I’ve collected several things over the years: lambs (my family calls me Mary, ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ — get it?), thimbles (I swallowed a Monopoly thimble when I was 5 and it became a family joke — I have an odd family), books (OK, that’s more of an addiction than a collection), and postcards.
My postcard collection, which is no more, was probably my favorite. My parents let me display them on my bedroom ceiling. By the time I left for college, half of the ceiling was covered in postcards. Getting them down was torture. I can’t tell you how many times I wished for one of those gigantic cartoon magnets to pull all the thumbtacks from the ceiling … My youngest sister collects postcards, too, although she keeps them in a photo album. I guess all the thumbtack holes in the ceiling made our parents re-think their earlier decision.
It seems nearly everyone collects something. I’ve intereviewed several people lately about their collections, most recently Grynneth Parizek and Wanda Anderson of Lone Tree. Parizek has a frog collection, Anderson collects socks. The two friends have shared their collection with each other and were happy to share them with Gazettereaders, too. You can read about Anderson’s collection (she has 700+ pairs of socks!) in today’s newspaper.
Do you have an interesting collection? Do you know someone who does? If so, send me an e-mail at meredith.hines-dochterman@gazcomm.com and perhaps they’ll be our next collectible feature in the Community Section.
– Meredith
A lady named, I believe, Von, was receptionist at Linn Co Dept of Soc Welfare in the 1950s.
If you can locate her for me, I will state that you will have a great story on collections. Hers and mine.
I would like to see how she is doing with herself and collections.