Roadside America

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Imagine if your father's old train set could have filled an airplane hanger. (I hear Neil Young's does, and everything Neil does is ...
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Lead In My Pencil Blues and Collecting Pencils

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ANY advertising pencil is fun. These all happen to be farm and farm supply examples. Pencil trivia, of course, abounds, but none equals the...
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Where Warther Worked

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Mr Warther worked at a steel mill 21 years but his splendid model took only 9 months. Note the big-ass trunk he used to lug it around! A ...
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Order of Service

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Location Unknown, Southern United States Original 35mm photograph and detail c. 1995 Collection Jim Linderman

Heart

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Last night as the radio and I faded, I heard a fellow who claimed to be growing a new heart. True or not, it is clearly possible, and highl...

Hang Fire Books

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Just a quick note of thanks to Hang Fire Books , one of the best sources of vintage sleazy paperbacks, obscure books and the owner of one of...

Jack loves Thelma

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Pure and Simple Homemade Valentine c. 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
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GALS GAMS GARTERS the BOOK

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GALS GAMS GARTERS which is a digital record of an enormous scrapbook found in a dumpster by a Virginia student in the late 1960's. Ou...
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Reverend John Ruth Bible Garden

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Camel and sign from the lost environment of Reverend John D. Ruth, Athens Georgia Original 35mm photograph Athens Georgia c. 1994 collection...
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Mother Dolly on Roller Skates

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Roller skates were being mass produced in the 1880's, which is where I date this tintype. It is not clear if Dolly skated to the studio...

House of Prayer Dixon Mills

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Original 35 mm photograph Dixon Mills, Alabama 1994 Collection Jim Linderman

Miniature Toy Cameras from Japan and Hong Kong

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Since this blog is ostensibly about photography (among other things), this post fits easily. In fact, it would fit anywhere! Teeny, tiny, w...

Prophet Blackmon Revival Center and Shoe Repair Shop

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For forty years Rev. William Blackmon preached in the streets of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, often without a home. In 1974 the Lord bro...

Censored Antique Cheescake Calendar Censorship Erotica

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Calendar Girl, Cheescake, Pin-up Girl, Centerfold, Glamour Girl. All names for more or less the same thing. Paper dolls in vibrant co...

Good Wood: Burl

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Burl. Some of the most beautiful and prized wood carvings produced for use have been made from burl wood. The jumbo redwood burl shown on ...
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Chuckie Williams

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The late Chuckie Williams of Shreveport, Louisiana. Quite a painter, he stacked them for ten years in his mother's house until a fire ...
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Lux Interior r.i.p.

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I just learned Lux Interior of the Cramps passed away. I am not a blogger who links to clips and sound bites. I hardly even discuss music i...
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I Heart my Kanji Tattoo Art and Facts

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At risk of alienating, well...14% of the entire US population, I confess to being indifferent about tattoos. It is a beautiful art to be su...
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Shelby Heflin's Beef

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I do not know what Mr. Heflin's complaint with the VA was, but it made him mad. He was also pretty steamed that a member of his race wou...

The House of David Band

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The House of David continues to operate here in Michigan to everyone's surprise. Most communes which prohibited sex (not to mention hai...