Headed out after that. My first stop was the Haddon Township Library for this week's job counseling session and to return the books I took out last week. Dawn and I ended up applying to a travel office, the Mercedes-Benz in Cherry Hill, and a security firm. All are secretarial and receptionist jobs. None of them sound that overly exciting, but they're jobs, and I need to get out of the Acme.
Left Dawn doing work on her laptop around 12:30 and rode to Collingswood for lunch. I hadn't eaten at the Pop Shop since Lauren visited in June. They were pretty quiet despite it being 1 PM, just after the lunch hour. They're famous in South Jersey for their many variations on grilled cheese, so I tried the one on their fall menu with apples, bacon, and three cheeses. Oh yum. The apples complimented the gooey cheese perfectly, and the bacon was cooked just well enough. Had it with crunchy-salty tater tots.
Walked around Collingswood for the next few hours. Dug up Huey Lewis and the News' first hit album Picture This and a plush Care Bear at Time Lapse. I'd never heard of Laugh-a-Lot Bear. She must have been created for the most recent version of the show on Cartoon Network. She's a gold cutie with a bright red clown's nose and a goofy star with its tongue out as her tummy symbol. She'll be a great gal pal for the smaller Cheer Bear I picked up a few years ago.
Since it's around the corner anyway, my next stop was Collingswood Music. Once again, I didn't find a lot, but I did dig up some interesting stuff. Actually, my best find was a biography of original Who drummer Keith Moon, Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend, for $8. I also got John Lennon's last posthumous album with Yoko Ono, Milk and Honey.
Did much better at Innergroove Records two blocks down Haddon Avenue. I promised myself I wouldn't spend over 20 on anything today, and I already pushed that with the Care Bear. I managed to dig a whole pile of interesting albums out of the 1 and 2 dollar bins here:
Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House - A Disney vintage spooky sounds album with a great scary cover depicting an old house against a graveyard. I laughed so hard when I found this! My guy friend Matt discussed this at his blog Dinosaur Dracula just yesterday. I mentioned in the comments that I hadn't found it yet...and it turned up less than 24 hours later.
Frank Sinatra - A Man and His Music
Johnny Mathis - Open Fire, Two Guitars and Warm (a "Deluxe 2-Record Gift Set")
The original cast album for the 1964 Steve Lawrence vehicle What Makes Sammy Run?
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Going Places (Ehh, everyone probably has at least one Tijuana Brass album laying around in their collection. This one features what's likely their two most iconic numbers, "Tijuana Taxi" and "Spanish Flea.")
Doubled back to Sprouts after that to finish my grocery shopping. Picked up two boxes of Olyra breakfast cookies, four cans of Olipop soda on sale, coconut milk, Hint water for the ride home, and more dried pineapple and cinnamon almonds from the bins. The pineapple and almonds cost a bit more this time...but oh, were they worth it, especially the perfectly sweet-crispy nuts.
Put on an episode of The Wild Wild West when I got home. "The Night of the Tottering Tontine" gets into Murder By Death territory when Jim West and Artemis Gordon discover someone's killing the members of a tontine, group of investors who have their own laws stating that the last remaining member will gain all their assets...including the secret weapon one member is developing. Members have been dying mysteriously even before West, Gordon, and the remaining number are trapped in the secret room of a creepy old mansion.
Got my schedule online at this point. While I didn't get as many hours, I still have more than got earlier in the summer. Three days off this time, but also two early days. It's probably a good thing, as I intend to spend most of next week getting ready for my vacation the week after.
Worked on the inventory next. Added the two rock albums I bought today, plus Subways are for Sleeping, Sugar (the first Broadway version of Some Like It Hot from the 70's), the burlesque revue Sugar Babies, and Sunday In the Park With George. Subways goes back the furthest here. I bought it from the now-defunct Friends In Deed Thrift Shop in Collingswood around 2009.
Switched to Match Game '73 during dinner. The first episode was the one with Gene coming out in that infamously ugly green and red plaid suit. He looked so awful, even the panelists wouldn't turn his way. Gene wasn't the only wild thing going on in that episode, either. Towards the end of the episode, after the contestant won the Head-to-Head, most of the panelists just got up, ran off the stage, and randomly hugged and kissed audience members. Fannie Flagg smooched a very lucky guy, while Jack Carter ended up in some lady's lap. Patti Deustch made her debut in the second episode, joined for the first and only time by Jim "Mr. Magoo" Backus.
Finished the night with more classic TV shows on Paramount Plus and Tubi. Captain Steubing is worried on The Love Boat when his gambler buddy (Gene Barry) makes Vicki think she can easily make money without working. His friend takes the pearls he gave Vicki to the casino to teach her a lesson in "Vicki and the Gambler." One lady (Vicki Lawrence) discovers that "Love With a Skinny Stranger" isn't easy when her now-slender fiancee (Charles Siebert) keeps attracting lovely ladies. Two married former crooks (Kaye Ballard and Jesse White) spring a retired safecracker (Jack Gilford) from jail to reunite "That Old Gang of Mine" for one last score.
In addition to the appearance with his band mates in the third season of Laugh-In, Davy Jones also turned up solo on a mid-second season episode. They especially seemed to like pairing him with noisy, oversized Jo Anne Worley, but Goldie Hawn and Ruth Buzzi got their chance to ogle him, too. Nipsey Russell, Greer Garson, and a pre-Hart to Hart Robert Wagner toss out the short blurbs and bits here.
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