Pop-Realism

by MPitzer|23 September 202227 September 2022|Pop-Realism, Vintage Toys

When we were kids, growing up in Algonac, Michigan, we’d actually play Monopoly instead of watching the family’s 19-inch, black and white TV that got three main channels, abc, CBS, and NBC, plus UHF channel 50. Those were are TV...

Hubley Cap Gun

by MPitzer|21 September 202227 September 2022|Pop-Realism, Vintage Toys

If we weren’t looking for pop bottles, we were probably playing Cowboys and Indians. This was my Hubley cap pistol. I must have had it from the time I was 6 until I was 8. I remember my Dad taking...

Imperial Fishing Knife

by MPitzer|21 September 202203 October 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Vintage Pocket Knives

If you were a boy growing up on the St. Clair River in Algonac, Michigan, there was a good chance you got hockey gear for Christmas and fishing stuff for your birthday. My parents gave me this fishing knife when...

Wilson T2000 Tennis Racquet

by MPitzer|21 September 202203 October 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Vintage Tennis Racquets

The first varsity letter I won was playing tennis. Well, actually, I was on the tennis team and played enough to be given a letter. My favorite tennis racquet was the Wilson T2000 with oil-filled nylon strings. It was the...

Bakelite Fountain Pen

by MPitzer|17 September 202217 September 2022|Pop-Realism

My Dad worked for 20+ years at Willey Sign company in Mt Clemens, Michigan before leaving to go to work with my Mom in her cookbook business. As the head purchasing agent at Willey’s, my Dad would get all kinds...

1950’s Johnson Sea-horse 5hp Outboard Engine

by MPitzer|17 September 202217 September 2022|Pop-Realism

Seeing all the posts of the 4th of July Algonac Pickerel Tournament and the boat parade, made me a little nostalgic and got me going on this drawing. I'm pretty sure, almost every family living on the St. Clair River...

Epiphone Casino Sunburst Guitar

by MPitzer|17 September 202222 September 2022|Pop-Realism

This drawing is one of my bigger pieces at 36" x 72". It's of my beautiful, Epiphone Casino Sunburst electric guitar that I bought at Guitar Center up on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood about a year after Lynn and I...

Attacking Martian Robot No.2

by MPitzer|16 September 202217 November 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Vintage Toys

This was one of the coolest things I started collecting as a kid. It cost me $1 at a garage sale and I was able to hold on to it until a couple years after I got married — the...

Lure No.1

by MPitzer|16 September 202203 October 2022|Fishing Lures, Pop-Realism, Sold

Growing up in Algonac, Michigan, we lived on the St. Clair River with a dock that ran 150 feet out from our front yard. We'd swim in the summer, skate in the winter, and fish every chance we could from...

Wingrove’s Dairy Vanilla Cone

by MPitzer|16 September 202203 October 2022|Ice Cream Cones, Pop-Realism, Sold

Every year as kids, when the weather started getting warmer, we’d all jump on a bus at Pte. Tremble Elementary School and ride to Wingrove’s (sort of like the local Dairy Queen), where we’d each get a free ice cream...

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