In The Interest Of Sceince

Instructions for better living from my collection. This advisement takes us through chemistry, astronomy, survival, evasion, escape and (of course) home movies. What else IS there, we ask ourselves?

Tips For Teens: Courage & Caution

Some teen tales from my book collection: Incendiary, alarmist or just plain encouraging. By the late 1960s, Dear Abby's 1950s platitudes on neatness for keen teens were long forgotten, giving way to cautionary tales of drug culture downers. It was all either "a bummer", "a burn" or "a happening in a far out kinda way". Trippy, man...

Say It With Plexiglas

A collection of illustrated postcards from 1964 that were created by the Rohm & Haas Corporation. These cards colorfully illustrated the flexibility and luminosity of Plexiglas as a material for lighted signs. The original set (which I have) came sheathed in a black box with brown heiroglyphic symbols and an interior booklet which encouraged retail establishments to use Plexi for their frontage, likening our modern signage to the ancient heiroglyphics found in ancient ruins.

Black & White: Beautiful & Unusual

Uncredited images with mysterious un-named subjects from eBay.

Mystic Eye: Sees All. Knows All. Tells All.

Another item from my collection, bought in Upstate New York about 15 years ago. In addition to instructions on how to use the fortune-telling pendulum, the booklet contains a group of questions to ask at a party, such as: Do you sleep with your sox on? Would you like to date Betty Grable? Are your uppers paid for?

Sex Swingers, Dead Nymphos, Naked Strangers & Non-Virgins

Some smutty fun from my paperback collection. Open any page... instant laughs!