Atomic Addiction

There has been no activity here on The Addiction for a few reasons... Restoring our 1964 Shasta is taking up the majority of my free time. It takes a good amount of time to do this type of t...

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There really hasn't been too much thrifting recently because we are trying to save some dough for the trailer and other things. I did manage to find a few thing here and there... I have been ...

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About 5 years ago I found a kid's kick scooter in my Grandma's barn. I though I would take it home and fix it up. I'm not really sure how old it is. I think it is pretty old because you don't see...

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While going to pick up a Craigslist bed for Calvin we spotted this desk parked next to a dumpster. We pulled this beast home. The desk is pretty heavy and quite large. It was a trick just getting...

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  We have launched our vintage Shasta blog. I figured a new blog dedicated to Louise was needed for several reasons. For one I'm sure that there are folks that visit here that do not care ab...

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SUCCESS! Trailer Watch 2009 is over for us. I will give the quick version of the story. I found this Shasta listed on Craigslist Friday afternoon. I contacted the seller a few hours after it was ...

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Vintage TV antenna. Sorry for the crummy picture. It isn't in too bad of shape. Not sure that I could actually get it to work. But it is a nice display item. Needs a bit of cleaning up. We were ...

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We did our annual trip up north and Mrs. J. was kind enough to send us home with a few freebies. Boy, do we love her... Salt and pepper collection of various shapes and sizes... Two sets of Bal...

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We have had some pretty great finds lately. I won't go crazy and show them all at once so here are just two... You can see from him sitting on a CD that this ceramic panther is pretty small. I'...

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I have been kinda hot on travel trailers lately. You know that time of year when you want to get out and about. Doing some searching I came across this trailer... It is the 1960 HOLIDAY HOUSE ...

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We were recently given a ton of magazines from the 40's, 50's and 60's. Molly's Aunt and Uncle cleaned out a old lady's home and saved all of these from the trash. They thought we might be able...

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I have not done this for a while. I think it is overdue. I did add some high rez images for each picture... CABANA: I really like the storage for this backyard cabana... http://www.flickr.c...

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We found a set of lamps on Craigslist. They are in real good shape. The shades are almost perfect. Pretty cool set for only 40 bucks. Here they are as found... I rewired both lamps and I think ...

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Found this Coco Joes statue in Iowa. He is a nice sized one. He does have a bit of the "Coco Joes Lean" going on. A few folks over at Tiki Central have come up with a method to fix that. I sure ...

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Just a couple of recent finds for today... We found this first set at a garage sale. They are pretty slick. Push the white/black button and the salt/pepper comes out the bottom. Not bad for 4 bu...

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We had gotten this real big fiberglass shade as a gift from my parents a while ago. Thanks Mom and Dad! Well we didn't have any floor lamps in need of a shade so I made a hanging light out of it....

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Where is Pete Campbell when ya need him? He is the expert on vintage chip & dips. But Monica came to the rescue instead... This is an ANCHOR HOCKING "HAPPY HOUR" CHIP & DIP SET. I saw that MO...

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My wonderful wife Molly picked up this ultra cool shadow box for my birthday late last year. I really like the other kind of Mid Century shadow boxes that have all of the crazy shapes and gold ...

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This has to be one of the best lamps ever made. We found this at Tip Top Atomic Shop in Milwaukee. The price wasn't horrible so against our thrifty ways it came home with us. It is in real great...

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We found this chair at a garage sale last weekend. Not a bad looking chair. I'm not sure who made it or even how old it is but it kinda has some danish lines to it. I'm going to sand it down an...

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We went around to a few garage sales yesterday and didn't find a whole lot. I won't show them all today... gotta save some for later when I am looking for something to share whith the readers. T...

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We are back... FINALLY! We have a lot of catching up to do... Shag has released a new print called "In Search of Tiki". As you can see, Shag has gone totally Tiki with this one. This is one of m...

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Left: This is one of my best finds I have had lately. It is a Trader Vic's Champagne glass. It was produced by Morgantown Glass for Trader Vic's. I see the average price listed on Ooga Mooga is...

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Well, we are pretty much completed in the "master" bedroom so I thought I would share a few pictures. Or bedroom, being on the second level, is kind of a odd shape. The area that the bed sits in ...

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This is my biggest Tiki find to date... 10 coconut mugs all in great condition. Found in a tropical location? Nope... Northern Wisconsin. Weird, huh? I found a box of these mugs in Mrs. J's att...

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