Jerry Garcia's appliances to be auctioned

Miami Herald ^ | 11/30/2005 | Associated Press

[Fintan]

SAN FRANCISCO - Jerry Garcia's dishwasher, toilets and other home appliances will be auctioned by a nonprofit group hoping to raise more than $100,000.

The items, which also include stereo cabinets, cupboards and a freezer, will be available for bidding on the online auction site eBay from Dec. 18 through Dec. 24.

Revenue will benefit the Sophia Foundation, a San Francisco Bay area nonprofit that aids children and families during marital separations and divorces, said the group's chairman, Henry Koltys.

Koltys bought the Nicasio, Calif. home of Garcia, the lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, in 1997, two years after Garcia died of a heart attack.

An appraiser has valued the items at about $75,000, but Koltys said he expects people will end up spending more.

"There's a lot of Deadheads out there with money, and they want a piece of Jerry somehow."

ON THE NET

http://www.sophia-foundation.org/

http://www.ebay.com/

 

 

[Fintan]

Jerry Garcia's toilet. The mind boggles...

[Northern Yankee]

Oh... if toilets could talk?

Can you see some poor schlep coming home after the auction:

"Hey honey... look what I bought, Jerry Garcia's toilet!"

Uh-huh!

[wildehunt]

There's a "pot-ta-pis-in" joke there somewhere..

I shall let it pass..

[Northern Yankee]

LOL...

Good money down the drain!

[Northern Yankee]

"There's a lot of Deadheads out there with money, and they want a piece of Jerry somehow."

In regards to the toilet, they might be a bit too late!

[Panerai]

I am sure those will all sell really well, after all if there were man with bad enough taste and judgment to buy those cheap Garcia ties, this will sell.

[InvisibleChurch]

"There's a lot of Deadheads out there with money, and they want a piece of Jerry somehow."

I thought property was a crime to these people.

[Edit35]

Can I have his bong?

[Gay State Conservative]

Can I have his bong?

No,that went to Mountain Woman,as did his case of industrial-strength syphilis.

[synbad600]

One man gathers what another man spills.

[Fintan]

Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes,
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.
Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may decline.
Did it matter, does it now? Stephen would answer if he only knew how.
Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell,
Hell halfway twixt now and then,
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing "What for?" across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
Several seasons with their treasons,
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.
Did he doubt or did he try? Answers aplenty in the bye and bye,
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills.
Saint Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain,
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,
Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.
Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman, spinnin' that curious sense of your own.
Can you answer? Yes I can. But what would be the answer to the answer man?
 

 

[weegee]

Well that's ONE WAY to get a non-low flow toilet. Call it a collectible treasure.

[John Will]

Can I have the pot,

the flower pot i mean.

[Victoria Delsoul]

In regards to the toilet, they might be a bit too late!

Too late for the toilet? That spells trouble, ewww.

[kstewskis]

Too late for the toilet? That spells trouble, ewww.

No, I think he meant too late to get "a piece of Jerry."

Yeah, ewww....

[Northern Yankee]

Too late for the toilet? That spells trouble, ewww.

No, I think he meant too late to get "a piece of Jerry."

This too shall pass! ; )