As all the plants and flowers come alive,
many more things are taking shape...
Everything leading up to the spring art shows is a blur now.
Doing prep for the art shows… A 9th grader starts reciting the lyrics to “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” by The Smiths and I DID NOT have that on my Monday bingo card. So, I did what any self respecting Gen X art teacher would do… I sang it for the class (and you know I SLAYED those high notes).
eBay Score: Asbury Park Casino Postcard (1960s)
The late 1920s iteration of The Asbury Park Casino (seen here) was a stone structure designed by Warren & Wetmore. It was a replacement for the turn of the century wooden Casino structure that burned on January 12th 1928. Oddly enough, I would be born on that EXACT day 45 years later in 1973. I had been collecting Asbury Casino ephemera for a couple of years before I knew the date of that fire and I was even able to find a dated photo of that disastrous event for my collection. The ballroom portion of The Casino was excised in 2006 but luckily I was able to take many photos of it (including interiors shot through holes in the walls and doors) and gather a number of pieces of the building before it was demolished. The walkway to Ocean Grove and the carousel house still stand. If you zoom in and look to the right of Wesley Lake, you can see the red roof and ferris wheel of Palace Amusements. The mural of Tillie is faintly visible as well.
A Cracked magazine from 1966
Recently I completed my collection of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In Magazine (October 1968 - October 1969). As some of you may know, I started collecting memorabilia from this TV show (which ran from 1968 - 1973) quite a few years ago. My collection of souvenirs, which includes games, a lunchbox, a waste paper basket, an electric drawing set, a paper doll set, pins, books, LPs and cover features on the cast in an array of news and entertainment magazines continues to grow. I even have a framed cinema lobby poster from the Laugh-In film The Maltese Bippy in my kitchen. Have I thought of ways to incorporate a psychedelic joke wall (complete with swinging doors) into the design of my next home? You bet your sweet bippy I have! SOCK IT TO ME!
TV Radio Mirror Magazine (1970)
Three issues of TV Guide with Andy Williams
on the cover, one with his ex-wife Claudine Longet,
who recently passed away. (1963 - 1965)
Recently acquired items from the 1960s
and 1970s: Pencils, crayons and oil pastels
Two 1980s pop music books from the UK.
Both of these are recent eBay purchases.
The top one is from 1983 and the bottom one is from 1985.
It's amazing how certain genres of artists or bands dominated the
music scene in the first half of the 1980s in the US, UK and abroad.
Though these aren't periodicals, these two books have a pop
magazine feel to them. In fact, they function like school yearbooks in a
sense and make for fascinating time capsules. The fashions
and stylings alone are worth the cover price.
Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally (2026) Smoke Machine Vinyl, Silver Glitter Cassette & Casebook CD. Really enjoying this album and the graphic design team NAILED the deluxe packaging and presentation of this project. (PS: If you ask me, I say DISCO FOREVER)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOM! XOXO
Day one of set up for the art shows...
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Underclassmen Art Show was a lot of fun.
Always great to see alumni at our events.
