OOPS!…I DID IT AGAIN: CONQUEST OF THE BLUE BIN DUMPSTER DIVER

Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in. The books, magazines and newspapers that is. I don’t want them, I don’t need them, I try to resist them but still they call to me with their bewitching siren song. Save us Larry! Save us from the heap! We are precious and few and long for a home where we will be cherished and cared for. I’ve become a whacked out Mother Hubbard who has so many books he doesn’t know what to do. Yet their titillating, pulpy covers, their elegant penciled dedications, their stunning illustrations and forgotten stories draw me back to the bins. Oh, I love it so!

There’s nothing new to say about the process that I haven’t already chronicled in A DIRTY HABIT REVEALED found here and THE RETURN OF THE BLUE BIN DUMPSTER DIVER found here

So without further ado and another five-spot blown to Hell lets dive in and see what delights I’ve snared this time.

ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH EVERYDAY MAGAZINE, Monday, January 25, 1965

Commemorative section published on the day after Churchill died in the year I was born. I’ve always regretted that our lives didn’t overlap; missed it by this______much.

PAGE 3 A, Monday, January 25, 1965

The Grocer’s wife is a badass, He pointed the gun at Arthur Shtrax, the shop owner, and said, “This is it.” “No, it isn’t,” replied Mrs. Shtrax.

Also, if this were 2018, the little brat who ran away from home would be in the catbird seat and Grandma would be on her way to jail.

Also, Eugene Keel Is Victim – Hoodlum Friends Questioned is sure some refreshingly sensible, 1965 plainspoken truth, isn’t it?

Also, Woodrow Sumrall’s 48th birthday has to rank amongst the worst birthdays ever. Don’t smoke!

ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH FOOD & RECIPES SECTION, Wednesday, February 2, 1972 – GROCERY ADS

Solid American Thinking 1970’s Style: Pringles & Gremlins

Charles Brock’s secretary doesn’t look the least bit amused.

Francis Chevrolet

THE WASHINGTON POST, Tuesday, August 31, 1982 – Ingrid Bergman Obituary

ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT SPORTS, September 29, 1982

Remember way back when Tony Orlando helped lead the Cardinals to the pennant?

Also, I don’t ever recall George Hendrick looking so happy as in this photograph.

ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT, Monday, October 24, 1983

The ramifications of this event are still playing out.

No one seems to talk much anymore about nuclear weapons and the arms race but it used to be a heavy topic. More comforting to keep our heads in the sand I suppose.

I’m pretty sure I had a friend who worked at Boyd’s in Northwest Plaza. Steve, are you out there? Sperry Topsiders were expensive even back in 1983 but you could get a rubber mask with hair at Walgreens for just $3.49. Wear them together!

Speaking of Topsiders, aren’t those the preppiest Secret Service Agent’s you’ve ever laid eyes on? #dressedtokill

Cokehead John De Lorean and fresh Apples. That’s so 80’s.

Remember Sam Cooper?

This seems a teachable moment for Puss as bunny endures some unsolicited and inappropriate touching.

Easy there, Puss.

Oh Puss!

#bunnytoo

Sometimes the cover is all that remains, beautiful in it’s own right..

CAR CRAFT MAGAZINE January, 1969

Chock full of Detroit Muscle!

Everything from music to automobiles had more style in 1969.

Roach & Ed “Big Daddy” Roth

A little something for the gearheads.

Aside from the serial killer community, was there really a market for this? #vandyke

MICKEY SPILLANE NOVELS, 1950’s

Mike Hammer, dames, dolls, page boys and pulp; the kind of books Richie Cunningham and Wally Cleaver would have had hidden under the mattress.

THE PUPPET MASTERS By ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, 1951

FOUR NOVELS, illustrating race relations in the 1950’s

These two are up to something.

A TRIO OF BAD GIRLS

PASSION IN THE PINES By Jack Woodford and John B. Thompson (Doesn’t seem like it should require two dudes to write this one)

Quick! Fetch my pruners!

MORE MURDER MYSTERIES

DARK MADONNA & SAVAGE CAVALIER

“She Traded Her Body For Her Life”

Lusty!

Nothing World War II slips past me.

THE LAST DAYS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH By PAUL ILTON, 1957

Old Testament naughtiness whilst it last.

Government secrets revealed.

RIM OF THE DESERT & CAPTAIN BLOOD

FURY By Albert G. Miller

Every morning after my sister and brother left for school I would settle in and watch Fury with Peter Graves. That time Fury had a hoof caught in the railroad tracks left an impression to this day.

WILDER URLAUB (WILD HOLIDAY) By ROMAN von KURT GUGGENHEIM

BOOKMARK FOUND IN WILDER URLAUB – Sadly, we may never know just exactly what Nancy revealed to Sluggo. But we can speculate.

Or is it?

CARE AND FEEDING OF HOBBY HORSES By EARNEST ELMO CALKINS

Chapter 3. A Hobby Makes You More Interesting to Other People

Chapter 7. Acquiring Things

LIFE MAGAZINE, October 15, 1965 – A variety of ads

The green one on top please.

“Thanks mom, thanks dad! Can I play Fortnite on this?”

Because every kid should experience the disappointment of finding raisins in their pillowcase on Halloween night.

Bras and meatloaf, meatloaf and bras.

Portable entertainment & not so portable

What the tobacco companies failed to mention is that the man in the ad is only 32 years old. Don’t smoke kids!

Way back in 1965 it was quite acceptable to refer to teenage girls as babes in advertisements if it would help sell oats. #quakerleer

I’m adding cocktails with Gig Young to my heavenly bucket list.

“Um, yes, I’m looking for a nice fizzy Radler with either grapefruit or hibiscus that won’t overpower my beet salad… or maybe something with mango?” – A man, circa 116 years later.