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Thaddeus Was Here

These photogaphs were taken by Thaddeus Wilkerson (1872-1943). He took hundreds of photographs of New York City — both well-known sights and the many new residential buildings, especially around the Upper West Side. His studio was in Washington Heights, so that was his own neighborhood. Lots of these images were used for postcards, and he [...]

Search for Junktique: Meredith, New Hampshire Part 3

Even though my stomach was growling for lunch, and my super-ego told me to go down to the lake and sit in the sun and appreciate “nature,” I couldn’t resist going to look at the window display of Waukewan Antiques. A kind of depressing carnival game “clown head” didn’t entice me. And the other items [...]

Junktique Search: Meredith, New Hampshire – Part 2

After leaving Etcetera Consignment Shop (Part 1, if you missed it!) I walked down Route 25 into town and came upon Antiques at Meredith Bay. I walked in and checked it out. This store has a good selection of collectibles and antiques, though no vintage clothing is to be found. The stock is from different [...]

Junktique Search: Meredith, New Hampshire – Part 1

My husband and I spent the weekend up in Meredith, New Hampshire and I had a chance to look around the town to check out the junktique situation for the day while he spent the afternoon playing golf. Meredith is very pretty, by the way, and right on a lake. My plan was to check out a [...]

Short skirts and Go-Go Boots!

My mom has all these old Life Magazines she inherited from her mom, who used to own a Tuxedo Rental Store in Sacramento. I can’t stop paging through… “Many wary merchants believe that the new length, which is one and a half inches above the knee, is too drastic for anyone to wear but the [...]

Fur Muff Mania

“I snuggled my hands inside the muff. Something hard pressed against my knuckle. Strange. I looked inside. The black satin lining had been torn at the seam and mended closed with uneven stitches. Had someone sewn something in there?” –from ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE   I’ve begun a new Pinterest board of fur muffs matched up [...]

Can you Return an Ebook?

Amazon will take it back, and why shouldn’t they? After all, they can resell it in brand new condition. But hey, is this good for authors? How To Return a Kindle eBook – GalleyCat.

Woolworth’s Condominium or Condomania?

I was interested to see they’re going to be selling condominiums on the top floors of the Woolworth Building because that chain of five and ten cent stores figures into my novel. Olive, my main character who lives in 1907,  grew up around the Woolworth’s her father managed, but she didn’t think much of Frank [...]

From Kinetoscopes to Cellphones

  Thanks to technology, movie screens are getting smaller, just like they were in the the late 1890s when people went to arcades to watch kinetoscopes. But does anyone REALLY use their cellphones to watch movies? “The time is coming when the moving picture and the phonograph will be combined so naturally that we shall [...]

Mario Puzo and his mother

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo My rating: 4 of 5 stars A novel about an Italian immigrant family living in Hell’s Kitchen New York during the 30s. Puzo based the main character of the mother on his own mother. I loved how Puzo said in the introduction that he also modeled the Godfather character [...]