I felt bad today. David Wayne and I went to grocery store. Wrote letters.
Since there's not much to talk about once again, we'll take another trip in the Wayback Time Machine. Today we'll revisit the August 27, 1967 diary entry, where the bank collection grows by not one but two additional banks. Here is a picture of the Buddha bank (purchased at Japanese Deer Park) holding the obligatory quarter between his toes.
You can't really tell due to how out of focus that picture is, but this one is ceramic with a rough finish instead of smooth like most of the others. In the bottom right of the photo you can see just a bit of a sticker that's coming off. That sticker says "HOTEI Brings You Luck." Hotei (aka Budai or Pu-Tai) is often mistaken for Guatama Buddha (the real Buddha on whose teachings Buddhism was founded). So it is often called the Fat Buddha in the west.
The other bank purchased that day was this covered wagon from Knott's Berry Farm.
This one is smooth ceramic with some really nice detail. Whoever painted the words on this one certainly could have taken lessons from the person who painted "Marineland" on the whale bank.
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