Another Junkie...

It all started 52 years ago, when I left Southern California, moving to the Pacific Northwest, driving a VW Bug with all my worldly possessions aboard.

Now older, wiser, and certainly more heavily encumbered with stuff...and watching the Reaper make her rounds among family & friends...I'm resolved, as we all must eventually, to blow it out, before I win my race.

A favorite uncle, Dad's older brother, was a USAAF MSgt in the Pacific Theater, and landed in Japan within days after the surrender. I was then not quite 5. He stayed until the end of the GHQ era, leaving in early 1952. During his time there he 'acquired' an enormous number of Japanese treasures, which he brought back in 27 aluminum GI footlockers, among other containers. Many of these he eventually disposed of, leaving a still substantial number and variety to my father. When Dad died, I got what was left, a bit of which I still possess. Uncle Leonard laid the solid foundation of my appreciation for Japanese art & craftsmanship, and Asian items of all types in general.

I gotta knock off this monologue tonight. I hope to resume it soon.

 

Good to have you aboard mate

I can tell you're a goodin

 

welcome

 

Welcome

 

Welcome @wlwhittier , it feels like you've already been here for years.

Looking forward.

 

Welcome!

 

Ha! I found this card among some of Leonard's stuff.

The penciled underlining and such are as found...original to the era.

More soon, I hope.

 

That card has to be a rarity. Welcome to the nuthouse... forum, that's it. Forum.

Dare we hope some of those almuminum trunks survived too?

 

Yes, Evelyn...tho' not un-pillaged.

I have 3 of them. All are filled with my weird stuff...and none have seen light within for at least a decade.

 

At this point those may be worth more than the stuff Uncle shipped home, Japanese art having tanked a while back.

 

Perhaps...but their value to me is ver' large, owing to the good service they provide in having concentrated their contained goods, thereby reducing considerable clutter onna floors hereabouts!

 

Thanks, thats most generous!

 

I should note that the face in my avatar is me, Jan '48; I was 7 years anna couple months. I love that boy.
I haven't forgotten the promise to continue my introduction. Soon enough...