The Saturday Picture Show, November 26, 2022

 

Let's start off this week by looking at one of the worst architectural nightmares since the house I saw in which, if one wanted to go from the first floor to the second floor, one was obligated to go outside and use the stairs there. This door seems to open up to a closet, my best guess, but be careful when you leave, if you wander in there to look for that sweatshirt you can't find. 

Imagine telling someone very young that, back in the day, we got these special green stamps with every grocery purchase, and the youngest member of the family (raises hand) had to paste the stamps in a special book. Once the family had a drawerful of filled books, they went to a special store and turned the books in for a toaster or a set of hedge clippers. True story.

Yes sir, it is what you think, an AM-FM radio hat. If you are wearing this and the skies turn cloudy and the DJ plays Lou Christie's "Lightnin' Strikes," you better run!

This is the car in which Bonnie and Clyde, unattractive bank robbers from the 1930s, met their untimely end. Clyde loved his Ford V-8 so much, he wrote to Henry Ford, extolling its speed and handling qualities. He should have installed some armor plate, but oh well.

Rod Stewart, the singer, model railroader, and soccer fan, made a habit of kicking soccer balls into the audience during his concerts. Someone who caught one way back in the day has saved it and kept it inflated all these years. It even looks like someone played soccer with it.

A bird's-eye view of the baseball stadium at Appalachian State College down in Boone, North Carolina. Just over the next hill is Boone's Farm!

I love the can-do attitude of the people of Buffalo this week. Sure, give me 77" of snow, and I'll put on my shorts and deal with it!

Please! No cloves in my ham, but an orange studded with them makes a swell holiday pomander.

Our mail comes so late these days, it's always after dark. I'm thinking of installing a night light on the mailbox. But this old milk can is a pretty good idea too!

I'm on a good roll for finding pictures of cool old sheds lately. This one is custom-fitted with a hornet's nest and a spider web already installed. But I promise you, if you have so many gate hooks that you need an old mayonnaise jar to hold them, well, sir, you have a lifetime supply of gate hooks!