These are pictures Robin took in July 2016 of my old sticker collection.

In my bedroom at 3116 Shorewood Lane, I had a sticker collection.  Like most
of my collections, my sticker collection was not at all discriminating.  I
collected anything that stuck.  I covered my dresser and the frame of my
mirror, with everything from address labels to the frames from which actual
stickers are cut.  But my closet door (one of a 3-door closet) was reserved
for the best of the stickers.

When we moved, I couldn't bear to leave my collection, so I took the door.
But as it did not fit my new closet, I just stored it in the garage.  (I felt
guilty at the time for taking the door, but in retrospect, I can see the new
owners would have had to replace it anyway).

About 15 years later, Robin built the door into a table for his room (which at
that time may have been just his workshop).  He told me at the time (may have
even asked permission), but we both forgot about it later.  I never forgot
that the door once existed, but didn't remember what became of it.  Then in
July 2016, Robin was cleaning out the house so it could be put up for sale and
rediscovered the door.

I continued to add to my sticker collection, though very eclectically, until
we moved in December 1979.  I don't remember when I started the collection,
but it was probably around 1972.


Most of my good stickers came from cereal boxes.  That's probably where the
flag pictures came from.  Maybe the ad parodies too.  The one for the
"decomposition notebook" has a blank to write in "Stolen from:" and I wrote
K.G. Johnson, my grandfather, but I cannot recall how it came from him.

Below the Biva and Scare Deal product parody stickers is one for Burpsi Cola.
There is no close-up of that.

The animal and palm tree stickers were from a school supply shopping trip with
Mom.  I was torn between the notebook with lots of pockets and features but a
plain cover (The Organizer, I believe), and the one with a pretty cover.  Mom
had the idea to get the fancy one and get stickers from Hallmark to put on it.
The ones on the closet door were the leftovers.  I'm guessing that was 5th
grade, but maybe 4th.

Those STP stickers were ubiquitous.  I presume they were meant as bumper
stickers, but people put them everywhere.

The Medic 1 sticker is what people put on their telephones before 911 was
invented.  And even Medic 1, as a government ambulance and paramedic service,
was a fairly recent invention.  I guess before that, you called a commercial
ambulance company.

The heart-shape sticker contains the word "Love".  This was a common symbol of
the 1970s.

Some of these stickers are glow-in-the-dark (and definitely from cereal
boxes), including the hand and foot print ones.

The sticker that is hanging down is, I believe, Dennis the Menace.  I just
have a faint memory of the colors visible on it - the red is Dennis' pants.

The horizontal things under the electrical outlet are decals for a bicycle.