WAM to BAM: 20+ Years of Reinventing Vintage Retailing
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 2:00PM 
Space Shuttle Enterprises Takes Final Fly Over NYC & Into Collectibility
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 11:38AM This is exclusive WDMS footage of the Shuttle Enterprise making it's final in-flight appearance before settling into the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in NYC. Now, like an old retiring Beanie Baby, there will be no more space shuttles.
As a friend of mine once said: "It's the end of an era (corn up my ass!)
I apologize for the vulgarity, but the comment rings painfully true. Now what?
When I arrived at Pier 45 (the old Christopher Street Pier), there were only three of us standing in the cold. No one spoke, but we each knew why the other was there. After an hour or so, perhaps as many as 100 people trickled over; some with kids, many with dogs, but all with cameras. Though the wind whipped up mean along the Hudson, we all knew something amazing was about to happen.
Now, suddenly total strangers became comrads, armed with iPhones, binoculars. A collective experience was approaching and the nervous energy made people chatty.
After an hour or more of being buzzed by police and other unmarked helicopters the crowd began to morph into one child-like panic of amazement. We were all to simultaneously receive one giant present, but only because we'd been patient little boys and girls. The expectation was a giddiness I have seldom seen.
As the clouds broke, the collective breath of the crowd let out a discernible gasp. Coming in low, very low, some 1,500 feet above the water, was the now-famous specially outfitted 747 and its piggyback present. We were soon to be squealing all the way home.
I climbed atop a concrete mooring and a lady who'd been sitting beside me suddenly stood up. "You want a better look?" I said.
"Oh, I shouldn't," she said. "But this is our last chance, isn't it?"
I put out my hand and pulled her up. In the distance, a muffled roar split through the clouds and then the massive object came into view.
"It's the end of the future," she said as it passed above our heads. "No SSTS, no Concordes and now no more shuttles."
"It's sad" I said, balancing myself and camera alike. "Now what've we got?"
She grabbed my arm for balance. "Exactly! It's an empty future when you've nothing to look forward to..."
In one final glimpse, history and a dead technology made its final turn across the stone face of the Statue of Liberty, then banked off into the clouds.
The end of an era indeed.
By Danny Alias
Copyright 2012 WDMS
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 10:01PM 
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 1:00PM 
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 12:36AM SALLY'S PASSIONS, VANITIES & OTHER ENDEARING VICES - Collections, Re-collections & Regurgitations!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:59PM ![]()
Having always had an addictive personality, and loving things in multiples, it's a wonder the invitro fertilization didn't stick or most likely I'd be dressing quints in his n' hers vintage Izods & Danskin. But as far as my collecting addictions, there are many and it's an insatiability that feeds these obsessions. Pretty little things, that's what I love, that's what I need. I always want MORE. They give me pleasure when I gaze upon them, I never feel they are excessive or unnecessary. They indeed, become a part of my patchwork Hyde Park crib of many colors.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6:33PM 
Can Romney's Bain Capital Save Iconic Hostess Twinkies (& America) by Squeezing Out The Last of the Cream Filling?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:06PM 
"When Danny Met Sally" Lights Up Times Square Billboard
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 2:21PM 
Let's be honest. You're first thought is: Photoshop! Clearly this is another crazy publicity ploy by the people who brought you talking dogs, Martha Stewart's real estate woes and nudist antique dealers. Oh, that Danny & Sally: Short of setting one another on fire, what won't these two do for attention? (Wait, they did that already. Damn!) No, dear readers, this is the real deal. As part of our shout out to friends, fans and stalkers of all ages, our 2012 New Year's blast went over the wire services to hundreds of media outlets across the country. Apparently the Gods must be crazy for Vintage because our Kitty Cat Antique Dealers made it onto the Great White Way hawking, coincidentally, a White Sale! Now for those of you who STILL don't believe this explanation (family members included), this offers the perfect moment to discuss reality-- or at least reality as we once knew it. Today we live in a Photoshop Universe. Perceptions can be tweaked with the click of a mouse. Destinies can be altered, as well as breasts, thighs or a bucket of chicken from KFC. Models on the runway can be made so skinny that only transparency remains the final deduction. Six pack abs? Please. Eight, Ten, Twelve! This is America. It's not what you get, it's what you see!




















