but the shelves were filled with a host of other things : tennis rackets , hockey sticks , umbrellas , a spade , a notebook computer , a wooden leg , several mugs , dozens of shoes , pairs of binoculars , a small log , six glove puppets , a lava lamp , various cds , records ( lps , 45s , and 78s ) , cassette tapes and eight-tracks , dice , toy cars , assorted pairs of dentures , watches , flashlights , four garden gnomes of assorted sizes ( two fishing , one of them mooning , the last smoking a cigar ) , piles of newspapers , magazines , grimoires , three-legged stools , a box of cigars , a plastic nodding-head alsatian , socks ... the room was a tiny empire of lost property .