SCRAP
CATALOGUE OF CURIOSITIES
THE SPRING
Vintage Edition
Executive Director...Terry Kochanski Operations Director....Tom Steele, Lisa Ryan, Inventory & Merchandise Manager Terrill Cain, Shift Lead Timothy James, Maintenance & Grounds Manager Robert Haemmerling, Driver & Creative Reuse Specialist Teresa James, Donations Manager Danielle Grant, Programs & Outreach Manager Margarita Lopez, Creative Reuse Specialist Felipe Colina, Marketing and Programs Coordinator William Taylor-Barros, Creative Reuse Specialist Sawyer Arkilic, Creative Reuse Specialist Volunteers: Foote, Jennifer, Maureen, Veronica, Michelle, Rhowana, Tae, Anne-Marie, Megan,Tina, Raven, Barb, Christine and many others. And thank you to our amazing SCRAP Board!
LETTER FROM SCRAP'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Terry Kochanski as a tree in a ballet recital
Author Stephen King wrote, “Sooner or later, everything old is new again”, in reference to his prolific career as a writer. But the same can be said about trends in fashion, politics, and even everyday life. Spring is about rejuvenation, and as we open back up to the world and each other, many aspects of our lives will seem so new yet harken back to days not so long ago. In our Spring Catalogue of Curiosities Vintage Edition we celebrate the nostalgia, whimsy, and humor of the past. What is it about vintage items ... you know ... old photos, Schwinn bicycles, vintage toys? The memories they bring back can be very powerful, like the joy of your first bike ride, the fun of a hula hoop, or the pain and humiliation of being a tree at your ballet recital when your sister was a fairy princess ... ARGGG! But lest I regress, welcome to the Vintage Edition of our SCRAP Catalogue of Curiosities! There is something here for everyone with a chuckle or two thrown in the mix. Many thanks to the Catalogue Creative Director, Danielle Grant, whose satire and whimsy always brings a smile to my face, and our Manager of all things vintage, Lisa Ryan, who was our curator and local authority. Looking at the past with fresh eyes allows us to see the beauty, and enables us to creatively reuse, giving the past a voice in the present. I hope you enjoy!
How to buy things from this catalogue 1. Email Lisa Ryan at lisa@scrap-sf.org 2. Come to SCRAP and view our items in our "Cabinet of Curiosities." **Please note all items are first come, first serve. Purchases can be made over the phone with Lisa. Purchases from this catalgue support SCRAP's depot and our wonderful staff.
Hilda Calendar
$80 9” x 18” 1964 (This version was customized for a local SF business) Duane Bryers' Hilda calendar series, which initially wasn’t expected to do well, was in print from the 1950s through the late 70s. The Regan era did not appreciate Hilda’s playful midwestern milk maid antics and she finally fell out of favor. Amidst the 21st-century body-positive movement, the revival of Hilda imagery has been welcomed with open arms. Here is Hilda jump roping in a field, there she is mischievously crossing barbed wire boundaries. Hilda does what Hilda wants, and we will have what she’s having.
Wawona Mariposa Grove
By Luigi Kasimir $250 Excellent condition; Signed lower center (estate signed) Titled and dated (March 1931) in the plate lower left. 17.5” x 23.5” Image: 11.5” x 1 Luigi Kasimir studied at the Vienna Academy of Art and pioneered the process of color etchings. He traveled and produced artwork in Europe as well as the United States and his work is in multiple museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Wawona Mariposa Grove the viewer is confronted by the enormity of the Giant Sequoias and we’re drenched in the sense of what it must have been like go hiking with John Muir.
The Tintypes
$130 for both Two large full plate tintype portraits of a man and woman 6½ x 8½ inches. Unframed, circa 1860-1870
Here we have two full plate tintypes of a man and woman who, judging by their age, were likely trying to get married and needed to get themselves out there on the market. We encourage you to purchase both portraits and hang them on your wall and tell everyone about how your great grandparents fell in love with them after seeing these pictures of each other.
Mr. Spray
Mr. Spray Silver Edition by Shepard Fairey 11" tall Does not come with original box $200 Mr. Spray was originally created by the artist Shepard Fairey in 2004 as a street-art appropriation of an advertising design from the 1950s. A celebrated contemporary graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding world, Fairey became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his creation of the Barack Obama "Hope" poster. In 2010 Fairey collaborated with StrangeCo to create the rotocast vinyl figure of Mr. Spray, which came in four color editions. The Silver Edition was limited to only 100 pieces and is the rarest of the four.
Designer Wobble Toys
Friends With You/ Wish Come True Designer Wobble Toys by StrangeCo $10 each Created by StrangeCo in 2008 these roundy, fun-faced wobbly toys have weighted bottoms and built-in bell chimes. The Scrap collection includes: Malfi, Coco, Popa, Mr. TTT, and two all-white Fluffy Pop prototypes.
Marilyn Calendar
$25 10” x 17” 1955 Suspected communist Marilyn Monroe is runner up for SCRAP Cover Girl. After speaking out at Arthur Miller’s House Un-American Civil Activities trial, J. Edgar Hoover kept files on her until she died. This vintage calendar is in excellent condition; make it yours and remember--Truman Capote wanted Marilyn to star in Breakfast at Tiffany’s but her agent advised her to turn down the role. There’s a life lesson in there, somewhere.
The Carroll Revue Program
$15 (SF Historical Ephemera) Drag Queens are sacred territory and we wouldn't be caught dead making fun of this highest of art forms. Instead, we will present you with the amazing tale of the Carrol Revue in earnest: The Revue was a California-based traveling troupe of drag artists founded by female impersonator Carroll Wallace around 1954. Involving a number of performers—singers, dancers, and comedians—who took to the stage in a variety of female guises, donning an array of costumes, the Revue was invited all over the world to perform.
Cheesecake Advertising Cards
$15 each 4”x 7” (SF Historical Ephemera) Sex sells. We know it (Hello Hilda) and they knew it in the 1940s. “Up and Cunning” and “Who wants chicken?” These are the timeless and enticing phrases that prefaced the great minds of Madison Avenue.“ I’m a rootin’ tootin’ cowgirl, the others eat my dust. I’m shootin' up the town this fourth to get my man or bust.” If that doesn’t make you want to purchase a scale, nothing will.
The Office Girls
Cardboard display sign $50 Excellent Condition 13 ½” x 19 ½” Fun fact, Peggy Olson’s character from Mad Men was based on the woman who made this advertisement. It’s a true fact in the broadest sense. Now if you’ll please excuse me, I need to troubleshoot an issue with my business machine.
1920s Burroughs Adding Machine
$50 15” X 20” / about 30 lbs
Before there was an “Addo” there was a business machine called the Burroughs. Like Hilda, this thing is big and beautiful and in great condition--not a single key is missing. We invite you to go get out your vest, your pocket watch and your mustache wax and get to ADDING!
IBM Think Sign
$50 5” x 14” wood laminate
Obviously, if you hang this on your wall at home you will be subtly signaling to all guests about your big brain and knowledge of early tech culture. Guys and gals will wonder if you're the next Mark Zuckerberg and you can use it as a natural conversational segue to pitch your new dating app for Mensa members.
$5
Floppy Disk Pin
An encore item from Americana office culture! Before the body-positive movement, DPT thought it would be a hilarious catchphrase to remind us all about our floppy bits. It’s no surprise--this was the 80s, not even Hilda survived.
Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?
$25 17” x 11” 1975-1983 reprint of 1932 original Here we have a vintage Scot Tissue ad from 1932 urging employers to stock bathrooms with Scot Tissue products to prevent turning their employees into radical communists. This artifact renders me speechless.
Avant Garde Magazines
$15 each 1) #11 - 1970 John Lennon Erotic Lithographs 2) #8 - 1969 Picasso’s Erotic Gravures 3) #13 - 1971 Portraits of the American People In circulation from 1968-1971, Avant-Garde magazine is a design triumph. In its second issue, editors were able to print their first reader's letters--we’ll let the feedback speak for itself. "Gentlemen: As a designer, I respect your graphics; as a father, I’m glad I was home to intercept your first issue before it reached my 16-year-old son. Please cancel my subscription."
Rolling Stone Magazines
(1969-1971) Grateful Dead: $40 Michael Jackson: $30 Dylan 1969: $25 Dylan 1971: $25 Sly/Family Stone: $20 John Fogerty: $20 James Taylor: $20 In the past year, Scrap received a wonderful donation of back issues of Rolling Stone Magazine from the great Bay Area music critic and author Joel Selvin.
MORE Rolling Stone Magazines
(1976-1978) Marley - $30 Star Wars - $30 Janis - $30 Patti Smith - $25 Dylan 1978 - $25 Ronstadt - $20 Fleetwood Mac - $20 We hear that in the olden days of print journalism, our ancestors would flip through this colorful document to find out what to listen to.
Large Photo of San Francisco in the 1930s
$50 18” x 11”
Awww, San Francisco in the 1930s. The Barbary Coast community reportedly weathered the depression pretty well thanks to all of the black market shenanigans and police corruption. We had a thriving boos and nightlife scene attracting partygoers from all over the state, which helped the more legitimate industries like restaurants and tourism to shine during that dingy decade. SF benefited from government assistance from the Roosevelt administration--pictured here we see three couples in front of a building sporting a National Recovery Act sign. These couples look like they might be on their way to church at first glance, but that guy all the way over on the left looks like church is just the first stop in his day. Look closely and I think we can agree that that guy is up to NO GOOD.
Cabinet Cards
$5-10 each depending on condition
Cabinet cards are photographs mounted on stiff pieces of cardboard and put in a cabinet. That's it, that's all they are, but at one time everyone was doing it. Anyway, don't have a hallway of portraits in your house? Now you do. As guests pass by on their way to the bathroom, let them marvel at your sepia-toned lineage.
Stanford-Cal 1940 Big Game program
$30 8” x 10½” Excellent condition If you live in Northern California, one thing you come to understand is that there are a certain select few people who believe there’s some kind of deadly rivalry between Stanford and Cal Berkeley. If you have these strong feelings then you need this 80-year-old memento of this “very important” feud.
Golden Bear Cookie Tin
5 ½ X 5 inches $20
"A perfect cookie in a perfect container" is the hubris laden claim on this cookie tin. These must have been in made in a time before Californians stopped eating gluten and sugar. Unsurpassed!
The Wanderers 1975 Zodiac Calendar
by David Alter, Jr. $75 Excellent condition, measures 11” x 17” Includes 12 black and white illustrations of the signs of the zodiac
From the decade of the Zodiac killer we bring you this beautiful Zodiac Calendar designed by David Alter Jr. The 60s and 70s were a time when some of us had the bold idea to shirk traditional religion and try on some ideas from the east, or in the case, the ancient world. "I know!' someone said. Let's divide up the whole swath of human experience and personality into 12 types and project them onto a map of the sky. We'll capitalize on this map and charge people money to divine their inner secrets and life path! This calendar is actually not really doing any of that--it's really more astronomy than astrology. We suggest you acquire this "stellar" object.
The Wanderers Continued
Henry Hintermeister's School Crossing
$20 (Print) 12” x 15” Henry Hintermeister (1897-1970) was a painter and illustrator who painted in the Golden Age of Illustration under the signature Hy Hintermeister. This print “School Crossing” is from his most well-known works often referred to as the "American-themed paintings.” This style of folksy figurative illustration has aesthetic roots in the Social Realism of the 1930s. Relying on grandmas for childcare because we don't subsidize it for working people--that's the American way!
1951 Topps Magic College Football Cards
$5 each
What is there to possibly say about these 1950s college football players without thinking of the movie Rudy and the delicious controversy that occurred when Joe Montana slammed the beloved film. Bay Area’s own Montana implied that when Rudy was carried off the field by his teammates in that iconic scene, the players were more or less “joking.” The internet was set alight with Rudy defenders and headlines admonishing Montana’s commentary including scorching gems like: “Why Joe Montana Should Shut Up and Let the Rudy Legend Live.” Now that's a sports drama we can get into.
Flocked Velvet Movie Wallpaper
$35 28” x 24 feet (8 yds) one roll Circa 1960s-70s Picture this! You have a guest in your home because you can do that because you both are fully vaccinated. Then, they need to go to the bathroom. You send them down the hall, second door on the left. They turn on the switch. BOOOOOM. Your guest is transported back to the golden age of movies where everyone speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent and has crescent moon eyebrows. Your guest can't tell what's real--"is Shirley Temple handing me a martini?" They exit the bathroom and neither of you says anything else about it. You have won the silent bathroom wallpaper feud.
RCA Victor 45 rpm record player turntable top
$30 7” x 10” Not the whole thing, just the top part! Up for grabs is this RCA 45 turntable TOP. Alert. This is just the top we are selling! Why? Because that's how someone gave it to SCRAP and we don't have a lot of control over these things, so calm your jets. What we're thinking is that the lucky winner can place this on the wall or on a tabletop, like the sculptural object that it is. You can either a) remind your guests of how old they are if they know what this is or b) trick them into thinking that you care about the analog byproducts of music from the 20th century. It's a win-win either way!
1972 BOAC Land Cruise Holiday Bag
$25 Unused condition
Original Advertisement Copy: “BOAC’s latest idea for an inclusive vacation is the "land cruise”. With it, you enjoy the freedom of the open road touring Europe in your own hotel on wheels. You fly to London, where you take delivery of a motor-camper; or a car with a traveltrailer/caravan, or a car or a minibus with tenting equipment. Do you think Southern Europeans loved this idea? Were French bed and breakfast owners and Italian pension managers super excited about this big new development in European tourism? Asking for a friend.
1920s Japanese pattern instructions
$10
Cultural exchange! Trading ideas back and forth! That's what globalism is all about. Here we see how Coco Chanel's early designs for the new modern woman were so fascinating the patterns themselves made it all the way to Japan. Hark! No woman the world over wants to wear a corset or any other type of restrictive undergarment. That trend flew on the latitude faster than you can say internet superhighway. Thank you, female fashion designers and seamstresses of planet earth.
Marbled End Papers
$3 each All 15 for $40 6”x9” Parting is such sweet sorrow, but now it's time for us to take our leave. We end on marbled endpapers, the kind that were used to bookend the stories of yore. With this timeless and beautiful offering, we bid our SCRAP audience adieu. Until the next curious assortment of delights! Good luck. . . and Good night!