Clark: Collector Liquidates Ash Trays

I get asked all the time to update some of the “big” stories that I’ve been lucky enough to stumble across in my 97 years of writing columns for the hometown tattler. Well, like a full-service massage parlor, I aim to squeeze. So on Monday morning I boarded my Vista Guzzler and set sail east to revisit the Spokane Valley’s foremost ashtray collector. I’ll be honest. I hadn’t given much thought to Ray Blowers or the tale I once wrote about his ashtray addiction. It was 1995, after all. But Blowers beamed me an email last week to jog my memory and to make an announcement. Ashtray Ray is making a serious attempt to liquidate his entire 1,000-plus ashtray inventory. What a shocker. This is the Spokane Valley equivalent of the Guggenheim unloading all of its Picassos/ Doug Clark , SR. More here.

Question: What do you collect?