I did manage to hit a few estate sales recently. Picked up a few gems...
1st up a room key & fob from the defunct Dearborn Hyatt Regency Hotel.
I'm not the type to go for "fake nostalgia"...how people pine away for olden days they weren't there to remember or experience baffles me. And bores me.
My Gramps worked on this hotel back in the 1970's....halcyon days. That hotel aways makes me think of him.
I came across the Wayne Creamery milk bottle at an estate sale that had hundreds of bottles. Is it from the Wayne Eloise Hospital? Don't know, won't waste my time wondering. Was the best looking bottle they had.
Everybody loved Kmart. A Detroit original. Old peanut jar...pre barcode. Great shape, too.
If you were alive in the Detroit metro area during the 60's to the 80's you probably knew who Ollie Fretter was.
In the days before Corporate America and the "McDonaldization of America" ran the "Mom & Pop" stores out of business, local small businesses thrived.
Ollie was a local appliances merchant. He had crazy commercials on local TV. His slogan "I'll give you 5 lbs of coffee if I can't beat your best deal" made him a local celeb. I'd never actually seen a can of "his" coffee...or even imagined that such a thing existed. But here we are. Really...a local treasure.
But...is it the right lid for the jar? Is it period correct?!? Does it really matter in the Grand Scheme of the Universe?
"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect". Exactly, exactly.
And that's all we have time for today...
