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Bathtub Sofas. "I pick up usable trash," says Hugo Mesa, a commercial designer in Los Angeles. "It's all potential pollution." In his hands, a discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband...
...Gold Fox ($95), Dr. Seth Arnold's cough killer ($2), Dr. Fenner's Kidney & Backache Cure ($14) and a (misspelled) bottle of Kalamasoo heavy blob soda ($9.50). Of the moderns, Avon cologne and perfume bottles are most popular; an International Avon Collectors organization, headquartered in Mesa, Ariz., informs members of new issues. Novice collectors can seek guidance in books like Collecting Bottles, which covers the field, or Fruit Jars, which gets down to such specifics as how to tell a double safety from an acme...
...city of Grand Junction, Colorado sprawls out over a small piece of the Colorado Mesa Valley. It's population of 24,000 have gravitated there primarily because it is a "pretty place," according to one citizen. A rapidly developing population center, the city has clean streets, a couple newly built high schools, and it's own college scene, centered around Mesa College. In 1967, it won the All-American city award. Every year, the citizens host the national junior baseball tournament with teams coming from as far away as Miami, New York, and Houston...
...KARL THEMAN Mesa, Ariz...
...they set off for a Sunday afternoon swapout in the lot of an Anaheim drive-in. So much for Merilee to buy in order to transmogrify herself into a proper Samfrau. A refrigerator, a stove to replace the habachi she had been cooking on since the move to Costa Mesa, a huge musty Persian rug to sleep and meditate upon, and many other cosas. Trippy old hinges for doors, rubber plants which manufacture rubber-bands, a larger cage for Birdie. They flaired out of the lot at last with the dowery nearly spent, Sam quiet, and the TR sweating hard...