posted 11-15-2009 06:04 PM            

Buy, not focusing my attention, on just looking for records, or just saying I would never find anything. I actually did! It has taken me quite a loong time to figure this out. I enjoyed wandering around, and just poeking. Having no destination, or focus on one item. I was able to free my mind, and enjoy myself. Of course having my parents there helped too. We even had a nice dinner at a lovely Italin Resteruant.

For the frist time in a loooooonnnggggg time. I was able to enjoy myself, and find a new hobby. 80's stuff. Finding stuff from my childhood, and growing up in the 80's is really cool. Of course I am looking for the strange an unusal, or unique, but not one spsific item. Instead, I found mutiple itmes. Eevn stuff I did not buy. Like a "V" lunch box. Remember that seris? It's been remade. Or a Knight Rider, or even the Black Hole Lunch Box.

I found a Battle Star Glatica board game from the 80's, and a Teddy Ruxpin toy.

Finding things like this really brings back a lot of good memeoris from rather execiteing decade.

So it was indeed a Great Day!

CHEERS!

Paul

posted 11-16-2009 02:58 PM            

Last week, I picked up some old 45's I remember as a teenager.

Be well,

posted 11-17-2009 04:22 AM         

That sounds indeed like a great day looking at old but interesting stuff. Yesterday's trash is tomorrow's treasure. Not exactly trash what you've been going through but still, it's amazing what people throw away. I remember reading in the paper years ago about a guy going through a trashcan and ending up with a genuine Ching Dynasty vase. True or fiction...I don't know.

And then there's my own story. It should've been a from rags to riches story. Alas, it didn't turn out that way. I was a lad of 15 or 16 and had read in the newspaper about a jeweler who, when opening his car door, laid a package in brown paper on the roof of his car. He got in and drove off with the package still on his car roof. Someone found it and took it to the police station. Turned out to be jewels worth a lot of money. Now, a couple days after I'd read that story I was walking home when -lo and behold, there was a brown paper package right in front of my feet. Quick glance left and right. Darn, a neighbor was looking at me. But I'd found that package and I was going to have it. Just didn't want him to know it. No way was I going to share the contents with anyone. So I pretended to tie my shoe laces, quickly grabbed the package and hid it in my coat. Walked home, went up straight to my bedroom, locked the door and slowly untied the package. Eyes closed. I wanted this to be a real surpise. Yeehaw! I was going to be rich! And I became four dead mice richer that day.

Regards

Taike

posted 11-17-2009 04:53 AM         

quote:

---

Originally posted by analogcontrolfreak:
I'm sure that's not what you were hopeing for?

---

posted 02-13-2010 05:36 AM         

I am building a Pac Man arcade machine for my basement

I brought one of those Namco games that plug into a TV set and have lots of photos of original machines. Should be fun.

click here