Pulp Fiction

Some stats: There are nine cartons here of zingy lurid racy tough gritty and absolutely not pc pulp fiction paperbacks. Of the pocket sized kind, there are 139 books, including 8 Ace Double Novels. The word "dame" occurs, I'm estimating, about 1,500 times.

Other common words include sucker, killer, murder, heck, aw, gun, piece, curves, and dark.

The eight double novels.

My favorite cover may be I Want Out, with its double frame.

The other side of the same books, flipped over and turned upside down. That's how they work. Apparently it's called "tete-beche." The Big Fix takes the cake for me.

The spines.

The edges. Not too shabby.

She's naked, wet, her hair is dry and styled, and she's about to hit this guy over the head with the butt of a gun. Noir has its own logic. Best not to mess with it.

Amazing wonder vehicles (from the group of 16 photos)

6 wheel English lorry for bad roads, copyrighted photo from Eliot Service Co., NY

German fire engine to cross fields or small ponds, copyrighted photo from Eliot Service Co., NY

Promoting the American Landscape in the 1920s 
 

From a group of 16 press and landscape photos

Some by Underwood & Underwood

A group of press photos promoting the beauties of Colorado, in 1922

Perfect mirror, no i.d.

Lake Keechulue, Washington, by Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway

Looks like a double exposure of beavers and loggers at work

Diptych of huge house on the road

Another batch of photos and postcards from long ago

Blue, teal, black, lemon, white.

Color is the easiest way to think, my mother used to say.

1980s travel tote (coming to the shop soon)

1950s bedtable (flips up for a book stand)

turquoise blue flow lunch plates

1950 candy tin

vintage boy scouts bear cub neckerchief slide

There are so many changes going on right now. All great. The shop finally has its own studio, freshly built. I can start working with models, including Rebe, who rocks the vintage with her own special flair. More on her, as in a kind of formal introduction, coming up! When she's not modeling, she uses power tools and works on houses. I found her slinging wicked cappuccinos at a cafe. All the great ones work in restaurants at some point in their life, my waiter grandpa used to say.