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Broken News: Where would we be without eBay?
I was in a pretty vicious bidding war with 2 other eBay-ers.
Someone with the awkward name of “Chum” dropped out early but “SmashingSeahorses” held on and gave me a run for my money…
So, I probably spent twice what I could have if I had just waited…
But, that doesn’t matter.
In the end I won and today my package arrived…
Here is the first page:
The whole ticket book is intact, except the “C” ticket is torn from the perforation.
But now I have a souvenir of the way things used to be here in Passamaquoddy.
It’s scary to think how many of these things are scattered around town…
So, what’s your favorite Passamaquoddy souvenir?
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I’ll give you $1000 for that ticket!!! (And what would an A-Ticket get us, perchance?)
Sadly, I no longer have a souvenir from my childhood visit to the shores of Passamaquoddy.
I do however have some frightful memories.
The year was 1976 and it was my families first visit to Passamaquoddy. The ticket booklets were still in use at that time.
I had just seen Jaws and the very idea of Shark Mountain frightened me. I also recall a rather ghostly apperation atop the lighthouse. It was a woman singing Angie Baby. A very disturbing song about a youthful girl who trapped a boy whom she lusted for inside her radio. It freaked me out and I avoided transister radios for the next year. Of course, I now know that the song was just part of the Haunted Lighthouse back story and that, as the story goes, Angie is just “a little touched don’t cha know” and living in a world of make believe.
As someone who enjoys nostalgia I do hope you will post more tickets.
Jeff W.,
I’ll get all the tickets posted once I’ve gotten them all scanned. You know how it is out at this lighthouse, anytime I scan something it drains power all the way down to Rooney Buttons fountain. So I gotta pace myself… I usually do it when they’se watching “Deadliest Catch”.
lmongello,
$1000 for just the one? I paid $300 plus 2 years fish gutting for the whole book… (It’s amazing what they accept as bids on eBay nowadays). Thats prolly worth more than $1000…
Jeff W.,
My Momma just reminded me that, when I was younger I used to wake up screaming “Angie Baby’s gonna get me”… She kept me away from the lighthouse for several years until I was 12…
Doc Terminus,
I do hope the other tickets will spark some happier memories. Since reading the earlier post I’ve been having flashbacks of the Delta at Dawn.
Doc Terminus,
Doc Terminus, I know I’ve seen a copy of that back story somewhere. I’ll keep looking.
You outbid me fishface! I’m coming to get my ticket! You better find a good place to hide in that lighthouse of yours!!
What is weird is that I have never itched so badly after the Counrty Crab Jamboree…but the smell of butter from the smellitzer was enchanting!
The Priates of the Atlantic Junk Cruise is still Poddy-quineers best work. Perch Davis really excelled with the urchins and the seagull doody everywhere. It looks so real!