The Gems of Sharpless: September 10, 2014
-Fresh vegetables. One does not see that very often at Sharpless.
-Arrowheads.
-You know, I have no clue what these are. My best guess is they are coffee tables.
-Comfortable and not ugly. I sank so low in the cushion that I thought I was going to fall into a different dimension.
-An Alf doll.
-A whole bunch of official Kentucky Derby glasses, dating back to at least the early-eighties.
-The child on the front of this box looks a little freaky.
-An old school rotary telephone with the home number at the center (I blurred it out). On the underside was the purchase date, 12/1/83, from Northwestern Bell. Though it is no longer clear in this version of the picture (the resolution deteriorated when I saved it for the web), the silver sticker reads, “Property of Northwestern Bell. NOT FOR SALE.” Printed on the white sticker is, “Bell System Property.”
-A Schmidt’s beer figurine.
-Ronald McDonald and Burger King stuffed dolls.
-A cannon bottle holder.
-Whoa! The seven-ounce Budweiser bottle was interesting, but the Red Dog bottle caught my eye. I am not sure if Red Dog is brewed anymore (the BEST BY date on the bottle was sometime in March 2002), but it seemed to be a big hit back in the nineties. The television commercials, though not epic or memorable, stamped the beer’s name in my mind.
-Somebody was into bridge. Big time.
-Wait. The New Monkyees?
-Elementary school chairs.
-Coralville’s old animal control box.
-Arrowheads.
-You know, I have no clue what these are. My best guess is they are coffee tables.
-Comfortable and not ugly. I sank so low in the cushion that I thought I was going to fall into a different dimension.
-An Alf doll.
-A whole bunch of official Kentucky Derby glasses, dating back to at least the early-eighties.
-The child on the front of this box looks a little freaky.
-An old school rotary telephone with the home number at the center (I blurred it out). On the underside was the purchase date, 12/1/83, from Northwestern Bell. Though it is no longer clear in this version of the picture (the resolution deteriorated when I saved it for the web), the silver sticker reads, “Property of Northwestern Bell. NOT FOR SALE.” Printed on the white sticker is, “Bell System Property.”
-A Schmidt’s beer figurine.
-Ronald McDonald and Burger King stuffed dolls.
-A cannon bottle holder.
-Whoa! The seven-ounce Budweiser bottle was interesting, but the Red Dog bottle caught my eye. I am not sure if Red Dog is brewed anymore (the BEST BY date on the bottle was sometime in March 2002), but it seemed to be a big hit back in the nineties. The television commercials, though not epic or memorable, stamped the beer’s name in my mind.
-Somebody was into bridge. Big time.
-Wait. The New Monkyees?
-Elementary school chairs.
-Coralville’s old animal control box.