Would you spend $42 on a commemorative Town of Flin Flon coin from 1967? Or $5 on vintage Flin Flon Hotel matchbook? How about $28 for your own “Straight Outta Flin Flon” t-shirt?
Those are among the Flin Flon-related deals (?) now available on eBay, that once-mythic trading post of the worldwide web.
Type “Flin Flon” into eBay’s trusty search engine and you’re flooded (as of Wednesday) with 114 matches. This is after you ignore the website’s opening question to your query: “Did you mean: flip flop?”
“Flip flop” has over 135,000 matches, so we can see why a name as unusual as Flin Flon might be questioned.
In any event, other matches related to our community include a 1960s-era Flin Flon postcard depicting Sipple Hill. Another postcard was put out by the Oreland Motel in the 1950s. The asking price for each card is several dollars.
A Flin Flon Bombers puck signed by Bobby (well, Bob) Clarke is going for $46 or your best offer. Elsewhere, a sterling Flintabbatey Flonatin charm, paired with a Manitoba Golden Boy charm, is available for $7.
There is also 1990s-era lip gloss called Flin Flon, and CDs from the American band known as Flin Flon.
If you’re looking for an interesting keepsake, get out your credit card!
