My Mommy Cleaned Out My Closet!

[jmaass]

My Mom was cleaning out the closet in my old bedroom just prior to my 48th (uggh) birthday last week, and brought a box full of stuff that she found there.

Most were Amateur Radio magazines, some radio licence manuals, a FORTRAN book and Technical Writing text from my college days, a pristine copy of a "DECSystem-10 Macro-10 Assembler Programmer's Reference Manual" from my job while in college), and some (empty) slide holders from when photography resulted in bits of colored plastic in a paper square.

Also, a few "lost treasures".

My long-lost copy of the 1977 "Saturday Night Live: Host Francisco Franco" book, a collection of reprints of first-year SNL scripts with photos and hand-written notes. Includes the never-aired "Placenta Helper" script (surprisingly, the censors said "no&quot. Long out of print, and something I have mentioned on occassion in the years since I misplaced it!

Some of my 1968 Superman, Flash, and Batman comic books! Unfortunately, I never had many, and read the ones I had. There are three, though, that are in very good condition, and a quick Google search suggests they might be worth $20-30 each (dealers asking $40-$50)!

Still missing is my complete collection of Model Rocketry Magazine from the late 60's. It *was* complete: I found two stray issues here last year, and sold each for ~$20 each! Did anyone else do competition Model Rocketry (from ex-NAR 11711).

I have no doubt that as my Mom digs deeper, she'll find more archaological debris from my youth in the lower levels.

[SiG Lady]

A couple or so "save 'em" items from MY archeological debris:

>>Instructional book on Autocoder for the IBM 1401 (remember IBM cards...?)

>>The Zap Comics "69" issue--MINT condition.

>>Lots of Psychedlic (SFO) concert mailers (postard format)--UTTERLY MINT condition.

[EricW]

Rocketry?!

[super Geek Mode ON]

Woo Hoo!!  I used to have some big fun with my Dad doing that.  We had THE setup in our little town.  No competition though, it was all too far away back then.   I made a mega-igniter from a motor-cycle battery and a bunch of old airplane parts that looked really professional.  I'll bet I've got $100 worth of engines left to burn up too.