I found this in the basement of an estate sale quite a few years ago. I've always called it a "moon shelf". It looked homemade from plywood, and as it turns out, it was. My daughter hung it in her room and put knick-knacks on it. She's recently (and quickly) grown up. A whole 13 years old and wants to distance herself from the things of her childhood. Sigh.
I found a bag of these electric candle sticks at a garage sale a number of years ago. They probably date from the late 1980's to early 1990's. They're a fun spin on the more traditional white Christmas candle sticks.
This porcelain Jack O' Lantern lamp dates from 1980. It was a recent find (just last week). While it's not terribly vintage, I liked its look. It stands 8" tall.
Capitalizing (if not downright infringing) upon the popularity of "Casper the Friendly Ghost", Charlton Comics introduced "Timmy the Timid Ghost" in 1956. Casper had been in Paramount cartoons since 1945 and Harvey comics since 1952; 4 years before Charlton decided to throw its sheet into the ring. This November 1970 issue was nearly at the end of Timmy's afterlife; the comic was cancelled in 1971, though it made a brief 3-issue reprint reappearance in 1985.
Despite sporting an upswept curl and a bold red "T" on his chest to dispel any confusion with his rival, the similarities far outweighed the differences. Timmy even had a bowler-derby-wearing "Spooky"-clone friend named "Max".
When I was a kid, we had a couple books laying around in our "book box" (we didn't have any book cases) that both intrigued and frightened me. They were both Scolastic/Arrow books of ghost stories. It wasn't the content of the books that scared me, it was the covers themselves. Those books were lost over the years, but I was able to find them at various sales.
