Time has a way of erasing the past. The centuries turn great monuments and civilizations into dust. The seasons wear down our bodies and eventually return them to the earth. There are potholes. And, in the case of longtime Bay View comic book shop Collector’s Edge (2330 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.), there are those front windows that clearly used to have window-sized posters in them, but are now filled with nothing but the cracked and faded remains of said posters.
What were those posters in the windows of Collector’s Edge? You know, before time had its way with them?
Ponder no longer, True Believers! Bay View resident/musician/organizer/legend Ted Jorin recently reached out with an ingenious answer to this pressing neighborhood question. We’ll let him explain:
I have lived in Bay View for over 25 years, and recently debated with some friends and neighbors about the decaying posters in the windows at Collector’s Edge. No one could quite remember what they were, the most common answer was the Simpsons, but that’s a Mandela effect, Homer Simpson’s visage is still there and mostly intact, protected in the vestibule.
My astute youngest brother, a digital native, found that Google Maps Street View allows one to view older images, so I used that to create this very short reverse timelapse video and reveal the answer.
Here’s the video, which begins in 2025 and ends in the long-forgotten year of 2011. (That’s 15 years ago!) And yeah, a quick Google Image search reveals the answer, too, but this reverse timelapse video is way more fun. Thanks, Ted!
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