Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
Todd Sheffer is a graphic designer with a dream job. He works at Hake’s Americana in York, PA, where he is surrounded by pop-culture memorabilia every day. This really is like a kid working in the candy store. I honestly don’t know if I could handle that kind of job, because my entire salary would [...]
Karen brown recently started selling vintage books on Etsy, where her shop is named “RetroFirsts.” Her main focus is something near and dear to my heart, vintage first editions. Over a span of three months, her shop has evolved from selling somewhat ordinary first editions – with a few select gems interspersed – to some [...]
Bill Cooper lives in Vancouver, B.C., and has been collecting “frisbees” since the late 70′s. Bill currently has 7,280 frisbees, and his collection is growing every day. He is no stranger to eBay, which has facilitated over 475 transactions for his flying toy habit. Bill’s collecting areas are primarily focused on topics such as alcohol (175), [...]
Over 300 million flying disc toys, commonly referred to as frisbees, have been sold in the last 60 years, and there are plenty of rare collectible discs in that mix. Philo Copenhagen is a full time frisbee collector, designer, and “suburban killing machine” based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has assembled an amazing collection of frisbees [...]
Desi Scarpone works in the Motion Picture Industry in Los Angeles, and he has a serious collecting habit. Desi is the leading expert on vintage board game collecting, and has written two books on the subject. I asked him a few questions about his collections, and here is what he had to say… How did [...]
