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Garage Sale, Belvidere IL

Rubbermaid totes and laundry baskets are the earmarks for a solid junk sale.  I found this one via my old amigo gsalr.com on a Friday afternoon, way out in this rural area of NW Illinois.  As I perused the crap I could hear rifle report way in the distance, somewhere beyond the seemingly infinite cornfields […]

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Salvation Army, Belvidere IL

I ended up being ‘lucky’ enough to go back to Belvidere four times in just a few weeks and I wouldn’t be surprised if I get another call soon.  On one trip I brought my bike as I had so few tools to bring there was plenty of room in the truck.  I hadn’t planned […]

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Bemidji Burn Out

     I visited Bemidji once before not long ago.  As I returned it was warmer out and again I had some free time.  This would be a recipe for a solid hunt if I didn’t feel like I had already dug pretty thoroughly.  But that is always a lie! You have never dug sufficiently! […]

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The ghosts of barbershop’s past…..

I am fairly confident I have the biggest and/or best collection of barbershop vinyl on the planet.  It started so long ago as it often does, in Michigan.  That state is home to some of the best quartets the world has ever known.  After waiting years and begging, discogs added barbershop as a style which […]

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St. Vincent [Livonia MI]

Ah yes, your typical bombed out St. V’s, a spot I checked out during my brief stay in lovely Livonia.  This is the 25th post tagged for St. Vincent so I guess I’ve been to damn near that many.  But yet after all these years, not much has changed.  And that is fine with me. […]

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Goodwill [Livonia MI]

Maybe I was due for some good fortune.  I wasn’t off to a good start when I saw all the vinyl stacked bookshelf style but I craned my neck and checked them out as best as I could.  But in the final grouping I spied with my little eye a CTI classic (as my eye was, […]