Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Phone photo 1906

Near Vader, Washington

Buttons - Activist - 1974

WIN

On the curl: Bastian Bros Co, Rochester, NY

The brainchild of the Ford Administration, this was an acronym for "Whip Inflation Now." But rather than the grassroots wave the President was hoping for, the WIN campaign became the butt of jokes from a cynical public weary of Watergate and politicians.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Phone photo 1905

Cowlitz Landing

"At this place Hudson's Bay Company traders from Puget Sound loaded furs in canoes for transport to the Columbia River in the years 1836-1846. Then American settlers came up the river by bateau, barge and raft. A landing was built on the donation claim of F.A. Clarke and a hotel on the adjoining land of E.D. Warbuss. American settlers held a convention here in 1851 and petitioned for a new U.S. Territory north of the Columbia River. Steamboats came in 1858. They served the Cowlitz Valley until 1917."

"Erected by the Washington State Highway Commission."

My own ancestors may have landed here in the mid-1870s. This historic marker is within a stone's throw of the biggest "EAT" sign on Interstate 5 in Washington.



$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 1

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 1. A standalone page.

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

$25 ppd
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McCleary, WA 98557-0390


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Phone photo 1904

U-Wauna deserted restaurant
Wauna, Oregon

Buttons - Activist - 1981

Immoral Minority

A button that cropped up in response to the "Moral Majority"

Phone photo 1903

Public trashcans in Astoria, Oregon cleverly celebrate their history of canning fish

$25 Sale - Original Art- Cranium Frenzy # 6 - Cover


Cover original art, Cranium Frenzy # 6.

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990 in a room that could have potentially made half of McCleary a giant crater.

$25 ppd
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Steve Willis
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McCleary, WA 98557-0390


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SOLD!

Phone photo 1902

Liberty Theater, Astoria, Oregon

Buttons - Activist - 1991

Operation Desert Storm, I Support Our Troops


Phone photo 1901


Astoria, Oregon

$200 - Fetid Lake of Doom Original Art and Script



The Fetid Lake of Doom original art and script, finished in 2007, $200 ppd.

8 pages of artwork on medium stock paper, 30.5 x 22.5 cm. with perforated spiral binding marks along the right edge (I'm left-handed). Felt tip over nonphoto blue pencil.

The script was actually changed quite a bit in the course of drawing the thing, which is pretty normal for me. What is not normal is that the script still exists! Ballpoint pen on 6 yellow tablet sheets, 28 x 22 cm., lots of crossed out lines.

$200 ppd.
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Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Phone photo 1900

Astoria, Oregon

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 2008

Obama/Biden, www.barackobama.com

On the curl: 29625 c2008, Tigereye Design 800-844-3729

Another button my Mom found and donated to the visual parade.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Phone photo 1899

Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon

Phone photo 1898

Columbia River with the Willapa Hills, Pacific County, Washington in the background

Taken in Astoria, Oregon

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1984

Mondale Ferraro

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

My Mom dug this out last week and contributed to the visual cause

Phone photo 1897

Streetcar
Astoria, Oregon

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Morty Comix # 2432






Morty Comix # 2432 was left in the door of the long defunct Porter Grocery and Restaurant, Porter, Washington

Phone photo 1896

Astoria, Oregon

$25 Sale - Alternative Library Literature, 1994-1995



Edited by library legends Sanford Berman and Jim Danky, Alternative Library Literature 1994-1995 was published by McFarland. 333 pages, in good condition. The last couple chapters are about zines in libraries.

$25 ppd
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Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Phone photo 1895

View of Astoria, Oregon across the Columbia River from Dismal Nitch, Megler, Washington

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1968

Nixon

This small bit of metal was designed to clip on to a shirt pocket. I found it on the ground in 1968.

Phone photo 1894

Near Bay Center, Washington

Morty Comix # 2431






Morty Comix # 2431 landed inside the historic jail in Napavine, Washington. The building apparently also doubles as a dog pound. This is the second historic jail in one day to receive an issue of Morty Comix.

Phone photo 1893

Oyster shells, Bay Center, Washington

$50 - An Untitled Portfolio, 1st ed.


An Untitled Portfolio

1st edition, Fall 1977, Olympia, Washington. 100 copies, dark blue cover, light blue guts, enlarged digest size. I have one copy available in good condition.

$50 ppd.
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Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Phone photo 1892

Willapa Bay and Tokeland as seen from Bruceport, Washington

Buttons - Union - 1993

Don't Risk Our Future
I-601, I-602
Washington Federation of Teachers

On the curl: Air Power Graphics, 1-206-568-3490

Phone photo 1891

Pacific County Courthouse
South Bend, Washington