So much fun to read your impressions of this event. I'd love to go to something like this if there's one near me in Indiana.
I guessed correctly on the paper catalog (in fairness, I saw it first in another of your posts), but thought you would go for the Venetian blinds catalog.
Your comments about the risk material, followed by the reference to blinds, reminded me immediately of an old joke. My dad loves to tell. It’s the one about a naked lady getting out of the shower at the sound of someone at her door. “Blind man“ the man says, followed by…
I would have loved to have flipped through the home catalog as it's very MCM. Best part "A Convenient Living Book" as though an Inconvenient Living Book would hold any appeal!
I guessed you bought the smaller item, because how and why else would you have a video on upholstery? But I'm stunned you didn't get the Milwaukee-based catalog full of meat items!
What caught my attention what that some of the "World Champion" patches are incomplete / missing stitching.
And the 2 pulp magazines in your display, I am 99% sure those were either featured or discussed on American Pickers way back (is the artist Bruce Minney?)
What a fun event to visit! I would have guessed the bacon cellophane for one of your purchases, but I couldn't tell if those were all sold together or separately.
I never heard "emphemera" the noun until I worked in an academic library in technical services. A coworker processed discards and would go through them and remove any newspaper clippings, postcards or other items used as bookmarks. She put them in an open box and we were free to take anything we wanted. I don't remember any really strange items she found. It may be an apocryphal library story that someone once found a strip of bacon used as a bookmark in a public library book.
I used to have a gorgeous color photo of my grandfather with that 1953 Nash Airflyte. He was a dealer
So much fun to read your impressions of this event. I'd love to go to something like this if there's one near me in Indiana.
I guessed correctly on the paper catalog (in fairness, I saw it first in another of your posts), but thought you would go for the Venetian blinds catalog.
Would’ve loved the blinds catalog but it was way too pricey.
My grandmother had that ice-cube thingie!
Your comments about the risk material, followed by the reference to blinds, reminded me immediately of an old joke. My dad loves to tell. It’s the one about a naked lady getting out of the shower at the sound of someone at her door. “Blind man“ the man says, followed by…
I have always loved seeing ephemera from the first half of the 20th Century. Small works of art, each one of them.
I would have loved to have flipped through the home catalog as it's very MCM. Best part "A Convenient Living Book" as though an Inconvenient Living Book would hold any appeal!
I am shocked you did not buy the Mets item
Too huge, and looks red instead of orange. I’m not surprised he didn’t buy it, but I get why it made the article
I guessed you bought the smaller item, because how and why else would you have a video on upholstery? But I'm stunned you didn't get the Milwaukee-based catalog full of meat items!
Too pricey.
"An Unexcelled Product" - love that boldness.
Nice pickup Paul!
I just love the word "unexcelled"; we've lost so much richness in our language
Titter magazine sounds like something Elon Musk would buy and change the name to XXX.
My local public library had a book called "Titters" that was very similar in tone and content. 12-year old me would steal way to look through it.
They'd burn the building down now if it was on the shelves
Was that the book written by a bunch of SNL/Lampoon women? https://www.amazon.com/Titters-first-collection-humor-women/dp/0020407009
The Super Dual Waffle Mould..."Aristocrat" of All Waffle Moulds! They don't build them like that anymore.
"Emphemera" me think of the TOOL song "Pneuma" as they use rare and obscure words as titles.
*Also, one of those police mugshots has a pretty vague, yet lurid description of the crime...
What caught my attention what that some of the "World Champion" patches are incomplete / missing stitching.
And the 2 pulp magazines in your display, I am 99% sure those were either featured or discussed on American Pickers way back (is the artist Bruce Minney?)
What a fun event to visit! I would have guessed the bacon cellophane for one of your purchases, but I couldn't tell if those were all sold together or separately.
I never heard "emphemera" the noun until I worked in an academic library in technical services. A coworker processed discards and would go through them and remove any newspaper clippings, postcards or other items used as bookmarks. She put them in an open box and we were free to take anything we wanted. I don't remember any really strange items she found. It may be an apocryphal library story that someone once found a strip of bacon used as a bookmark in a public library book.