Tag: 1950s

GE Kitchens Are Next To Godliness

The cover of God In My Kitchen: Fifty-Two Thoughts For Homemakers, by Dorothy C. Haskin. (I’m giving one away in this contest! Or you can find it on Amazon.)

In the acknowledgements:

The kitchen shown on the cover was designed by Home Guide Inc., using General Electric appliances. We are indebted to these organizations for the picture.

Personally, I never got over that documentary we were shown in collage. Ever since then, whenever someone says “GE” or “General Electric,” I scream, “Babies born without skulls!” …I guess that’s one type of atomic kitchen.

Hey, Lazy American, Make Your Own Souvenir

Of course, since you are a lazy American, you’ll need a kit to do that… They knew that in the 1950s. Hence this vintage souvenir craft kit sold in Florida, for folks to make a necklace and bracelet from polished shells and beads. Some assembly required. Via Jones Antiques.

“Dead. Wrapped in plastic.”

Mitch O’Connell presents these vintage ads presenting babies wrapped in plastic. Can’t help but think of Twin Peaks; I’m that old. Bonus points for the contradictory use of storks.

(Found via Sloth Unleashed who found it viacargohoo /BoingBoing.)

Get Yer Hillbilly Britches!

“The single suspender accents a new slant!”  And they go so dern well with bandana shirts too. Amazingly, the hillbilly look was expensive. A $6.95 pair of pants in 1956 is equal to $56 today; a $4.95 top is equal to $40 today.

Vintage fashion Thermo-Jac ad from the Amarillo Globe-Times, November 9, 1956.