Coco's Variety Store: April 2008

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Wanted: OK Used Bicycle Tags

I love everything about these hang tags - the clipped top corners, the red string, the reinforced hole, the Union printing label, the serial number in the upper left, the grease pencil, the color choices and the slightly imperfect silkscreen printing.

Anybody know where I can buy a stack? Alternatively, is there a vendor that could recreate them?

Marked "Copyright 1957 Gail C. Watson"
On Reverse "Eastman Label, San Jose, CA"

Googling reveals Eastman did some other cool labels: Link

Monday, April 7, 2008

Mister Jalopy (Coco's Proprietor) on Discovery Channel Canada

Canadian readers, take note: I will be on Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet tomorrow to discuss the Urban Guerrilla Drive-In Movie House, the home brew movie projector I built. Hopefully, some enterprising ne'er-do-well will figure out how to put it on the internet, as the site/channel is not viewable from the rest of world.

Want to see the Urban Guerrilla Drive-In Movie House in person? Come to Maker Faire, the most inspiring weekend of the year.

Link

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Coco's Legendary Used Tube Bucket for Thrifty Optimists with a Patch Kit and a Sense of Adventure

50 cents each, no promises.

Welcome to Coco's

2427 Riverside Drive
Los Angeles, California 90039
Email (323) 664-7400 Map

Coco's Variety sells flyswatters, glass 5 gallon water bottles, headache remedies, oil cloth by the yard, used bicycles, California souvenir tablecloths, Kit-Cat Klocks, gumballs, Mexican Cokes in glass bottles, squirt guns, tote bags adorned with hula girls, Lodge cast iron frying pans, old American-made tools, baskets for your bicycle, wood matches, reverse osmosis purified drinking water by the gallon and fancy Jadeite cake plates for fancy cakes on fancy occasions.

We sell everything but parakeets.

Forlorn Bicycles Considered, Purchased, Refurbished and Sold

Coco's is engaged in the refurbishment, repair and sale of used bicycles. From the scrap iron dealer's mud puddle, we buy bikes that nobody else wants. We buy junkers, clunkers, road bikes, mountain bikes, banana seat specials, fixies, step through ten speeds, heavy bikes, skip tooth relics, 80's splatter paint disasters, suspension bikes, BMX tricksters, track bikes, cruisers, bruisers and midnight losers.

We believe the bicycle with the greatest positive impact on the environment is a fading champion that has already served a meaningful life and is resuscitated for a second chance at glory.