Can you even fathom the inhuman restraint it took for me to not take these beautiful, new, still in original packaging toys and action figures home with me to add to my ever growing man-child nostalgia collection?
If you aren't following "thejunkpirate" on Instagram, you are missing out on all sorts of awesomely composed pictures of strange and interesting crap. Like these:
If you don't have access to Instagram because you're still using a flip phone, then I feel bad for you.
Sorry I haven't posted any new blogs recently but somebody donated two big, plastic bottles of Wolfschmidt Vodka and I don't really remember what happened after that.
Whether you need need to spin some classic 45s at the local hop, or your looking for a way to create a sophistocated atmosphere for the "item-check room" at you latest "benefit" event, nothing beats a classic beige #825 Fisher-Price Portable Record Player.
But if your in a bit of pinch and no beige model is available (and good luck finding the rare blue and white one), this Sesame Street variation will cover for you.
Great for playing Sesame Street songs, like this one where a drug dealer tries to sell Ernie and "O" for a nickel.
One of my favorite toys from my childhood, the Fisher-Price Movie Viewer. And we got 2 of them!
Just pop in a cartridge (usually Sesame Street but this time we have the animated Spider-Man) and crank the advancing wheel. Want to watch it in slow-mo or reverse? No problem.
I used to watch the Sesame Street "size" reel on a loop for hours.
Awesomely, and yet sadly, complete skateboards are not an uncommon donation here at the Junk Store. We probably get over 10 a year, and that doesn't include all those crappy plastic-truck toy store generics. We get so many, we actually sell them to customers!
We get the really ancient clay wheelers, your bright orange banana boards, your mid-80s fat boys (often with rails and copers and such), your early 90s small-wheel brittle boards, those shop graphics and blanks, and your modern street set-ups. We even have a flat-rail stashed behind the dumpster for some lazy Sunday sessions. And oh how I wish I took some photos of the time Big Merl and Top Cat built a quarterpipe up the side of the loading dock using scrap wood. We told the boss it was a ramp for the dolly.
So here is a mere sample of the many boards that have gotten me to the deli and back over the past couple of years. I keep a constantly rotating collection of about 7 boards in the Sorting Room (even though I'm the only skater working at the Junk Store these days) that we have just in case a gnarly curb sesh pops-up unexpectedly.
Such a sweet AntiHero graphic. Probably late 90s
Think Drehobl from probably 1994.
The Battle Wagon
Unused post-Rocco World complete
And I'll end it with traditional "Rounded Bolts with Washers" hardware set up.
I don't know where this large, framed band portrait came from or who these well dressed swamp rockers are, but I can speak with 100% certainty that they kick ass.
A band with such solid taste in both photo location and choice of hats just has to be good.
If anybody can provide definitive identification on this band, perhaps with a youtube link to one of their songs, you will win a free copy of the latest issue of Junk Pirate zine, postage paid!
All other pieces of fine artwork can now be burned or otherwise disposed of in some over-the-top manner because the greatest single piece of Junk Store art has arrived...
Now here is something. The tail portion of a vintage bomb. For real.
It's hollow and seems to have been used as a flower box in someone's garden for the past several decades, so there was a lot dirt and crud in there. Nevertheless, it sold for mucho bucks in a matter of minutes after it hit the sales floor. We should have asked for muy mucho bucks.
I took this picture with the paint can in there to give you a relative size reference. This bomb was big and heavy.
I'm also proud of my fortitude in not using the phrase "Da Bomb" anywhere in the text of this post. Especially the title.
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