This last weekend, I was in St Louis with the wife and son (and some friends from Chicago.).

We went to this place called 'City Museum', and I tell you that if you have kids aged 4 and up you MUST go.

They are a giant playground for kids AND adults.  They have this incredible Rube Goldberg type climbing area out front with slides and cages, ball pits, walkways, ladders, stairs, tunnels...and on and on.

Inside, they had all sorts of slides and areas to explore and crawl through...you could spend hours just trying to find your way around....squeezing through maze-like nooks and crannies.

And the BEST part....a 7 story corkscrew slide...Yes, that's right, SEVEN stories!!!! (The only bad part about the 7 story slide...you have to go up 7 stories to get to it...no elevator here, folks.)

Here's their official website: City Museum

In addition to the climbing and 'spelunking' type areas, they have a room filled with ramps and ropes and walls designed, I think, for no other purpose than getting your kid to tire themselves out.

Highly recommended if you can get there.....

First one, here.

Okay, I was at a little antique store in a town nearby that had just opened up.  I came across this little postcard flip book.  It had single panel cartoons, some of which were racially stereotypical, others which were a little like some of Crumb's work.  It was from 1953.  Very neat little item, and I am scanning pics to the CPG fourms so everyone can look at it.

What was the most interesting is that no one brought it in for sale.  The owners found the postcard book during their remodeling...it was stuck behind some very old fixturing near one of the front windows.  It actually appears that this thing was lost in this little storefront when it was new.  So, if you go to an old flea market or antique store, check under kickplates and behind fixtures...you may find something back there no one knew about.

Oh, and if you are seeing this, are into comics, and are NOT part of the comicspriceguide.com community, you really SHOULD be.