Collectors and Collecting. Presenting my Dirt Collection.
I won't say this is the first time I have paid for dirt, as my garden needed soil to counteract the sand. I felt stupid buying dirt, as there is so much of it around...
But this is the first time I can honestly say I have owned a collection of dirt.
Seems like every state was swept up here, then specialty items started appearing. Dirt from Disneyland. Dirt from the highest point in so and so, the furthest point in somewhere else. Well over one hundred examples, each one numbered and labled with a hand-typed "cursive" red font from a typewriter. Each little plastic pill bottle scooped full and carried home.
We used to have our choice of two fonts, but they could have gone with the dymo labelmaker too.
Said to have been collected by a husband and wife team of traveling CLOWNS! The estate sale had their costumes and such too.
DIRT collection Jim Linderman No date (ancient...dirt is really old)
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I spent plenty of time at the 26th Street Flea Market and the Pier Shows in NYC. I was a regular. I don't know if folks noticed me and said "there's that guy again" but I certainly said it to enough to myself. My favorites? The one legged man entirely dressed in a pirate uniform asking each dealer for cast iron cookware. The large man asking repeatedly "poker chips? poker chips? poker chips?" while dressed in a dingy t-shirt which read of course "POKER CHIPS" and the most flamboyant fellow in stripped tights...and I mean tight. Here is another fellow who seems to have taken his hobby a bit too far...a man dressed in cigar bands. At least he is appearing at the International Cigar Band Society convention in New York City in 1947. I hope he took a cab right to the show, but if not, I guess no one would have looked twice.Original Press Photograph, Man with Cigar Band Clothing 1947 Collection Jim Linderman
