A friend of mine alerted me to this flea market that's happening next Saturday at her local community garden. Money from table rentals go to the Clifton Place Memorial garden and you can keep the proceeds from what you unload while spending the afternoon in the garden! Should be fun! The garden located on the corner of Bedford and Clifton place, one block from the Bedford/Nostrand G train. All you need to know is on the sign above.
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9/01/2008
Sell Your Stuff & Help A Community Garden!
A friend of mine alerted me to this flea market that's happening next Saturday at her local community garden. Money from table rentals go to the Clifton Place Memorial garden and you can keep the proceeds from what you unload while spending the afternoon in the garden! Should be fun! The garden located on the corner of Bedford and Clifton place, one block from the Bedford/Nostrand G train. All you need to know is on the sign above.
8/13/2008
Mystery in my closet continues....
Park Slope Plane Crash of 1960 Last month I found a bunch of amazing old photos in my closet, amongst them was is this test strip of images of the Park Slope Plane Crash of 1960!! Yup, two planes crashed down right on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. I am still researching all these photos. This one is the only one that is post-1950 and taken by a photographer named R. Nelson, the rest are all by R. Raffius. I am still trying to decide what to do them all and haven't found much information other than that R. Raffius worked for Keystone Images a company that took photos of exotic locals all over the world.
Japanese Geishas? 
Japanese ships? 
Surfers on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii! Note the absence of hotels! Anyway this is still but a mere taste of the photos that are all so well developed and interesting, I've got hundreds of images. If anyone out there knows of any collectors of this type of thing, send them my way, summer has not been kind financially to F.I.B although everything else is aces!!!
To see more images click here!
To read about just how this all came about, click here!
My closet is looking amazing by the way, still working at it though!
8/28/2007
Note to self: Do not be a pack rat.
The daunting task of clearing out my Grandmother’s packed to the gills apartment in Queens has begun recently.
My parents and I worked non-stop for hours and didn’t even make a dent. I think we all started having panic attacks at the seventh hour when we realized that this could take months. She kept every cancelled check, every receipt, every letter, every postcard, every birthday card and every Valentine. I learned that she had several male Valentine’s in her older years that all seemed to be nuts about her (very sweet). She actually remarried when she was in her 70’s to Francis, a U.S. W.W II veteran of the Normandy invasion whom was also an immigrant to NY from Europe. He was from Lyon, France.
I found drawings I did when I was two years old, maps of the 1964 World’s Fair, programs to every concert she ever went to, egg noodles in a suitcase, cereal boxes in the TV cabinet, newspaper clipping of the Pope, tons of issues of the “Queens Courier” and this!
Merv Griffin passed away the same day as Oma so it was a bit ironic to find this mixed in with all the papers. “Gentlemen” were required to wear a jacket and tie and “Ladies” were to wear dresses in order to attend the show. I wonder why she didn't go?
My parents and I worked non-stop for hours and didn’t even make a dent. I think we all started having panic attacks at the seventh hour when we realized that this could take months. She kept every cancelled check, every receipt, every letter, every postcard, every birthday card and every Valentine. I learned that she had several male Valentine’s in her older years that all seemed to be nuts about her (very sweet). She actually remarried when she was in her 70’s to Francis, a U.S. W.W II veteran of the Normandy invasion whom was also an immigrant to NY from Europe. He was from Lyon, France.
I found drawings I did when I was two years old, maps of the 1964 World’s Fair, programs to every concert she ever went to, egg noodles in a suitcase, cereal boxes in the TV cabinet, newspaper clipping of the Pope, tons of issues of the “Queens Courier” and this!
Merv Griffin passed away the same day as Oma so it was a bit ironic to find this mixed in with all the papers. “Gentlemen” were required to wear a jacket and tie and “Ladies” were to wear dresses in order to attend the show. I wonder why she didn't go?
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