Two more treasures.

I probably could have resisted this item if it were not that they still had the box. This is a "super air velocity" hair dryer by Kenmore. I love several things about this item.
1. It does have the box, which gives you several depictions of how this marvelous item can be used.
2. It is made of pink metal. No plastic on this hair blower at all except the on/off and hot/cold switches.
3. Tonia's father made a makeshift stand for it so he could use it in his shop. I'm not sure what happened to the original stand.
4. It still works.
5. It tells you on the box that it for use with "home permanent wave sets". I'm not sure why I find that amusing. It's just the wording from a different era I think.













This next item I saw on my first trip there, but didn't ask about it until she phoned me Friday morning. I thought about it for two days because I kept rationalizing that I really don't NEED it. But then I really don't NEED much of anything I own, so I guess that's a dumb rationalization.
I'm not sure why I couldn't get this thing out of my mind. I love it's simplicity. As bathroom cabinets go it is pretty basic. It is also all metal. I know we had one somewhere or someone I knew did because as soon as I saw it I "remembered" it. Not this one in particular, but I remember seeing one before. More importantly, I remember opening and shutting one and the first thing I did when I saw it was to open and then shut it. There is something about the sound it makes when you open and shut it that for some reason is very nostalgic to me.
The first picture is a truer representation of its color. The second is just to show the inside. The third picture is to show you the little wire towel hanger at the bottom that can fold up out of the way if you don't want to use it. It's a little rusty here and there, but can be cleaned up without much work. I am going to repaint it the yellow color and use it in my kitchen as a spice cupboard.
I love it that Tonia's dad labeled this above the towel rack with an embossed tape. The label says "hand towel". Over on the post next to this was another towel rack and it was labeled "face towel". I guess he got a little eccentric over the years. He measured his mattress and put a line for the center mark with a permanent marker. Whenever he bought new sheets, he would fold them and use the permanent marker to draw a line to mark the center of his sheet. I guess he wanted to be sure the overhang was even on both sides. He is still alive by the way and 93 years old. The house is being emptied and sold because they had to finally put him in assisted living.

Don't ask me why because I really don't know.

It's probably pretty easy to get that I love old things. I don't know why. I always have. The things I have are not valuable antiques. I don't love them because they have monetary value, if any. I think sometimes I just long for the "easier" times when things weren't so hectic and life didn't travel at the speed of light. Days were long when I was young. We didn't have instant connection to the world and all that is going on around us. When I was young I got my news in the movie theater a lot of the time. There were always newsreels before the movie. It wasn't the latest breaking news. Sometimes it might even be a week or two old.
These days we know what is going on around the world almost immediately after the fact. News is available 24 hours a day. Is it any wonder that we all feel stressed and crowded and overloaded with information?

Here is a little backwards trip into time with the kitchen items that I bought from Tonia. I will do a separate post for the other things.

I had to have this because I always wanted one of those cake pans with the slide-on lid.
This one is a brownie pan or for a small cake, but it will do.



I had never seen one of these. It is a measuring cup/funnel. The
bottom works like a cork so you can fill it with a measured amount,
stir it up if you need, and then pull the cork and let it drop into whatever
container you are filling. I can see many uses for this.





So, yes, I know this is labeled Grandma and Grandpa and there
are four little chicks with names on them that do not belong
to any of MY grandchildren. But the point is...I collect chickens in
my kitchen and so I had to have this. They were happy for me to
give it a home. Their mom was overjoyed at becoming a grandmother
because she thought she wasn't ever going to get grandchildren.



A cookie maker. I have a more modern (plastic) one. I also
have my mom's around here somewhere, but this one was nice
and, actually, I wanted the box. It will go on my shelf with the
other old stuff.





Yes, here we have the Slice-a-way, a 3-way adjustable slicer/shredder
from Popeil. I didn't take a picture of the actual shredder. It's clear plastic
with a blade but it was crooked and I couldn't make it straight. I didn't like
the way it looked crooked. Popeil items were much like "As Seen On TV"
items of today. Picture the Sham-wow guy hawking this!





And finally, another item I never saw before. This is Revel Roasting wrap.
I couldn't get a clear picture showing the whole box. It is long like a box of
heavy duty foil. Actually it's a bit longer than that. It is a roasting film like
the film they use to make roasting bags. Along each edge is a strip of foil to
make it easy for you to wrap your roast or turkey. I love it that this is
"regular size" at 18 inches wide. I wonder if the "non-regular" size is
bigger or smaller. This appears to be from the 50's or 60's. If you look
closely at the picture you can see the foil edge on this side. I will try to
stage it later so I can take pictures of the whole box.