The Slatington Marketplace
Route 873 - Slatington, PA
We paid another visit to our new favorite antiques mall a couple of weeks ago. The place is massive, so we only got through about half of it. Here are some of the more interesting oddities that I came across.
Well this will haunt my nightmares for the foreseeable future.
This corner was like a miniaturized version of an independent bookstore. It's the kind of place that I'd want to bring a beanbag chair and a thermos of coffee to chill out for a few hours.
Haunted houses are probably my least favorite subgenre of horror fiction, but for some reason, they're my favorite type of Halloween decoration. The plastic popcorn wall hangings are awesome regardless of the holiday.
The Lime Pine drink on this sign got my attention. It sounds more like a hardwood floor cleaner than a beverage, but I'd still try it. I did a little research and found the recipe in an old newspaper ad.
Lime Pine
First, pre-chill a bottle of King-size Coke. Then dip rim of glass in lime juice and then in granulated sugar, coating heavily. Let sugar dry and fill glass with ice-cold Coca-Cola. Garnish rim of glass with cartwheel slice of lime. A "punch" in a glass. A novel idea. Ideal for a party of 2-3.
Here are the other recipes if you're curious, along with a recipe for the Lemon Log which isn't represented on this sign. Click to enlarge:
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| Santa Cruz Sentinel (December 19, 1962) |
The Candy Cane Jingle with peppermint ice cream looks especially good to me.
The Ben Revere garden gnome will cover a lot of ground in your back yard, but don't expect him to hit for power.
Fun Fact: In the 1950's, Hasbro sold a line of Mr. Potato Head's friends. In addition to Oscar the Orange, the toy company also produced Katie the Carrot, Kooky the Cucumber, and Pete the Pepper. In those days, the package only included the plastic eyes, nose, ears, and other features, and you were meant to plug them into an actual vegetable or piece of fruit from your kitchen. It didn't come with a plastic potato until 1964.
Procter & Gamble produced a series of three Star Wars promotional posters, with original artwork by Ken Goldammer, as a giveaway in the year after the release of the first film. You can usually find these on eBay for less than ten dollars, with some going for as little as three bucks.
This metal wall hanging was in my bedroom when I lived with my mother and stepfather in Nuremberg when I was a kid. I never really cared too much about cars, but I guess it fit into whatever decorating scheme they had in mind.
This is a Videosphere television. JVC produced these from the early 70's to the early 80's. You can find them in the background of a few scenes in Soylent Green, Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, and The Matrix. I've been on the lookout for an inexpensive one since I first learned of their existence to use as a monitor for an Atari 2600, but they usually sell for far more than I'm willing to pay. This one was priced at $795.
This sign caught my eye because my grandfather worked at Spaulding Bakery in Hazleton for many years until it closed the year after I was born.
When I see old packaging at antique stores, I wonder how much money the contents of an average trash bag would go for after a few decades.
