You might not be old enough to remember this, but back in the day, even before the Golden Age Of Album Art, this was one of the ways you showed off your record collection and musical taste. Do that with your MP3s, yo.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein photo via 80’s Record Party.
Don’t you just love looking at your favorite catalog models? …Remember sneaking them into the bathroom for a little dreamy privacy, and — what? You didn’t get that way over the latest telephone models from American Bell and GTE?
Not the Flip-Phone or the Fashion Plate? Not even the Princess telephone?!
Huh.
I guess I’m just weird that way.
Two pages from the Fall-Winter 1983 Sears catalog.
Sexist ad on the back cover of Ranch Romances & Adventures (May, 1971) which clearly states that men who are trained in accounting are being moved up the ladder to important management positions. Way to go, LaSalle. Did the coursework include how to belittle the female accountants and ways to chase the secretary around the office?
Yogurt: Moichandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
If I had been older when Burger King employed these ads, I might have asked just what was in those burgers…
Image Tiki Ranch.
Because Blogger no longer allows you to host your own blog, Kitschy Kitschy Coo made the switch to WordPress in April of 2010, as a result any comments posted at the old blogger archives do not actually get posted — but people are still talking at/about our previous kitschy posts.
Like Betty, who left a batch of comments at the end of November; the emailed notices of which were stuffed in my spam. Arg! Betty, I feel so badly that I cannot contact you or publish your comments where they belong, so I’m going to hook you up here.
(The rest of you, just consider these your holiday leftovers to enjoy.)
Betty left the following comment at Thirteen Kitschy Christmas Crafty Things:
What! They didn’t coordinate the hairspray can with the toothbrush sleeve in leopard print?? My parents owned a craft shop in the 60s and even in the 60s some of these crafts were hard to swallow. Folks also loved to decopage and bejewel those wooden purses! Whooo hoooo 60s. PS. I’m doin some serious thinkin about that colored water in jars castle and if its the last thing I do this Christmas I AM making a foil angel for the table! Thank you so much. What a fun site you have. Betty
At Thirteen More Bits 0 Paper Scans:
The snowball fort and war was priceless. Adding the poem and this must go up on my wall somewhere.
With the exception of warmer parts of the US, hasn’t everyone had at least one snowball fort fight as a kid? It usually meant snow down the neck of our underdesigned outerwear, cold wet feet, and the unfortunate icy snowball in the face, glasses and all. Livin in TX today. Maybe, maybe it’ll snow again this year. Please, please, please.
Aluminum tree, covered chair, plastic drapery. Keeping it clean for baby Jesus (under the tree.)
I have that Santa Claus. I could live without the dangling greens but I would so love to have the signage!!! Betty
At Thanks For The Reindeer Sweater:
This sweater is flat out fabulous!
This sweater ROCKS!! And, it happens to look extremely good on the model. I’d buy it and if it didn’t fit…I’d frame it. Very, very cool. Betty
I don’t know about the rest of the stuff, but I sooo want that plastic bowling ball ornament / keepsake / gift certificate holder shown at the bottom of this 1962 ad. Puh-leeze, Santa?
(That Santa link is one of my favorite Christmas posts from the Kitschy Kitschy Coo archives; what’s yours?)
This bit of ephemera, Artex Hobby Products, Inc. Pattern Booklet No. 731, copyright 1973, illustrates a bit of the history of women working from home.
Artex Hobby Products, Inc., of Lima Ohio, is no longer in business; but it was a member of the Direct Selling Association. The following scans are of the pages outlining the benefits of becoming an Artex Instructor, i.e. selling the Artex product line via party plans, and the pages for the Artex Painting Class hostesses, who receive Artex merchandise as their Hostess Awards.
You can, quite easily, earn $10 to $100 per week in your spare time, without neglecting your family…by joinng the Artex Family today.
A trip to Paris, a color TV, even a new car could be yours as these are just a few of the many wonderful extras that are awarded to Artex Instructors throughout the year.
How? By dressing those wishbones up first.
Since this craft project idea comes from the 1962 New Ideas For Christmas, the Fawcett publication supposes you’ll have wishbones left over from Thanksgiving (How many wishbones does a turkey have?) — and the “wishbone figurine” suggestions are Santas, angels, etc.
But don’t be so limited in your thinking.
Why not save all the wishbones you can this holiday season (and whenever you can get them) and make little wishbone figures that look just like your ex, the guy foreclosing on your home or buying your repossessed storage unit, etc. That way when you break them, it will be much more therapeutic.
If not a little, err, sexually uncomfortable.
Two-page illustrated joke from The Electric Company Joke Book, edited by Byron Preiss, Jack Rickard drew the pictures. (A Golden Book, published by Western Publishing Company; copyright 1973, The Children’s Television Workshop).
I do love me the Easy Reader logo (lower right corner of the cover).
