convention on a trip to the States where I might be able to find lunchboxes. The lunchbox with the yellow trim is called Pathfinder. It was made in 1959 by Universal. The thermos came with a compass on the top but they're almost always missing. I was lucky to find one with the compass intact a few years ago. |
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I find 1960 Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer vacuform jalopy Backbar Sign Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Ebay sometimes but I tend to find a more interesting selection on other sites. But i wish I could get the one a Little but cheap here.
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VintagevToys, mostly character tin wind ups
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Balticfox: The Scott PC is Wendell Scott, basically the Jackie Robinson of NASCAR. On the Parkie, it's worse that that: the Rose card is from the Dynajector package of cards that was made by Parkhurst but is two-sided and larger than the regular issue cards. I also have the regular Parkhurst Rose cards, postcards and photos but haven't scanned them yet. Why Mauri Rose? Member of the tribe. Same reason I collect Stirling Moss, Jody Scheckter and Francois Cevert F1 cards, and root for Aston Martin in the current F1 (Lance Stroll). I also like to collect drivers who have successfully raced across different circuits, like F1, NASCAR, and Indy. Andretti, Foyt, Montoya, etc. https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...dretti%201.jpg https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Foyt%20TTM.jpg https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20Montoya.jpg |
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I am more of an opportunistic buyer than a collector of whales teeth and whaling industry stuff from the old days, like the harpoon on the wall.
I also have a handful of weather vein direction arrows around here that I have not gotten around to putting on the wall on lightning rod balls. Also, some entry level tobacco signs, cigar boxes and advertising pieces, nothing like the other stuff shown in this thread! Happy collecting, Bob |
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The Year Richard Petty Went Drag Racing - Hot Rod But how about from another part of the entertainment industry to auto racing? https://hosting.photobucket.com/85c5...56d49eff86.jpg :confused: |
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Cone seashells. Cones are a type of carnivorous snail. For collectors of Judaica, that's Cone, not Cohen.
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Yeah, Marty Robbins. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen raced too.
The King is a favorite collecting subject; he's still around and signing TTM via his museum. His true RC is the 1962 PC: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ize/img453.jpg But most consider the 1972 STP card instead: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ed%20card.jpeg I've got it covered either way. Drivers amaze me, especially today. Fastest I've ever had a car to is about 110; I cannot imagine 200+ mph. The reaction times these guys have, gotta be like jungle cats. |
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Scott wasn't the first African-American to compete in NASCAR's premier division, but he was the first to be a full-time competitor. He served three years in the U.S. Army during World War II where he honed his mechanical skills in the motor pool. Scott started racing in 1947 and experienced immediate success behind the wheel. He won over 100 races in the next decade at local area tracks. Scott made his first start in NASCAR’s premier series on March 4, 1961 at Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds in Spartanburg, S.C. He made 23 starts that season, posting five top-five finishes. On Dec. 1, 1963 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Fla., Scott became the first African American to win a NASCAR premier series event. Scott won the 100-mile feature race after starting 15th. Over the next 13 years, Scott would make 495 starts, which ranks 32nd on the all-time list. In his distinguished career, Scott accumulated 20 top-five finishes including eight of them in the same season he won his first career race, 1964. Scott also posted 147 top-10 finishes, more than 25 percent of the races he entered. |
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I quickly learned that Richard Petty drove a Dodge Charger superficially like my own on the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National circuit and I became a wild-eyed drooling fan of Richard Petty. Here is Petty side-by-side with the Mercury Montego of David Pearson who at the time was his foremost rival: https://hosting.photobucket.com/85c5...2a97493bf6.jpg Coincidentally our next door neighbour George Beardshaw (still alive at the age of 101 and now a Knight of the French Legion of Honour for participating in the D-Day Invasion) had a 1973 Mercury Montego and our two cars were parked less than a meter apart in our shared driveway! Here's a writeup on George Beardshaw: George Beardshaw - Queen's Own Rifles :cool: |
Just love these press photos from the original show.
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Love the OG Trek pics. Got any with the press releases attached?
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I haven't added to this collection recently, but I have a collection of old coins, particularly a lot of 18th and 19th century European silver (Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Romanov, Ottoman, etc.), collected while spending time in Eastern Europe (back in 2003 you could get a nice silver imperial Russian ruble for $5 in Kyiv).
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I worked at a new wave dance club behind Fenway Park so I heard a lot of this music (Killing Joke, Smiths and others). They did have some surpise guests on ocassion. I got to see The Modettes, Chelsea and the Skatt Brothers and The Vapors in the club next door. After I stopped working there I photographed and interviewed The Fall (Mark E. Smith) and The Waitresses (Chris Butler). Do you like The Plasics from Japan? I photographed and interviewed them at The Paradise. Saw/photographed the Boomtown Rats and Secret Affair there. I am also a fan of Juliana Hatfield. First time I saw her I thought she was hot. Fortunate enough to see her in 2 record store shows (MA and DC). Tour with Evan Dando in Arlington, VA about 2006 and one year ago for a free show at the Kennedy Center in D.C. just after the release of her ELO cover album. Also saw/met/photographed a few of the others - Jam, Siouxsie, English Beat, Specials, Damned, SLF, Suicide, Neighborhoods, Thrills, Unnatural Axe (w/Cheetah Chrome), X, James White and the Blacks (Contortions), Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Fleshtones. Lastly, nice to see the Mission of Burma 'Academy Fight Song' 45. I still have mine from over 40 years ago. I think it is much better than "...Revolver" which most people preferred. I saw them open up for Gang of Four 1979/1980 in Boston |
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If you are looking at girl groups from that period you may want to check out The Slits ("Typical Girls" & "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"). The lead singer Ari Up (Arianne Forster) was Johnny "Rotten" Lydons' stepdaughter. She died in 2010 in LA. The original drummer Palmolive (Paloma Romero) left before their first album and formed the Raincoats. She now lives about 2 miles from my wifes stepmother on Cape Cod in Mass. I just found her address and may have to send her the CD booklet from the John Peel sessions to sign if I can find a copy. There is a good documentary on Poly Styrene called "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché" narrated by her daughter Celeste Bell. I saw it sometime last year on tv. Lora Logic, the sax player on the singles "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" and "Oh Bondage, Up Yours" left before their only album though they used her sax arrangements. She formed her own band Essential Logic. She also played on the Raincoats album. She is now a film maker. For a non female band check out The Ruts ('Babylon's Burning', 'Jah Wars', 'Staring at the Rude Boys') I believe I saw Kula Shaker 'Taatva' on your list. The lead singer/guitarist, Crispian Mills is the son of actress Hayley Mills. They are touring in the U.K. this year. It is interesting to see 'youngsters' wearing t-shirts of the early punk/new wave bands. Plenty of Ramones shirts (Saw them 5-6 times and met them almost as many). The funniest one for me was seeing a teenager wearing a Dead Kennedys tee. I said casually "I saw them in 1980". The kid started bowing. In 2008 my wife and I were in Cabo San Lucas walking back from dinner. A guy was walking towards us wearing some punk/new wave band t-shirt, maybe Iggy/The Jam. I mentioned that I liked the shirt and saw/met/photographed the group. He asked if we wanted tickets to his bands show at Sammy Hagar's club The Cabo Wabo Cantina. Free tickets, sure. It was the band Slightly Stoopid who play a lot of festivals. |
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It's not a 'collecting issue' in this home, rather a 'wall space issue'...
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Fast cars. I have been into muscle cars since the mid 1970s. I have owned several over the years. I currently have three muscle cars. The first is a 1968 Beaumont SD396 that I have owned for almost 22 years. It originally had a 396 engine with 325 horsepower. It now has a 427 with 543 hp. A year ago this month I bought a 2023 Camaro ZL1 with 650 hp. Last month I bought a 2023 Challenger Hellcat with 717 hp. My daily driver is a 2024 Silverado High Country with 425 hp.
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Do you favour one piece mag wheels? What's your choice in tires? I'm still a fan of 60 series B.F. Goodrich Radial T/A's. Which do you prefer? Turbo mufflers or glass packs, e.g. Cherry Bombs? :confused: |
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I collect first edition Magic The Gathering Cards.
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video games, star wars figures, photos, but mostly soccer (and some F1 stuff)... I thought that I had more pictures, but these rare Fangios will have to do for this post....
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Grew up in the 80's playing arcade games and collected Nintendo NES games when that came out. I was talking to my boss about it one day and he said that he had a guy that refurbishes stand up arcade machines and loads them up with modern equipment and puts many classic games on it. This one I got from him has 4610 total games on it. Haven't played any of my Nintendo games ever since as they are on this stand up.
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I have collected comic books, cards, coins, toys, and dice. The comic books are nothing special as I collected in the late 80s through the late 90s. I still have most of my original Star Wars, Transformers, and GI Joe toys, well the ones that survived that is. The things that I actively collect now are old and new Dungeons and Dragons dice, which I have hundreds of, ancient coins, and Magic the Gathering artist proofs of the original 25 artists.
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I tell folks, only half kiddingly, that my wife and I collect animals. We have a small hobby farm and have cats, dogs, and horses. Following from that, I collect horse themed pre-war tobacco cards. Mostly early 20th century British issues, but I have also completed all three Kinney Brothers sets (N229 to N231)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...0/IMG_7039.jpg I started on the Allen & Ginter World's Racers (N32) but haven't really done much with it in several years, although I do have the album premium https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...0/IMG_3075.jpg I also help my wife with her mid-century glass collection. She started with barware and has expanded into swung vases, ashtrays, and more recently marbles. Sometimes I feel like I am enabling a hoarder since her collection is starting to consume every flat surface in our small house. But, it makes her happy and she is actively packing away the less interesting items. |
I started collecting cartoon glasses as a kid back in 1973...here is my Holy Grail glass...it's a Terrytoons Mighty Mouse 16 ounce Brockway glass...if interested my other 51 glasses can be seen on my Facebook page...here is a link to my Warner Brothers set
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I have a Wacky Packages collection that includes all of the first ten series (sets) from the 1970s.
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From my years in China, I got into collecting stuff from Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
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Not a collector of banking memorabilia but am a collector of the unusual. When I came across a new in box stack of $20 bills dye pack that would have been thrown in with robbery money I couldn't resist:D
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Al, those Starosta Fangios definitely do the job. Those sets had some pretty great cards in them.
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