A strong morning for records at the flea market - all cheap and truly worth leaving the house at 5:30 AM! Now I really need some damn coffee.
Posted 3 weeks ago
#Records #vinyl #flea market #B.O.F. #Pailhead #Frijid Pink #Fred Wesley #LPs #Freakout U.S.A.!
#Records #vinyl #flea market #B.O.F. #Pailhead #Frijid Pink #Fred Wesley #LPs #Freakout U.S.A.!
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Tricky early morning flea market puzzle: Which one of these four white objects is not like the others?
Item not purchased at Swap-O-Rama in Chicago this morning: a vast army of little plastic friends.
Posted 1 month ago
#Swap-O-Rama #Item I did not buy #flea market #Say hello to my little friends #toys #plastic crap
#Swap-O-Rama #Item I did not buy #flea market #Say hello to my little friends #toys #plastic crap
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Item I did not purchase this morning at Swap-O-Rama in Chicago: A banana box of women’s shoes.
It was a pretty chilly and windy morning for a visit to Swap-O-Rama on Chicago’s south side, and there were not nearly as many sellers as usual for a Sunday, but I haven’t been there in what feels like forever. To continue the sporadic series of items I did not buy at the flea market, here’s a riding Triceratops.
Public Collectors Request Line Fulfillment: The wild French artist toutplacid asked: “Ho yes, please post more of flea markets material, and the reasons why you purchased it or not. thank you.”
In the process of buying a house and moving all of my crap last spring, I got pretty burnt out on flea markets and didn’t go very much in the summer or early fall. Now that I’m mostly unpacked, I’ve been a bit more interested and curious again.
This is a photo of a table of plastic dinosaurs that I took in June 2011. I didn’t buy any of these but I appreciated that the seller spread them out and displayed them with care. These were probably priced quite cheaply and normally things like this are just dumped in a box and set on the ground, seemingly without any expectation that they’d generate much money.
I generally never buy toys and knick knacks at flea markets. I don’t like a lot of stuff that needs to sit out on a shelf or a table on constant display. I like books and records because I can file them away and then pull them out only when I want to immerse myself in them.
Thanks to all who have participated in the Public Collectors Request Line. I’m happy to keep taking requests so if you follow this blog, just click the reply box in your Tumblr feed and I’ll do my best. Multiple requests are fine too.
Posted 4 months ago
#flea market #flea market find #dinosaurs #Public Collectors Request Line #toutplacid #toys #knick knacks
#flea market #flea market find #dinosaurs #Public Collectors Request Line #toutplacid #toys #knick knacks
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A photo dated February, 1970 that must have been taken at a science fair. Make no mistake: if I ever start a band, that band will be named The Metabolistic Cockroaches. From a trove of personal photos that I acquired at Swap-O-Rama in Chicago and began posting at the end of April of this year. More found photos on Public Collectors here.
Posted 11 months ago
#flea market #flea market find #family photos #found photos #science fair #metabolistic cockroaches #Swap-O-Rama
#flea market #flea market find #family photos #found photos #science fair #metabolistic cockroaches #Swap-O-Rama
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Combination of items not purchased at the flea market in Copenhagen this morning: bouncy-looking baby seat with crash helmet.
I’m in Copenhagen this week because the group I’m a member of, Temporary Services, is doing a project titled MUSIC MOUNTAIN nearby in Tingbjerg. You can check out the details of that here. This morning before meeting up with Brett from Temporary Services for brunch, I checked out a pretty dingy flea market and spotted this - the twin towers of old computers. The only thing I scored at the market were two pretty sweet early 1970s Danish versions of American superhero comics. I’ll post some scans when I return to Chicago.
Posted 1 year ago
#Temporary Services #Copenhagen #MUSIC MOUNTAIN #flea market #old computers #computers
#Temporary Services #Copenhagen #MUSIC MOUNTAIN #flea market #old computers #computers
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I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of nightmares this unbelievably ugly doll must have caused for some small child. Photographed, but left behind to rot, at the flea market this morning near Chicago.
From this morning’s trip to the flea market: beautiful 8mm horror films for sale. More here.
From this morning’s trip to the flea market: old 8mm horror films that were extremely tempting to buy if only for the stunning design, and packaging that looked like it hadn’t been exposed to light since the day these were produced.
From this morning’s trip to the flea market: a trio of low maintenance companions. I later saw someone carting around the one with the chain attached to its head so I guess it found a new owner.
From this morning’s trip to the flea market: Eyes Without a Face doll and miniature grandmother in a bag.
I saw quite a few clown paintings haunting the flea market this morning but nothing was more terrifying than this (and no I did not buy it!).
