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Lester Glassner, Collector of Pop Culture Artifacts, Is Dead at 70 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Sometimes a seemingly innocuous act redirects a life, and thus was Mr. Glassner’s path rerouted. From that day forward, over nearly half a century, Mr. Glassner became professionally acquisitive, amassing a renowned collection of pop culture artifacts, largely from the 1940s, the decade of his childhood — thousands and thousands of items that reflected his love of movies and kitsch and that, like as not, had entered the world on a shelf at a five-and-dime store.

Dolls and wind-up toys, plastic fruit sculptures and costume jewelry, sunglasses and makeup kits, greeting cards and matchbooks, salt and pepper shakers and Christmas ornaments, not to mention movie stills, posters, cardboard cutouts, books, magazines, records, and 8- and 16-millimeter films: they made up a museum-size collection. And they turned his longtime home, a brownstone on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, into, literally, a private museum, one that Mr. Glassner would gladly show off to friends, and friends of friends.