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October 16, 2009 |
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Nice Dickey!
FOUND by Merrickb
in River West, Chicago, Illinois
Found this 18" x 24" poster in an alley near my house. It had been rained on and was starting to disintegrate.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
nd it seemed that the subject matter, like the medium itself was disintegrating rapidl
Uncle Bob was always the one to keep current with fashion trends. Here he is caught in the time period when sweaters and dickeys were on the way out but drooping pants were on the way in.
Here is the rocket scientist who could not help wondering how all the garbage ended up at his feet. The wind maybe. No wonder Shania Twain was not impressed.
At first I was really hoping that this American Apparel wannabe model had just come across the red dickey while cleaning out the basement and put the thing on because it was easier to explain to his kids that way.
But the image was made into a poster? Must have been done on purpose (why, oh why?).
Who switched the American Apparel ad with the Find of the Day?
Roger Daltry, in a really bad moment.
(best picture EVER)
Roger Daltry, in a really bad moment.
(best picture EVER)
Talk about 'Where the Wild Things Are'!!!
Haul
Omigod, I WANT THAT SWEATER!! And I'd LOVE to know what albums are scattered about. At a yard sale last week, I picked up a bunch of Elvis on vinyl for a buck apiece! Whoo. Most of the rest of it was Mitch Miller sing-alongs and stuff. (pass)
Also curious... the photo was blown up to poster-size? But WHY?
Merrick B, Good for you for rescuing this guy. Did you keep the original? or send it to Davy/Found? (want it.)
There's something about him that's cool enough to get him added to my coolest Found Foto Folk EVER list:
Man on bike, Girl in Chair, First Job, Stardust, Baby on a Blanket ("solar baby"), Gun Child, Happy Couple, 70's Birdie Girl and Baby Blues.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, G-Man!! (damn, you're gettin' old.)
@Terrie-Is-So-Very in totally-unique-ville > WINS!
"OVCOARSE!!"
umm, so, who came up with the name for that particular article of clothing?
Nice, Dickey!
Maybe the dickey is really a turtleneck bib.
I have an awful feeling that I am somehow, in some way, related to him.
My Great Aunt Myrtle used to send us Christmas gifts that weren't very cool or useful. But as a child I always opened the gifts full of hope. One year she sent me a dickey. It wasn't a turtle-neck dickey, though. It was supposed to look like a blouse. It had a peter pan collar and a few buttons. Really stupid and uncool. But it was a nice thought. That was the last gift I ever got from her.
And.. btw.. someone made a POSTER out of THIS???
@Retro Fanatic -- wow, the King for a buck? I wanna find yard sales like you...
No one mentioned the weights. This guy isn't just a snappy dresser, he keeps himself in shape too!
That logo on the box! Haven't we seen that before on another find? Can anyone remember it? It's driving me wild trying to remember which find it was...
When this find first appeared for me, I could only see from his nose up. He looked a bit like Donald Trump to me.
That's a paper box, that reams of paper come in. (Sorry, I can't remember which company.) These are common anywhere there are lots of copies--- universities, corporate offices, copy shops. (Where they sometimes make posters too.) This might have been made to gently rib the subject or perhaps out of spite.
That's the Boise Cascade Logo.
Boise Cascade Corporation, was established in 1957 as the result of the merger between Boise-Payette Lumber Company of Boise and the Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington.. Headquartered in downtown Boise, Idaho (let's make it noisy in boise!)
Ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. (factoids courtesy of good ol' Wiki.)
@ Runs with scissors ... sadly, those weights were used to scrunch the albums down into the cardboard boxes this guy was using to carry his country's recorded musical heritage to the new country. None of the sound recordings made the trip un-damaged. He's spending his dotage pasting together tiny WAV files he's making off each part of each phonograph record's long spiraling groove.
sexy bahaha
Alright, this is bizarre. Prior to viewing this picture my only proof that that garment actually existed was The Venture Brothers. Can anyone tell me what the point is? Is it just so you don't have to wear two sets of sleeves? And is wearing two sets of sleeves really that oppressive?
I used to have one of those! And it was red! You wore it under a V-neck black pullover to make people think you were wearing a red polo-neck underneath. Why? I don't know. Probably couldn't afford a red polo-neck. Hang it, I already had a black one.
This would be around 1964, which would tie in with this guy's LP collection although his droopy jeans look later to me.
John Elway .. Is that you??
In some places, this is a real swinger.