Stickermania: The Black Hole (1979)

Stickers from the mammoth 1979 trading card set for Walt Disney's 

production of The Black Hole. Before gifs, YouTube, fan fiction, Blu-Ray, 

DVD or even VHS and Beta cassettes, the only way a kid could hold onto

or relive the experience of a much-loved film was through action figures,

trading cards, stickers, posters, lunch boxes or the occasional TV rebroadcast.

I have fond memories of going to see this movie with my dad as a six year

old in Staten Island (and yes, it's in my DVD collection). I recently scored the 

full set of 88 trading cards and 22 stickers on eBay and was immediately 

brought back to the excitement of the film, which included the frightening

proposition of being sucked into a massive, lightless space vacuum.

While browsing other items from the movie, I saw several sealed

boxes of wax packs of Black Hole trading cards with excellent graphics... 

I may have to see about adding one of those to my card and sticker collection. 

Vintage Roulette: Odds And Ends

Flea Market Find: 1960s Dixie "Jigger" Cups in their original box.

Below: Two recent eBay scores that I plan to build into a new collage from my home:

First, we have Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in a promotional still from their 1956 film Trapeze.

And secondly, we have Marianna Hill and Robert Forster in the 1969 film Medium Cool.

Below is a dice game from the 1960s called "Bible Cubes".

I snagged this one during a recent Saturday Flea Market Blitzkrieg.

Below is a surprise that my friend Steve brought me after a day of flea marketing…

An immaculate and well-cared for 1960s Sawyer's Viewmaster projector in its original box. 

Every so often I snag another piece of 1964 - 1965 New York World's Fair swag...

This charming glass dish is probably one of the coolest pieces I've found from this event.