Vintage Slim Pickin's

Remember one of the last scenes of Dr. Strangelove (I think) - there goes Slim Pickens, the character actor, riding an atomic bomb to Earth?  I think he landed around here somewhere because it has been mighty slim pickin's for vintage finds the last two weeks.

Usually after Christmas I can go forth and plunder the goodies galore - truckload after truckload.  In addition to the diary I wrote about earlier (READ HERE), this is all I have found.

Now I will admit I am not actively searching for much.  I have to remind myself daily my resolution word is LESS.  BUT  I have not even been tempted!  Where can that quality junk be?  Are we destined to fiberboard and MDF furniture as the new vintage?  Am I so old that what I consider contemporary is now considered vintage?

I did find this 1960's era Childcraft dresser.  Love the atomic design legs.  Someone had replaced the original pulls with these round wooden ones.  It was probably a stained ash or birch at its birth, but has been through a red paint job, then a white one, and finally this blue-green.  I rather like this piece for my craft room redo.  Yes, I am still trying to figure that out.  I think I will change the knobs and maybe stencil a design.  The drawers are wide and deep - able to hold (and hide) a lot of supplies.

 You know full well that I would not pass up a metal toolbox especially a red one.  Our Goodwill now has a policy forbidding the clerk to take items off the stocking cart and give to a customer.  I had to follow the cart around the store drooling over the toolbox until it was placed on the proper shelf.  I snatched it right from the claws of another shopper who had just arrived.  To the victor goes the spoils!  Hah, Hah! 

(That was not nice - I apologize.)

I have been looking for a pair of scissors to cut multiple strips of paper and I found them! They have five blades - see the price tag?  Cool cuts!

I fell in love with the pewter scallop plate - so tiny, so detailed.  I cannot justify its purchase unless dirt cheap counts.

The Wallace trophy bowl was slightly above my price limit, but I do use these.  If you have heard of this place, let me know.

WIANNO YACHT CLUB

1935

JUNIOR CLASS

CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION

THIRD PRIZE

Due to the wear inside, someone used this for loose change.  I am just hoping it will tarnish some more.

While I was searching for bargains at the Goodwill, a young girl stopped me to compliment me on my retro t-shirt.  I said I had purchased it new at a concert.  To which she replied,  "You mean, like, last century!?!"  

I bet she would not even understand the Slim Pickens reference!

I am off to get my vintage self aboard my vintage yacht and dream vintage dreams of last century - you know, like, the 1900's!

See y'all!

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