I bought a new fridge. It’s older than me.
Posted: June 18, 2014 Filed under: Fun Finds, Vintage tablecloths, Vintage toys | Tags: Akro Agate, vintage kitchen toys, vintage toy dishes, Wolverine toy refrigerator 3 CommentsIt’s also much smaller than me!
It’s a Wolverine, made in the USA in the ’50s.
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The collecting bug bites early
Posted: May 19, 2014 Filed under: Memories, This Old Row House, Vintage toys | Tags: Akro Agate, antique shopping, china cabinet, Hazel Atlas Moderntone platonite Comments Off on The collecting bug bites early“Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” What do you think of this Jesuit motto? Is it true?
I don’t have to go any further than my dining room to see where my childhood and present intersect.
I got my first piece of furniture–a china cabinet–when I was only three years old. My father built it from knotty pine and scraps of Formica counter top. I distinctly remember wanting to be tall enough to see what was on the top shelf. (Now it barely reaches up to my elbows!)