“It took more than 30 years for the creators of Pez candy dispensers to give the little plastic figurines feet, and they never did get hands. But now the long arm of the Pez Candy Co. has reached all the way from Linz, Austria, into U.S. District Court, where it has slapped the tiny faces that [...]
Archive for July 16th, 2009
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Candy Maker PEZ Sues PEZ Museum Over Giant Snowman Dispenser
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Collecting Blues: Collecting Fragile 78 R.P.M. Records in a Fragile Economy
Posted in Antiques & Folk Art, Blues & Jazz, Collectors & Collecting, Popular Culture, Popular Music on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“John Heneghan tugged a large shellac disc from its brown paper sleeve, placed it on a turntable and gently nudged a needle into place. Behind him, in the corner of his East Village apartment, sat 16 wooden crates, each filled with meticulously cataloged 78-r.p.m. records. The coarse, crackling voice of the blues singer Charley Patton, [...]
