Ad of the Day: Marvalon Shelf Liners , 1961

A far cry from the bland beige, eggshell, and white we're subjected to these days. I wish home product designers (and consumers) of today had half the cojones that mid century designers had.....



Speaking of cojones, these days it would take a man with rather large ones to pull off a fabulous butter yellow paneled bar....but in the '60s, that's just the way they rolled. Pun intended.

Scandinavian Scrapbook--Coca Cola 'Pause For Living', 1962

These cute little booklets were printed by the Coca Cola Bottling Company from 1954-1969. I've got several that I found in my great-grandmother's stash and they're fab! This is my favourite article:

Vintage Interiors-1963

Hi Hi, Teapots!

While flipping through one of my vintage magazines, I found a few fab pages that I thought you might all like! The Magazine is Family Circle, the date is January 1963, and the article is Your Keys To Good Decorating:









By the early 1960's, sleek but traditional was the look prized by the average American housewife. Traditional and colonial pieces were often combined with modern, streamlined pieces to give an updated look that waved goodbye to the atomic, stylized 1950's.

Key colours were artichoke, avacado, gold, and saffron. Shag rugs came to prominance. Stripes and Swirls were paired with ethnic patterns. Postmodernism was finally beginning to rear its head in middle America.

Here's today's playlist, all top 40 tunes in '63:



So long, my little honeybees!

DollyBird