It's been an entire year since I last posted photos from my "Found in Books" file. This edition's presentation from May 2020 to May 2021 features a lot of the classic FIB material: Ticket stubs, boarding passes, photo booth strips, naked guy photo, drawings, travel brochures, letters, receipts, and photocopied book pages.
Some of the more unusual findings are a JC Penney full-page color ad for $8 "antifreeze flannel shirts"; a postage-paid postcard to the Washington State Employment Service (a.k.a. "unemployment office") with a doodle and some notes; a yellow index card with two-sided lists of 61 birds seen in July 2006 in shaky ballpoint pen; a currency exchange rate card with pesos and dollars from Pardo's Gift Shop in Mazatlan, probably from the fifties or sixties; and a ticket to the haunted house, "The House that Eats People," sponsored by NEAT, a non-profit corp.
There was also a faded pasteboard sign wisely advising, "Pay Your Grocer FIRST. When you pay your bills, give your Grocer FIRST MONEY. He supplies you with what you need most--FOOD;" an order form for Modern Taxidermy Books; a Red Cross card for someone who completed CPR - ADULT. And a poignant list with two columns: "Observable Change" (try to be more organized and neater, try to [down arrow] internet porn) and "What is Changing" ([up arrow] weight, [up arrow] road rage)."
