I’ve got enough of ’em, so why not?
One of those Valentines kids give out at school, this vintage greeting card is of an Eskimo child who says “Yukon rub noses with me, Valentine!”
No maker, just 750/8 Made in U.S.A. printed at the bottom on the front.
Of course Edgar Bergen as there with Hedda Hopper, Charlie McCarthy, and Hedy LaMarr too. a href=http://www.inherited-values.com/2012/01/vintage-jospeh-jasqur-photos-up-for-auction/ target=_blank>Joseph Jasqur photo via.
I’m guessing from this vintage ephemera set I’ve listed that Emling Products was, if not like S&H Green Stamps, operating some sort of point rewards system for shoppers back in the day. I don’t know anything about Emling. If you do, please share!
A vintage Seasons Greetings holiday card with poinsettias on the front. Inside it reads:
Greetings:Just as friendship grows and flourishes at the Holiday Season, so it is our sincere wish that our business relationship shall grow in mutual understanding and strength.
Best of everything for Christmas and New Year’s.
From the EMLING “Business Family”
I think it might be a Gibson greeting card — on back: E. 63, made in USA, what looks like a G.Co. It’s one of those “money” sized greeting cards, measuring roughly 8 by 3 1/2 inches.
Tucked inside, a gift certificate for “Five Hundred Merchandise Points” which reads as follows:
You may use these points at any time to obtain merchandise listed in our point catalogue. Ask your Emling representative for our point catalogue.When you purchase Emling Products your representative will give you additional point coupons throughout the year.
Gift certificate measures approximately 8 by 3 1/2 inches. At the bottom of the paper gift certificate: copyright GOES 417.
I had a whole plastic baggy full of these vintage / retro plastic toy puppets from NSP Northern States power Co. One side has Reddy Kilowatt, the other Reddy Flame. I’m not sure gas and electricity are things you want to encourage your kids to play with but… Or small plastic bags either. But you can catch the remaining ones at Listia and eBay.
I posted a vintage blue poodle treasury at Etsy, of which this one is my current favorite. Along with being vintage, blue, and a poodle — wearing glasses, yet! — this one combines my love of fur on figurines and is both a bobblehead and a bank!
It would have been this one, but I already have it!
The Crosley Spinnerette USB Turntable
The arctic cold has hit us in the northern plains, which is exactly the time that a person goes to look for gloves, but only finds glove. Don’t toss out that solo glove (or just throw it back in the closet like we do) – get your scissors, some thread, and a needle, and turn your sad, lonely glove into a happy, fuzzy squrrel!
Full instructions are found here, via Etsy, and the original instructions come from the adorable book Happy Gloves: Charmingly Soft Friends Made From Gloves, by Miyako Kanamori.
Remember back, when the Internet was young, and the most fascinating thing was to search for the exotic… Finding pages published by people far away from you, on subjects and things you’d never heard of before. Now, one of the most important things is to find things right in your own backyard. Things you know about — enough to want, anyway. If the price is right. Things you want, and at the best price; thanks, Internet.
Sure, some of the exotic thrills are still a large part of our daily Internet use. But beyond the entertainment and educational value, so much of our time is now spent comparison shopping — and we seek the added bonus of supporting our local economies. Well, maybe it’s just the convenience of saving on shipping combined with the instant gratification of a local pickup. Tomato, tomatoe; the results are the same.
I was tooling about such a place, www.CentrSource.ca, “Things you love, where you live.” Unexpectedly, however, I found myself discovering the delightful Kitsch Hotel, a youth hostel in Lisbon, Portugal. It’s not near home, but it is a thrifty way to travel. And it’s loaded with kitsch!
Photos via The Kitsch Hostel Blog. A number of clever ideas seen here sent me back to CentrSource for project supplies. …Ah, the circle of kitsch.
Cameo’s Alligator Woman had to start somewhere…
Via Mothic Flights & Flutterings:
Toddler with a group of reptilian friends at The Luna Park Alligator Farm in Lincoln Heights, California – c. 1920s
