Other People's Photos: Barracks Life

No Cash Value

Just a small sampling of the multitude of coinage in the Junk Pirate Arcade Token Collection.

Traction Jackson

And a bonus vintage version for the Junk Pirate Archives:

Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire

It's always good to have a leaky, vintage Flame Sprayer nearby for such common Junk Store tasks as:

Thawing Train Switches

Burning Rubbish

and Disinfecting Poultry Houses

Rise From Your Grave

 Holy shit! Sega Genesis game system complete in the box, with extra games and a second controller (cause Sega only package one controller with their system)!

This one is even from the pre-Sonic days when it was bundled with Altered Beast! It's donations like this that make the hundreds of hours of sorting disgusting used food packaging worth it.

"Welcome To Your Doom"

Not A Crime

It's about to get all Street League up in here!

Table Radio graphics Party from GE

While we're celebrating awesome old screenprinted boxes...

Mr. Peanut visits the Junk Store

One of the greatest vintage screenprinted boxes of all time.

It's your boy Mr. P-Nut.

By The Power of GreySkull!

I Have The Power!

Wizard Dri-Cube

Ice in Cans. 

They were way ahead back in the day.

Spooky the Reuse Ghost

Happy Hallowe'en

An all-time favorite reuse art project finally gets it's time to shine. It's Spooky, the Reuse Ghost.

Made from wire, a styrofoam ball, some google eyes, and stretchy fabric, this Halloween ornament was a favorite of ours. It kicked around the Junk Store for many months, repeatedly going missing and then being found on the floor somewhere in increasingly more dilapidated and dirty condition. I haven't seen Spooky in many years, but we'll always remember him fondly.

Spider-Mania vs. Horror Reptiles

Halloween is coming, so get out those cheap ass Junk Store via Dollar Store decorations...

This "Spider-Mania" package should be celebrated all year round. That crazy hag in the big blue t-shirt is just so awesome! Is she caught in a big spider web, or is she queen of the spiders?

I don't want to get a technical here, but I do believe that spiders are in fact arachnids and not reptiles. Either way, I am now referring to all spiders, nay, all spiders and insects as "Horror Reptiles".  I encourage you to do the same.

Skull Shelf

Skull Shelf.
Pretty self explanatory.

Junk Pirate Art Installations: Dark Side of the Window

If you're in the neighborhood, take a stroll down 40th and check out the latest window display at the Junk Pirate Headquarters. 

This psychedelic keyboard supertrip is as over as the summer of love, but since you didn't get to groove on it while it was happening (and even if you did), here it is. I was there, Man.

Artist, The Game

Artist, The Game.

Where everybody is a loser.

Viva La Tienda Basura

A delightful junk store painting of what appears to be Che Guevara neck deep in flames, perhaps burning in hell.

They might tell you to learn to paint, but I say "Fight the power, Man."

Ticket To Ride

The Jammer recently came up on a fat sack of partially used BART train tickets.

With remaining balances of anywhere from .15 cents to nearly 5.00 bucks on each ticket, we're talking a total value of several hundo once consolidated!

Score!

Update: The jokes on us. The Jammer went deep into the bowels of BART to find that office that will consolidate your tickets only to discover there is not a cent on any of them. 

Cock O' The Walk

This animation cell from came framed under glass, and the donators said that when they attempted to get it restored, some charlatan actually ruined it, so now they were donating it to us.
I looked at animation cell and could immediately tell that is was the back of the cell that was being displayed under the matt. Hand drawn animations are colored from the back so it just was all color fills without any of the details or outlines. I opened the frame and flipped it and here you go:

You can see that the restorer did do a shit job, but mainly just the yellowing and fading on the chicken girl's white fill. Otherwise this is an awesome piece of rare Depression-era Disney animation.
Thousands of these hand drawn and hand colored cells were created for every animation from that era. Nearly all of these cells (perhaps except from some of the popular feature films, and even then) got destroyed.

A little research (aka reading the back of the frame and then doing an internet search) revealed that this is a cell from Disney's "Cock O' The Walk", a Silly Symphony from 1935. It's on youtube, embedded at the top of this post.

Knight Rider Board Game

This 1982 Parker Brothers gem comes to you complete.
Best opening theme in television history:

Libros de Educacion

Loving the screenprinted covers of these Spanish language educational books.
If you want more awesomeness on your phone on the regular, follow my Instagram account at "thejunkpirate".

Space: 1999 - The Moistener(?)

The past never seemed so futuristic.

No idea what this thing is supposed to be. It's like a ink pad without the ink. I guess it is a promo moistener. That makes no sense.

...or Hardly Working

If the customers we serve wanted me to get off my ass and help with with their donations and questions and such, then they shouldn't donate working portable DVD players.

Quadraphonic Masterpiece

Introducing: the most awesome portable cassette stereo you have ever seen.

Other People's Photos: Depression Era Beefcake

Nothing But The Code

Anybody who has had the privilege a glancing into the Black Out Closet of the Sorting Room this past year or so could not have ignored the shelves and shelves dedicated to hoarding a particular book... the most commonly donated junk store book there is...

Oh yeah, we've assembled nearly 100 copies of The Da Vinci Code in a little over a year. Welcome to the secret society dedicated to the protecting the sacred knowledge of the Junk Store.

No less than six different versions of Da Code. Two sizes of hardcover, and four unique paperbacks. These are all American releases. 

If reading hurts your brain, you can still follow the adventures of Robert Langdon via audio book. Three version on cassette, plus a CD pack.

Plus books about The Da Vinci Code. The Da Vinci Code Decoded (also in audiobook form), and a Christian book all about how the theories brought forth in this work of fiction are, in fact, bullshit. Take that Dan Brown.

10 different Da Vinci Codes in all (plus the books about The Code). With a new copy or two (usually of the hardcover or smallest paperback) being donated every week, we are up to our armpits here. And now you can be too...

Nothing But The Code, a Junk Pirate window installation, is happening at Book Zoo in Oakland starting on Friday September 7th (why, that's tonight!) and on view until Sunday, or while supplies last.
Mandatory FREE copy of The Code with any purchase all weekend.

Join me tonight around 7pm while we project the Ron Howard film version and drink beer while trying to plot how to wipe out that evil Priory of Scion... or are we trying to protect the Priory?
I really should read this book someday.

M500 Polaroid ID Camera

Now here's something someone other than me could probably do something interesting with...

The Polaroid M500 ID Camera. It comes in a monstrously bulky case with desktop mount, two packs of expired 669 film, and some other metal crap, and a lot of wasted space filled with foam.

Just plug this behemoth into an outlet (or more likely an extension cord because the power cable attached to the camera is only 10 inches long), load up some of that awesome Polaroid film where you have to peel the two sheets apart, and it's time for some action. 

The most unique part is that you can take 4 instant photos on one piece of film. You can set it to take four of the same picture, two pictures of two, or four different pictures. It also has a flash and even a primitive exposure setting system. 

Here, Hans agreed to model so we can demonstrate just how gorgeous these photos can be:

Unlock the Mystery

September 7th, 2012 at Book Zoo

Error

I apologize to anyone looking through the older posts on the Tales From the Junk Store blog who noticed that basically every image is not loading. I have a large team of monkeys working in 8 hour shifts around the clock to get all the images back up.
Seriously, all the pictures from the beginning until mid-2010 (about 200 posts) have to be found and replaced by hand. And these monkeys aren't really easy to train.

So, to prevent this type of thing from ever happening again, a nice gentleman who lives behind the storage lockers across the street sold me this premium internet server...

Brown Rice

Meanwhile, on the Games shelf...

5 of the many, many, many types of Monopoly that we see everyday here at the Junk Store.

Classics: Viking Booze

I figured I would end this dazed week of drug-induced donation madness with a classic pic from the Junk Store Archives... the Swedish Booze set.

This photo comes from long ago and is the earliest record of a booze donation to the Junk Store. Apparently I didn't know how to focus a camera back then.

So, I hope you enjoyed getting faded with me this past week. Keep on donating your unwanted inappropriate consumables to your local thrift store and always designate a driver.

Flesh of the Gods

After the intensity of a triple threat of pills, drank, and liquid morphine (as seen in the previous posts), this image of a rare book about shrooms seem pretty lightweight.

Still a cool book image worth posting, though.

Ease the Pain

Morphine?!?
Really? Someone donated Morphine?!?

I enjoy the jovial nature of all these drugs posts, and a forgotten roach in a bottom of a donation of markers will give me a smile, but, come on! An unopened bottle of liquid morphine?!? Get it together, people.

Syzurp

And while we're recklessly ingesting expired habit-forming drugs that weren't prescribed to us, pass me a styrofoam cup...

Generic for Loaded

The weekend might be over, but we aren't going to work today because we just took a handful of slightly expired narcotic pharmaceuticals.

No kidding, someone included some Percocet and Norco pills in there stapler and paperclip donation. Thanks, buddy.

I don't do drugs, so I immediately gave these to the Jammer, who, I assume, delivered them to the police for safe disposal. 

Whip It Good

You could use this sealed NO2 cartridge and dispenser to make up some delicious whipped cream topping.

Or you can do like the Jammer and turn the sorting room into your own private parking lot at a Grateful Dead show.