Yet another day of waiting for the bank. <sigh> In the meantime, I’d like to share some pretty — and some not-so-pretty — things with you. There are tons of pictures I could have selected for this post, but I narrowed it down to three.
Things I’d like to have
First, this pic from a 1958 John Plain catalog. Why don’t they make women’s shavers pretty like this anymore?
Stars, ballerinas …. wouldn’t this make shaving your legs a little less mundane?
Things I’d never like to have, no matter how many people tell me how scrumptious they are:
For this last one, I’m going to warn you: if you have just eaten, do not — I repeat, DO NOT — scroll down. The image created in your mind will haunt you for days.
Final category:
Things that make me grateful that I live in modern America: (click for bigger picture)
This was an ad from a 1903 bound collection of School Journal.
The last line of the testimonial almost sounds like a punch line. One can only hope that Mr. William Brown was a pseudonym and that 184 Franklin Street was an empty lot. I mean, if I just told the word that I “passed” a thousand tape worms out of my rectum, I would NOT be putting my full name and address in the ad. I don’t care how much they paid me. I hope William Brown felt lots better and lived out his remaining days in peace.
Have you noticed that the things that were made back in the 40s and 50s are better than the crap you find nowadays? My mother-in-law took really good care of her razor and other assorted objects from the 50s and 60s. She was a bit of a nut, but that’s beside the point. Still, everything she had was well built and nowadays, everything is crap plastic or something cheap and breakable. I think the manufacturers want you to break it so that you’ll go out and buy it new again.
Oh, and as for knobs – My whole house was filled with that gold knob stuff – gross me out. I replaced all of them with the nickel finish knobs, fixtures, handles, and now I want bronze. Never satisfied I’ll tell ya. But, my hubby won’t let me change them and I can’t say that I blame him. We spent a fortune on the nickel finish stuff.
Susan
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