By David_Chesanow on Jan 19, 2010 in Auctions, Events, Famous Autographs | 0 Comments
Thanks to you, AmeriCollector.com now has a loyal readership, and it's growing daily: We had over 18,000 visitors last week, which is hugely gratifying.
At a juncture like this, I can’t help but think it’s the ideal time to reaffirm our mission: to provide a fun, interesting, informative venue of interest to collectors in a wide [...]
By David_Chesanow on Jan 15, 2010 in Events, History | 2 Comments
What is it that makes the Pacific Northwest a little wild, a little woolly – and sometimes downright creepy?
The first time I ever visited Seattle, in 1992, I went into a T-shirt shop to buy souvenirs and struck up a conversation with the salesgirl and another customer, both Puget Sound natives. Being from out of [...]
By David_Chesanow on Jan 5, 2010 in Books, Events | 0 Comments
If you’re not already on the “Antiques Roadshow” e-mail list – or have never checked out Antiques Roadshow Online on the PBS Web site (www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow) – you’re missing out on lots of great information: profiles of the appraisers and their past appraisals; recommended reading by subject; even a teacher’s guide with featured objects to get [...]
By David_Chesanow on Dec 17, 2009 in Art Posters, Events, Interview | 3 Comments
Poster art, like album cover art and T-shirt art, has been part of the iconography of American music since the 1960s – that decade of so many great, misguided and/or lost causes – when music really started to make a statement. You can trace some of the evolutionary branches of rock and roll through its [...]
By David_Chesanow on Oct 29, 2009 in Events, Experience | 4 Comments
Freddy Krueger, get a day job! The REAL nightmare isn’t on Elm Street but on East “D” Street in Tacoma, where the Black Lake Haunted Asylum will scare the giblets out of “patients” three more evenings of this week, through Sat., Oct. 31 (Halloween).
I voluntarily “committed” myself to the Asylum last night, and glad that [...]
