1. "Don't Throw Anything Away!"
Posted by Edisto on Jan-8th-03 at 12:33 PM

(My husband would say this topic is also my motto.)  For Christmas I got a wonderful item.  (I must have been really good last year.)  It's a "Yellow Kid" doll from the early Outcault comics and contemporary with them.  It still has its original crepe-paper gown and even part of the original box.  I have it displayed under a dome, and I was looking on eBay for an original graphic to display with it.
One item I found was an 1897 "Yellow Kid" gum wrapper.  The current bid is $800!  (Maybe I'll just look for a reproduction graphic.)

(Message last edited Jan-8th-03  12:40 PM.)

I often look around my house and think (after watching Antiques Roadshow) "Someday this will all be valuable to SOMEONE"

The kicker is tho, NOT in my lifetime!

I did find an old stick of "BEEMAN'S" gum.
Is that worth anything?

Wasn't that supposed to be a remedy for dyspepsia Kat?

I don't know.  Is that licorise?
It was a flavour our mom liked.  EEWW.  I don't know if they still make that gum?

To give you too much info:
I was creating a "Moulie Drawer" in the kitchen by emptying out everything from when 7 people lived here, and now have a mostly empty drawer.  The stick o gum was next a used up, dried up little pack of soy sauce.  (WHERE does the soy go, anyway?)

I remember seeing "The Yellow Kid" in a book of the history of comics years ago.  Little bald headed kid running around in what I assume was a long yellow nightshirt?  Don't remember what the premise of the comic was supposed to be, was he like the voice of reason? 

I think he was the voice of MONEY!  That odd-looking nightshirt always had a logo on the front, and the logo was often advertising that Outcault sold for various products.  There's a neat Yellow Kid website that shows a lot of the cartoons and other items.  (Don't have the link at hand, but it can easily be found in a search.)Apparently the Yellow Kid was a minor character in some of Outcault's panels until the public took a liking to him and he was expanded into the first comic superstar.  Outcault, incidentally, was a marvelous artist.  Some of his stuff is downright gorgeous.

Don't post any pictures from it Susan- Phart might obscond with them and they'll wind up on ebay...

I really like that nickname.  So phitting...

  Kash, you know me too well!  You made my morning.  Had to post one for the people out there who don't know who The Yellow Kid is.



Ooooo, I know, we can start a rumor for our Phriend and say that The Yellow Kid was Lizzie's favorite comic strip to read in the Sunday funnies.  Evil, hunh? 

scary, Susan, the Yellow Kid-scary.The type of thing you'd see while coming out of anaesthesia-right Bob?

Yeah, he is kind of weird looking.  It made me wonder if he was the model for Charles Shultz' Charlie Brown?  You know, the big, round, bald-headed kid always wearing that yellow shirt?

Beemans gum, mmm!  It was actually flavored w/ pepsin, and kept on hand for tummy aches.  Black Jack gum was flavored w/ licorice and Teaberry was flavored w/ wintergreen.  All three of these gums were made at one point by Adams/Addams; not sure of the spelling.  Made in Canada, I think.

It disappeared from the scene in the 60's maybe, but abt. ten years ago it made a "holiday appearance" for several years in a row.

Alas, the gum was NOT THE SAME.  Original Beemans had a very soft texture & held flavor a while.  The new stuff didn't and it was a stiffer texture.  Not worth the sore jaw I got chewing it.

I didn't realise I knew so much abt gum....perish the thought it be knowledge of something important, huh?

You all have a PHary nice weekend.

That kid looks more like the forerunner of the comic strip character "Henry". As a boy I had comic books with Henry.  Believe it or not it's still published in some newspapers.

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/henry/aboutMaina.php

I just recently saw a "Henry" strip in a newspaper I picked up on a trip down south.  The mention of that strip reminds me of something that happened in the 1950s.  My Grandfather, Bonnie Rich, (yes, I said my grandFATHER was named Bonnie) was a big fan of Henry.  I had very little money in those days (like now), and was casting about for something to give him for Christmas.  For a year, I collected the daily and Sunday strips.  Then at the end of the year, I selected a group that I thought were particularly interesting and pasted them into a scrapbook, which I titled, "The Best of Henry."  The piece de resistance was that I wrote to the guy who drew the strip (Carl Anderson had died by that time, and someone else was doing it).  That wonderful man sent me a great history of the strip, plus a large hand-drawn picture of Henry going over his Christmas list.  It was autographed to my Granddad.  I think it was one of the nicest presents I ever gave anyone!  When my Granddad died, I got the scrapbook back and still have it downstairs in my bookshelves.

My stick of gum could be from the sixties.
I'll keep it then, though it smells like pepper after three decades in that kitchen drawer.
That drawer was where all the ketchups and extra soy, and packets of salt & pepper you never asked for were shoved.

BTW:  Zoe--you were building a house?  Did you finishe the special bathroom?  Any photo's of that room?

That's a wonderful story, Edisto! 

I didn't know where to put this so here it is:

My area of the county was just annexed in October.
I had gone the longest period in my life without a Library Card!
It was since April when my downtown Orlando card expired, so I decided to wait until annexation to join the new little City Library.  Only new to me!  It had been there a while!  In fact the sign said 100 years?
Anyway, I went straight to true crime to assess the situation.
Pretty darn GOOD!
3 Lizzie books on the shelf  (Would've been BETTER if they were checked out)...but they had Spiering, Brown & Lincoln.  [I know, I know...but ya gotta start somewhere...whatever gets ya hooked, is what I say!]
They also had 2 Jack the R.
AND "BEYOND BELIEF", my favorite true crime book on the planet.
All in all a decent little library!

But do you have a County Library System with more listings?

I got ANNEXED!
P'O'd me OFF!
I voted NO.
I never get my vote.
Now the City superceeds the County.
But they do have Inter-Library loan.

You know what I got by being annexed?
It totally suits this thread title!
I walked out front one day after Christmas and there, unrequested, was a HUGE dark prison-green plastic Garbage Pail on wheels!
I'm NOT using that.
So far that's what I get for my property taxes to now be diverted to the city.
It was promised that we would get cash back, not a garbage pail/trunk !

Ah....The bathroom...elsewise known as a work in progress.  It is coming along slowly but surely.  If I didn't have to work 3 part time jobs for a living, I just might have the whole house decorated by now.  I've been trying to spend at least one afternoon or evening on just the bathroom each week.  The big problem is I'm still turning things up that I want to use in there.  At that point I end up rearranging the wall hangings, etc.  Just recently picked up (ebay) the Chad Mitchell Trio's ... Lizzie Borden.  At the moment it's in the curio cabinet.  It sure is a fun project, tho.

Sounds like you spend a lot of time in there, and plan on spending more?
Hmmm, why a bathroom?
(I'm being silly...don't mind me...but still a valid question?)

Is there anyway that you can post progress pictures?  I would like to see your bathroom project.