Step Inside the Mid-Century Kitchen The refrigerator is humming. The percolator is bubbling. The clock on the wall ticks with the particular confidence of a clock that has absolutely nowhere to be. There is a Formica table with chrome legs pushed against the window. Curtains hang over the sink. A recipe box sits on the […]
🎃 Vintage Halloween Collectibles and Why Collectors Can't Get Enough of Them Here is something worth thinking about the next time you walk through an antique mall in October: most of what you are looking at was never meant to survive. The paper jack-o-lantern hanging from the ceiling was meant to be used once and […]
🔥 Collecting Match Safes: The Remarkable Pocket Treasures Most Collectors Overlook There is a category of antique that sits in plain sight at almost every antique mall, estate sale, and flea market in the country, gets picked up, turned over, set back down, and walked past by collectors who do not quite know what they […]
⛽Ethyl Got Full Service: A Vintage Gas Station Long before self service pumps and convenience stores, a visit to a gas station was a very different experience. A bell rang as your tires rolled across a rubber hose. An attendant stepped outside. Windows were cleaned. Oil was checked. Directions were offered. Today, many of the […]
From Bullet Bras to Magic Fingers: A Mid-Century Motel For travelers in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, pulling into a motel parking lot was its own kind of thrill. The neon sign buzzed and flickered against a darkening sky. A metal key dangled from an oversized fob. The room ran you about twenty dollars a […]