White Glove

When was the last time you stepped into a phone booth?

Odds are you can’t even find one these days when, before the cell phone, they were stationed throughout the community.

Thirty-five years ago  big hair and tight jeans were in.

Movies like “E.T.” and “Poltergeist” dominated theaters. It was also the year for little, look-alike hatchback cars, sweatbands and a cross country singer named Willie Nelson.

For 50 years sharp-eyed editors hunched hundreds of hours at complicated cast iron contraptions to cut and splice Hollywood films.

It was vintage carnival glass that caught the eye of The White Glove last week in Wilmington. The lime green tall footed dessert bowl was spotted among the knick knacks at the Trinity Knot, located at 119 N. Water St.