Algonac Jr. High Hammered Lure
I think I was about 11 or 12 years old, in 6th or 7th grade, when we all had to take metal shop and wood shop as a class while attending Algonac Jr. High. Mr. Morris was the shop teacher...
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Callen MFG Cap Grenade No.1
Here's my finished Pop-Realism drawing of a Vintage Callen MFG. CORP. Cap Grenade. I drew this in graphite and colored pencil and the finished size is 18” W x 36” T on paper and had a bunch of friends vote...
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Colony Bowl Bowling Pin
When I was 16 years old, I worked as a pin-chaser for $2.25 an hour at The Colony Bowl in Algonac, Michigan. I remember working the back during Saturday night’s Moonlight Bowling League and I’d drop a red pin in...
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Dairy Queen Vanilla Cone No.2
This was my first commissioned art of a Dairy Queen Vanilla Cone that I created for one of our neighbors. I actually like this better than the 72" T one I'm still working on. I think it's the wetness of...
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Shakespeare Dopey Vintage Fishing Lure
Early in July of 2019, Lynn and I drove over to Carmel-by-the-sea and Monterey looking for galleries where my work might do well in. One of the galleries we stopped at hadn't even opened yet, but the work was so...
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Paw Paw Vintage Fishing Lure
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...
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Vintage Duck Call
If you grew up in Algonac, Michigan, then there was probably a 110% chance that you went duck hunting, knew someone who went duck hunting or found a 12 gauge shotgun shell floating in the reeds somewhere. That's why it...
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Dairy Queen Vanilla Cone No.3
The Algonac Dairy Queen sat on the edge of main street at the end of the playground of the old Algonac Junior High. In the summer, we'd ride our bikes uptown and grab a 25-cent vanilla cone and then ride...
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Imperial Fishing Knife
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...
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Wilson T2000 Tennis Racquet
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...
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