more treasure...

An early Happy New Year! to my non-existent readers lol.

look, it's the original vent-a-hood brochure for the house!

I've found the original paperwork from the sale of the house in May of 1954.  I remember my grandmother telling me about how she and dad would pile the kids (my mother and uncle) into the car and drive all the way down from Oceanside to eat a picnic lunch down here in Long Beach at the construction site and watch the workmen building this house.  And slogging through the mud because there wasn't a paved road yet and they had to park a couple of blocks away and walk through bean fields.  Now that she's gone I'm wishing more and more that I had written down some of the memories she shared with me.  There are so many questions I would like to ask.

I should probably scan this entire thing and post it.

As seen on T.V!

A few things I've found so far

Modern technology lol.

Cleaning out the house has yielded some interesting finds.  I've been posting them on my facebook, but I figured I'd share them here too.   Hell, I should think about selling some of this stuff.

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I love old cookbooks.

ok, any excuse to insert pictures of my kitties.  This is Jack.

got the 8-track player too, not sure if it still works

Getting Verizon Fios installed today.  They asked if I had any outlets that take three prong plugs and I reminded them that this house was built in 1954.

sooper secret show

Just a heads up, LA peeps.  The Knitters are going to be doing a secret show at the Redwood in downtown LA this Sunday.

Do you have any idea how challenging the shopping for retro goodies becomes when you don't like pink? *grumbles*

Testing....

Is this blog even turned on?