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It’s a common situation I’m sure we’ve all found ourselves in at one time or another. You’re ridin’ the range on your trusty horse, when suddenly a grizzly bear rises up behind a rock, all lethal claws and fangs… Continue reading The World-famous Winchester
It shocked me to learn Fredrick’s of Hollywood was the largest purveyor of lingerie before Victoria’s Secret. It shocked me to look at these pages and see the ancient sexism and tawdry attitudes… Continue reading “Stop Traffic – Go Spring Fashion”
Top Value Stamps, 1969: You might expect to buy a model train made of diamonds from a catalog if the company is Neiman-Marcus, but would you expect to buy a full-size plane from a Top Value trading stamps catalog? Continue reading The Sky’s the Limit
It’s a total mystery why barrels suddenly became a decorating trend in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But JC Penney was on top of it when they pictured this room… Continue reading We’ll have a Barrel of Fun
We’re dipping once more into the 1968 JC Penney catalog, this time to see what the groovy kids were wearing in the late 1960s. Dennis the Menace here seems to be dressed in Lego colors… Continue reading Fisher-Price Females and Lego Lads
We’ve looked at ladies fashion from Penney’s in 1968 — Now here are the men. Can you say “Groovy, Baby”? Continue reading “The latest look in masculine elegance”
The 1960s certainly show their share of…”interesting” fashion statements, as designers tried toincorporate the decade’s informality and youth orientation into clothes and hair. Some things made the grade. Others, not so much… Continue reading Hat, wig, or go natural?
Garden catalogs are — pardon the pun – a perennial. Wards devoted the first 11 pages of this 1961 garden catalog to no less than 73 varieties of roses… Continue reading A Riot of Roses
This 1961 Christmas catalog from Neiman Marcus, the Texas based luxury department store didn't have His and Hers gifts or a Cessna airplane like the previous year's edition. But it did have luxury in abundance… Continue reading Platinum, Diamonds, and Ermine for Christmas
In the 1950s, 60s, and even 70s, lots of men (invariably men) were encouraged to hone their hobbyist “Do It Yourself” skills. Heathkits were the pinnacle of DIY in electronics – everything from test equipment, oscilloscopes, an early analog computer (in the 1950s!)…and television sets. Continue reading Building your own TV…”Not as outrageously impractical as you might suspect”
