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Friday, June 30, 2017

Another production still from unknown origin.

#foundphoto #mystery #film #filmproduction #behindthescenes #1960s #actor #actress #urbanarcheology #picking #searching #interesting #colorfilm #stills #productionstills
Another production still from unknown origin. There seems to be an early 60s military informational vibe with all of them, except maybe this one. See if you can figure out what's going on and who is behind it.

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Saturday, June 10, 2017

Wanna know how I find all these bizarre cool and unique things I post?

#speaking #treasure #history #picker #pickers #picking #estatesalefinds #estatesale #garagesale #tagsale #cool #unique #storytelling #ted #inspirational #motivational #urbanarcheology #confessions #humor #humour #fun #thingstodo #connecticut #
Wanna know how I find all those bizarre cool and unique things I post? If you're in Connecticut stop by the Brookfield library- the show starts at 7pm.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

When 2 of my worlds collide...

#estatesale #books #oldbooks #huey #toon #howto #thingsfoundinbooks #nostalgia #cartoons #cartooning #draw #drinks #1935 #illustration #illustrator #urbanarcheology #cartooning #humour #funny #bookcollection #humor
When 2 of my worlds collide...this estate sale treasure of a book from 1935 on how to cartoon also had play money from 1947 tucked in the pages. That's a a 2fer.
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Gold is where you find it - In The Ceiling!

Every weekend is another opportunity to not only search for gold, but also provide a useful service to humanity.  My good friend Justin Krul (of Just-In Antiques and More!) advertised an estate sale in Sandy Hook CT (still going on as this is being written).   My initial scan of the home found it to be extremely well set-up and very clean. My first discovery were some cool albums
#found #vinyl #vintage #old #music #bawdy #goodolddays #humor #funny #album # #record # stripper #nostalgia #albumcover #estatesale #estatesalefinds #urbanarcheology #listen #recordcollection #photography #treasurehunting #justinantiques #takeitalloff

My plan is always to make a 2nd and 3rd inspection and each time to look deeper and deeper into the house (with permission).  My goal is to find what was missed, the hidey-holes and cubbys that we all consider as safe places...so safe, we  forget about them.

A common place to hide items is above ceilings - so much dead space and flat surfaces they are hard to resist.  This is where I come in.  In this sale I was able to uncover valuables the owner would have left to the next buyer, or whoever may have stumbled across them.  Watch this short dig report and see the discover as it happened...

The epilogue is: Justin returned the items to the owner and they were ecstatic and confessed that her father would often hide these things before going away on a trip. This happy ending to the story is what makes Urban Archeology so satisfying to me.  

I love album covers.

#speaking #treasure #history #picker #pickers #picking #estatesalefinds #estatesale #garagesale #tagsale #cool #unique #storytelling #ted #inspirational #motivational #urbanarcheology #confessions #humor #humour #fun #thingstodo #connecticut #
I love album covers. I also love a good treasure hunt. Although I rarely buy vinyl at sales I still can't help going through a stack of them - they are like glossy pages of an oversized picture book - some beautiful, some bawdy, some both.

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