RIP Tony Curtis

Actor Tony Curtis passes away at the age of 85 MSNBC.COM

The only thing Christmas related I could immediately think of is Christmas in Connecticut

RIP Eddie Fisher

Eddie Fisher Passes away at the age of 82
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RIP Billie Mae Richards

Billie Mae Richards who was widely known as the voice of Rudolph in the animated TV Christmas classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" She was 89 years old. A few other blogs have mentioned she was 88, The LINK I am including is from CBC News in Toronto.

A Thrift Store Find on Labor Day Frank E. Post

I was at the AmVets Thrift Store on Labor Day and they were having a 50% off sale on everything in the store.

I had gone looking for Christmas albums, but only found one and being the store was so packed and had a very long line to the cashiers, I decided to put the album back and just go home.

On my way out, I spotted TELCO's Frank E. Post The Singing Lamppost. I didn't want to take a chance of the checkout line getting longer so I didn't go back to the record section of the store and just got in line with "Frank" and waited about 20 minutes to reach the registers, but it was well worth the wait.

When I saw this at the AmVets Thrift Store, I couldn't pass it up. It was marked $3.98 but being on sale, I got it for $1.99. This particular one actually came from Bronners Store and retailed for $39.99 but had a sale sticker on it for $29.99. and then had the red tape that Bronners uses to show you paid for an item on the box. It even had the original plastic bag that it was sealed in as well as the cardboard sleeve that was around the lamppost.

I bought one of these several years ago at K-Mart's after Christmas Sale for $20.00 but ended up selling it along with other Christmas items on eBay just before Christmas the following year as I needed to get some money to buy presents for my family.

Since then, I've been looking for this on eBay, but usually it didn't have the original box and was expensive and the shipping was overly expensive too.

I posted a video of this on Youtube, (there are several others of this item there too) but the audio isn't very loud and it was also very hissy and I can't figure a way to amplify the audio or get rid of the hiss. My Digital Video camera automatically saves in .MOV format. This was my first try at creating a video for Youtube.

The video is is in HD. I tried embedding it in this post, but it was too large for the columns and didn't look right so instead, I'm including the link to the video on Youtube here.