Skull Spoons and Thread

(Above) Silver skull spoons by Pinky.


(Above) Pinky proves you don’t need a needle to make art with cloth and thread.


(Above) More silver skull spoons by Pinky.

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I want to stir my next cup of coffee with a skull spoon from Pinky Diablo, aka Tom Sale. Pinky says he is a Dallas area preacher who has retired from the zoo to work on his opera “The Zoo Keeper’s Lament” and to embroider baby chicks and dirty words on pillowcases.

My kind of guy.

Via PinkyDiablo.

Before and After

(Above) A rare color photo from 1943! Click on this image for super high res view!

CALLED “THE BANANA HOUSE” BY LOCALS IN THE YEAR 1943, this fruit stand was located at 1900 Franklin Street in Houston, TX. In May of that year, when FSA photographer Vachon snapped this image, the house was already nearly 100 years old.
4 x 5 Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon.


(Above) 1900 FRANKLIN STREET TODAY. The “Banana House” would have been located just about dead center in this photograph taken just months ago. Image courtesy of Virtual Earth technology. Click on this image for larger view!


WELL, I DON’T THINK THERE IS ANY QUESTION ABOUT THESE TWO IMAGES. Houston got rid of a banana stinkin’ eyesore a long time ago for this big concrete improvement! Chalk up another victory for civic progress. Images sourced through shorpy.com.