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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...

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...

Orange Tootsie Pop No.1

by MPitzer|16 September 202203 October 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Tootsie Pop Art

The first Tootsie Pop I drew was a smaller Chocolate drawing. It was also my very first internet sale on SaatchiArt.com. But wanting to do something bigger, I decided to draw this Orange Tootsie Pop. I was finally able to...

Cherry Tootsie Pop

by MPitzer|22 August 202203 October 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Tootsie Pop Art

As a kid growing up in Algonac, Michigan, we use to hop on our bikes and ride along M29 searching for pop and beer bottles people had thrown from their car windows. I guess there weren’t littering laws back then,...

Roy Rogers Pocket Knife

by MPitzer|22 August 202217 November 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Vintage Pocket Knives

This was another one of those cool birthday gifts I got as a kid. I, actually, think it was a promotional tchotchke sent to my Dad when he worked at Willey Sign Company in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. He gave me...

Cheap Metal Compass

by MPitzer|18 August 202203 October 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold

One of my first real drawing tools was a cheap, stamped steel compass that was made in Taiwan and sold at W.T. Grants. Grants was the only store in Algonac where you could buy everything from your first baseball glove...

Flexible Flyer Sled

by MPitzer|18 August 202203 October 2022|Pop-Realism, Sold, Vintage Toys

Growing up in Algonac, Michigan, you either got skates or hockey stuff for Christmas. Unless you were part of a big family, then you got a group present. I'm not really sure how we ended up with the sled, but...

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