Goldberg - The Collectible 70s: A Price Guide to the Polyster Decade

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Michael Jay Goldberg

Copyright

2001 by
Michael Jay Goldberg

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Library of Congress Catalog Number:
ISBN: 0-87341-986-3

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Woodsy Owlhe tried so hard to make us understand.

Acknowledgments

This book is dedicated to the memory of Jon Brecka

I would like to thank these vintage shops, friends and collectors for kindly allowing me to photograph items for this book and also for their advice and encouragement.

Avalon Antiques & Vintage Clothing

Proprietor: Paul Bassett
Address: 203 SW 9th St.
City/State: Portland, OR ZIP: 97205
Phone: (503) 224-7156.

Avalon, Antiques has the distinction of being the oldest continously running vintage clothes shop on the West Coast. This store features antique and vintage clothing from 1970 back. Avalon also supplies costuming services for movies, commercials and bands.

Crossroads Music

Proprietor: Dave Clingan
Address: 3130-B SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland
State: OR Zip: 97214
Phone: 503-232-1767
E-mail: xroads@xro.com
Web Site: http://www.xro.com

Crossroads Music is a co-op of over 40 music dealers located in Portland, Oregon. We have a huge inventory of hard to find records, original concert posters and music memorabilia. Our extensive selection and reasonable prices draw customers from all over the world. Collectors and dealers alike shop at Crossroads Music on a regular basis for the best selection of collectible music and memorabilia on the West Coast. Open 7 days a week.

Decades Vintage Fashion

Proprietor: John Cosgrove
Address: 328 SW Stark St.,
City/State: Portland, OR ZIP: 97204
Phone: (503) 223-1177
E-mail: retroguy@decadesvintage.com
Web Site: http://www.decadesvintage.com

Decades Vintage Company is located in Downtown Portland's historic Oregon Pioneer Building at 328 SW Stark Street. Our store hours are 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Saturday and 12:00 to 4:00 pm on Sunday.

Decades carries a full line of men's and women's vintage fashions. We are dedicated to selling only the highest quality vintage clothing available. Many items have never been worn with the original tags still on them. Our specialty is clothing made in the 1930's through the 1970's. We also stock a myriad of interesting collectibles including costume jewelry, vintage bar ware and retro eyeglass frames.

Campaign poster, Jerry Brown for Governor, 1978.
Pinback button expresses emerging sentiment in the 1970s.

Robert Triptow

Address: San Francisco, CA
E-Mail: rtriptow@pacbell.net

Robert Triptow's first real taste of journalism was experiencing the Watergate scandal while working in a Salt Lake City newsroom, which helped turn him off as a reporter but gave him a proper '70s cynic ism. He ran away to the California dream and there became equally realistic about the gay community and then Hollywood. In the '80s he returned to his '70s love, underground cartooning, and edited Gay Comix, as well as co-editing the book Strip AIDSU.S.A. The recipient of San Diego Comics Con and Lambda Literaryawards, Triptow claims the title of the Last of the Haight/Ashbury Cartoonists, with work appearing in Real Girl, Juicy Mother, Young Lust, Bizarre Sex and Spastic Culture. Robert is happily domesticated in San Francisco and wonders which will happen first: that screenplay deal the completion of his latest book or being able to fit into his old bellbottoms.

Dr Tongue's House of Collectibles

Proprietor: Mark S. Pedersen
Address: 1408 E. Burnside St
City/State: Portland, Oregon ZIP: 97214
Phone: 503-233-8915 FAX: 503-233-7421
E-Mail: toydoc@teleport.com
Web Site: www.drtonguestoys.com

Dr Tongue's House of Collectibles - Established in 1994, Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Collectible Toys specializes in character toys from the 1950's to todays favorites. Just a partial list of items in the store and on our web site include: Star Wars, Star Trek, Universal & other types of Monsters, Superheroes, GI Joe's (both big & small), TV toys/memoribilia, PEZ, Cereal & AD Premiums, Veiwmasters, Japanese Sci-Fi toys, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cartoon Characters, Playsets, Mattel Thingmakers, Action Figures of all shapes & sizes, Character Glasses, Lunchboxes, Movie Posters..Dr. Tongues 3-D House of Collectible Toys - Specializing in the things your mother threw away!!!!!!!!!!!

Clean up was ideal with JAWS.

Excalibur Books & Comics Inc.

Proprietor: Peter Fagnant
Address: 2444 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland
State: OR Zip: 97214
Phone: 503-231-7660
Fax: 503 - 234 - 8850
E-mail: Peterf@teleport.com
Web Site: http://www.excaliburcomic.net

Excalibur Books and Comics has half a million comics ranging from the 1940s to the present. Lots of golden and silver age comics, Sci-fi paperbacks, pulp magazines and early collectibles. We sell online and through mail order.

Gilgamesh

Proprietor: William Hicks