Items for Sale at Duke's Antique Center in Lexington, Va.

If I were still a newspaper reporter, this entry would be called a 'conflict of interest' because my mom is one of the antiques merchants at Duke's Antique Center in Lexington, Va. (one hour north of Roanoke, two and a half hours south of Washington, DC). The antiques mall is actually open 365 days a year- even Christmas Day! Duke's is located at 30 Pinnacle Lane, Lexington, Va. 24450. Phone: 540.463.9511

Here are some of the items you will find there, and I will use an * to indicate the one item which can be found in my mom's booth.

$8- John Denver's "Prayers, Poems and Promises" lp featuring West Virginia's unofficial national anthem "Country Roads" (pictured here).

$28- Vintage framed poster of President Gerald Ford (we're not making this up!)

$20 Zorro comic book

$28 Woody Woodpecker story book from the 1970s

$5 "Saturday Night Fever" dvd

*$20- Roy Rogers lunchbox- it's really not that old, but we'd sure like to get rid of it!

Status Update- (A Short Entry Because We Need Some zzzzzzzzzzzzs!)

I am not going to stay up all night and watch Chilly Willy cartoons on Youtube tonight!

Happy New Year's from Quick Draw McGraw

We had a hard time deciding which cartoon character to use for our annual Happy New Year's greeting, so after much reflection, we chose the Hanna Barbera 'toon character from the sixties, Quick Draw McGraw, who was perhaps influenced by the B-movie Westerns of the forties which starred the likes of Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy.

McGraw was voiced by the late, great Daws Butler, and some of his cartoons may appear on Bommerang! (which we can not completely verify).

'Course, there is always Youtube.........just make sure you don't click on a cartoon in Portuguese as I once did when viewing a Woody Woodpecker cartoon!

Oh, and in case you were wondering his side kick is named Baba Looey!