Back in the 1920s, if you could pop a few balloons with darts or throw a rope ring around a bottle, you might win one of these delightful canes. I’ve had several, most with dice or dog heads, but this is the first one I’ve found with a porcelain baseball knob. And there is something a little special about this one. The “winner” carved his initials in the shaft. He wanted to be sure everyone knew it was “he” who successfully got over on those carnival people.
This outfit was worn and used by Madonna while rehearsing at LANDMARK STUDIOS for her “Blonde Ambition” tour during the summer of 1990.
I bought it in mind to have framed and to be part of my collection, and probably be buried with it.
Thanks, Lizz!
…this was in grandfather’s “bag o’ wallets”, next to his “bag o’ eyeglasses”, next to his “bag o’ pocket watches”, next to his “bag or straight razors”
I recently moved into a house and when cleaning out a utility room I found this hidden in one of the walls! It looks like an old Irish shillelagh, but I’m not sure and I really don’t know what it was doing in our walls. Well, the previous owners of our house were very strange. We often suspected they were into some kind of magic. I suspect this has some kind of magic power associated with it and frankly, my family cannot handle this kind of power!
I worked for the company that made these buttons and the funny story of it is, the order placed for these buttons was put in by a counterfeiter of Coca Cola jeans… I guess it wasnt funny to the company who had made several hundred thousand of these button, and had to destroy them… but still. I thought it would be nice to have a souvenir of the great button fiasco and have held on to them for 25 years. LOL
I put together this costume myself. ^_^ I made it to wear to the 3rd movie opening. It was fun…I had finished putting it together like 3 months before the movie came out. And I wanted to test drive it. So I put it on and strolled the mall. Some ppl liked it. Some…. Not so much. Now remember this costume covers you from Head to toe. No skin showing. So of course ppl thought I might be there to rob places. No. Just for fun. Well Security wanted me to take off the mask to show my face. Being in a Skin tight suit….. Not gonna happen. ^_^’ So like 10 Security guys ended up Escorting me out of the mall. Scary but fun. Have a good bidding. And to the winner. Enjoy it. You will Love it.
Wonderful red children’s hankie with the pictures of Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne Dionne…The Dionne quintuplets were born during the depression on May 28, 1934. They are the worlds first known surviving quintuplets. I asked Jeeves about their history, and boy is it sad. The Canadian government took the babies away from their parents and built a hospital to take care of them and to study them. The parents finally won them back at age 9 in a law suit.
These make Shorty feel like a kid again. I used to borrow Dad’s socks when all of mine were dirty. His feet were a lot bigger, and his socks pulled way up over my knees. Of course, Shorty’s feet grew and grew, and eventually my feet were bigger than Dad’s, but now that he’s is gone, when I wear these socks I always think of him. Thanks for the memories, Dad.
Although the names have long been forgotten, the original owner of this cane was a stage actor, and as the story goes, was in Minneapolis performing in a play. During some time off, he and his wife were out for a walk to see the city and while they were on this walk, his wife fell to her death from a bridge over the Mississippi river, and although it was never proven, it was suspected that he threw her from the bridge.
…the case once belonged to the granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
