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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4487024, member: 16283"]verybrad- Great Thrift store finds ! That's one sad thing about greater Portland,Oregon-Goodwill almost has a stranglehold on the thrift market around here.There's a few smaller ones that don't run each and every nick-knack past the Chief Curator at The Smithsonian like Goodwill does,but I imagine certain areas of the country have less professional Pickers and Shops than Seattle,Portland,SF,LA,NY,Chicago,least I hope so... a guy can dream !</p><p> Always loved Russell Wright,design inspiration guru.Kids,the 'Old Days'-first Dirk Van Erp $10 at a Bay Area junk store, first G. Stickley Billiard Chair $50,somebody's front porch Healdsburg,CA....what a time it was (along with 40-70K houses). Ferlinghetti calls the past-'Pictures of the Gone World-the Coney Island of the Mind. It's all still waiting for us friends,in place we call... 'The Twilight Zone'.</p><p> Maybe in the next life I'll go junkin' with Rod Serling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4487024, member: 16283"]verybrad- Great Thrift store finds ! That's one sad thing about greater Portland,Oregon-Goodwill almost has a stranglehold on the thrift market around here.There's a few smaller ones that don't run each and every nick-knack past the Chief Curator at The Smithsonian like Goodwill does,but I imagine certain areas of the country have less professional Pickers and Shops than Seattle,Portland,SF,LA,NY,Chicago,least I hope so... a guy can dream ! Always loved Russell Wright,design inspiration guru.Kids,the 'Old Days'-first Dirk Van Erp $10 at a Bay Area junk store, first G. Stickley Billiard Chair $50,somebody's front porch Healdsburg,CA....what a time it was (along with 40-70K houses). Ferlinghetti calls the past-'Pictures of the Gone World-the Coney Island of the Mind. It's all still waiting for us friends,in place we call... 'The Twilight Zone'. Maybe in the next life I'll go junkin' with Rod Serling.[/QUOTE]
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