Over spring break my friends and I challenged each other to bring back gifts for one another, and this tin was given to me by Annalise. Worlds of Fun is an amusement park in Kansas City, MO. I’m not sure if that is where it came from, but she found it in a Colorado thrift store, so it is a very likely possibility that the park was the origin of this little box. Also, I’m a really terrible pack rat, and, as a result of that, I’m always searching for new containers to store my collections in. Annalise knows me too well. The image reminds me of the movie “Somewhere In Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. In the movie, Reeve’s character must travel back to 1912 to unravel a mysterious feeling of deja vu that has been nagging him. The costumes in the movie and on the tin are beautiful, and perfectly reflect the turnover in fashion that was the early 1900’s. The sepia tone helps set the mood of the time, as does the steamboat in the background.
I found this playing card near 2nd and Harrison, and I thought it was really pretty. Playing cards are one of my favorite things to find in the street, because it means that somewhere someone is missing a card from their deck, but its not lost because I found it.
This is only the lid to a tin, but pretty none the less. I found it in the northwest corner of Golden Gate Park, near the Conservatory. It was just up the hill from where Mary and I found the floral mandala. There is even a tiny mandala on it. The tin-lid is tiny in real life.
