Book Sale
Al and I went to the Erie County Library’s big book sale last night. Tables and tables of used books, most of which were priced $0.50 for hardcover and $0.25 for paperbacks, with the exception of the books in the “special/collector” section, which were individually priced. I didn’t see any of them with stickers over $6.00, and most were only $3.00 or $4.00, with an additional 25% the marked price.
I ended up spending $6.50 for three hardback books. Al got five books, but I’m not sure what his total was.
I was perusing books in the “arts” section and picked up a book about old movies and opened it to a random page to beginning flipping through. The page I opened to was this:
In and of itself, that would not have been anything remarkable. However, given that I had just recently taken part in this discussion, I thought it was ever-so-slightly freakish.
Then, while I was waiting for Al to check out with his literary loot, I scanned the table of DVDs, CDs, and tapes, whereupon I spotted this antique:
It wasn’t enough that it was a copy of Shaun Cassidy’s Born Late. No. And it wasn’t enough that it was a tape of Shaun Cassidy’s Born Late. Nope. It was, as you may have noticed, an 8-Track of Shaun Cassidy’s Born Late. In my (much) younger years, I owned this recording. As well as his first one that included the song I think he is most famous for… Da Doo Ron Ron. However, my copies were not 8-Tracks, they were LPs. And I played them on a portable record player that was exactly (or nearly exactly) like this one. While I thought Shaun Cassidy was cute back in the day, he was never serious competition for his older half brother:
What was up with all the scrawny guys back in the ‘70s. How did I ever find that attractive?
Fortunately, it looks like they both grew out of that skinny phase*:
Well, shit. I was going to embed a current David Cassidy singing clip here, but I seem to have broken You Tube with all my emaciated ‘70s idols in tight pants with shaggy hair viewing. I guess you’ll have to make do with a still:
*One can only hope the poor guy finally developed some chest hair at some point, too.
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June 12th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
i’ve been converting my mom’s LP collection to digital for her birthday and she has a ton of shaun cassidy too, including the da doo ron ron song, or whatever it is.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I hope she doesn’t read this blog because if she does, you just ruined the surprise.
To the best of my recollection, I only had two Shaun Cassidy LPs, neither of which were very good. I defend myself with the fact that I was about 10 years old, give or take. Have you run across any Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy/Partridge Family, or Leif Garrett in your mother’s collection? LOL
June 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
The “Francis the Talking Mule” find is truly freaky (and sweet!).
A buddy of mine still has a bunch of 8-Tracks though I’m not sure he has any players for them. He used to visit garage sales buying them when they were available. I imagine they’re pretty rare by now.