Who do TEENAGERS DIG or HATE THE MOST?

It's the 1960s; somewhere between 1964 and probably '67. If you were a reader of Datebook magazine you were shown exactly who your peers dug and hated.

Imagine such a poll today. The putrid spilling of illogical hatred would be overwhelming.






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AMAZE FRIENDS! Speak French fluently!

J'ai l'habitude de ne pas avoir des attentes élevées pour un magasin d'aubaines. Sij'ai de la chance je pourrais trouver un livre de poche vintage avec une grande couverture ou d'un album ancien record. Ces jours-ci je trouve de plus en plus que les choses vraiment bonne est vendu en ligne par certains de ces magasins. Donc, généralement, j'évite la plupart des magasins d'aubaines. Mais alors un écart d'acquisition a ouvert ses portes à beaucoup de fanfare. Pas plus d'une sorte de magasin grungy, c'est un endroit très bien organisé qui donne même des rabaissupérieurs un jour par semaine. J'ai trouvé ce livre, Fractured français, la semaine dernière.

Maintenant, si tout cela semble être le français fracturées ne me blâmez pas. J'ai utilisé de traduction de Google pour créer le français. 

If the above appears to be very bad French, dare I say fractured French, don't blame me. I don't speak French so I let Google do the translating for me. Now if I did speak French it would most likely be as it appears in the book I'm featuring today.

I usually don’t hold high expectations for a thrift store. If I’m lucky I might find a vintage paperback with a great cover or an old record album. These days I’m finding more and more that the really good stuff is being sold online by these stores. So generally I avoid most thrift stores. But then a new Goodwill opened up to much fanfare. No longer a grungy sort of store, this is a very well organized place that even gives senior discounts one day a week. I found this book, Fractured French, last week.

The book, Fractured French, was originally published by Doubleday in 1950. The author was Fredrick S. Pearson with illustrations by Richard Dennison Taylor. The edition shown here was published in 1951 in Britain by Putnam.























I'm finding little biographical information about the author, Fredrick S. Pearson, other than he was the son and grandson of engineering financiers and he graduated from Yale in 1934.

I have found a bit more about the illustrator, Richard Dennison Taylor.

Richard Dennison Taylor (1902-1970) was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada. He studied art at the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, Central Technical School in Toronto, and the Ontario School of Art and Design. A comic strip entitled Mystery Man was his first published art appearing in the Toronto Evening Telegram.

In the 1930s his work began to appear in the New Yorker. Eventually he sold work to Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. His work also ran in Playboy.

He moved from Canada to Bethel, Connecticut where he met his future wife, Maxine McTavish, the daughter of Canadian Magazine art cirtic and editor Newton McTavish.

In 1947, the artist authored and illustrated a “how-to” book entitled Introduction to Cartooning, which was published by Watson-Guptill, Inc. He stressed the necessity of honing skills in composition and life drawing before tackling a professional career. Taylor went on to illustrate and publish many of his own humor books including The Better Taylors (1940), One for the Road (1949), Fractured French (1950), Compound Fractured French (1951), Fall of the Sparrow (1951), By the Dawn’s Ugly Light: A Pictorial Study of the Hangover (1952), and Butchered Baseball (1952).

To see more about Taylor visit Ask Art. To read a brief column in the December 30, 1950 New Yorker click here.

By the way, the new Blogger is buggier than a muggy moonless July evening in Florida stuck out in a swamp. I'm not happy.

1960 Boy Scout Handbook ADVERTISEMENTS: Part 5

Use a Kodak, earn a badge. I'd have enjoyed getting that badge.

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This is another ad from the 1960 Boy Scout Handbook.

The camera below belonged to my grandmother.

To see more vintage Kodak ads visit Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography and click on one of the following labels: Kodak advertisement, Kodak.

1960 Boy Scout Handbook ADVERTISEMENTS: Part 4

As a Boy Scout you never know what type of support you'll need.

Surely you'll need a reliable motor so you aren't left stranded alone in the middle of a lake as the sun goes down and the wolves start howling and you realize all you brought along, other than your fishing gear, was a flashlight which has batteries about to die, no sweater, and you're wishing you hadn't eaten that bologna sandwich at 9:30 in the morning. You're still trying to get a grasp on the whole "be prepared" motto.

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Johnson Outboards

Johnson Outboards was a US based manufacturer of outboard motors. The original company to make Johnson inboard motors and outboard motors was the Johnson Bros. Motor Company of Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. A few years after the Johnson brothers' factory in Terre Haute was destroyed by a tornado in March 1913, the brothers relocated to South Bend, Indiana and then Waukegan, Illinois. The company was first acquired by Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) and then later by Bombardier Recreational Products.

Today

Bombardier Recreational Products no longer sells outboards under the Johnson brand, as they have moved all sales entirely to Evinrude Outboard Motors. They support existing Johnson outboard motors through servicing and parts. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

To see an old Johnson Sea-Horse neon sign click here.

But at least a particular part of your body will stay warmer through the cold long night.

The jockstrap was invented in 1874 by C. F. Bennett of a Chicago sporting goods company, Sharp & Smith, to provide comfort and support for bicycle jockeys riding the cobblestone streets of Boston. In 1897 Bennett's newly-formed Bike Web Company patented and began mass-producing the Bike Jockey Strap. The Bike Web Company later became known as the Bike Company. Today, Bike is still the market leader in jockstrap sales. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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1960 Boy Scout Handbook ADVERTISEMENTS: Part 3

More ads from the 1960 Boy Scout Handbook.

This one seems a little on the odd side. They make a point in the copy of saying that the "forged head just can't fly off" but then they name this thing the "Jet Rocket Scout Axe." Am I missing something here? Was it helpful to have you thinking this thing was going to take off into space and then cover their butts by saying "can't fly off"?

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1960 Boy Scout Handbook ADVERTISEMENTS: Part 2

The one thing advertised over and over again in the Boy Scout handbook are guns. Lots of rifles. I think a total of 7 ads.

A reader of yesterday's post asked if I knew if the Boy Scouts sold anything like the Girl Scouts selling cookies. I can't think of anything. Anyone ever hear of Boy Scouts going door to door selling something?

Ever hear of the Winchester Mystery house built by Sarah Winchester? If not, you might be interested in reading about how some of the Winchester fortune was spent by clicking here.

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1960 Boy Scout Handbook ADVERTISEMENTS: Part 1

My last post was about the 1960 Boy Scout Handbook. I mentioned I'd be featuring some ads from the book. There are a total of over 40 ads so sit back and go Scout shopping. One particular item will show up over and over again, but not on the first spread.

Remember, items are for honest and trustworthy Scouts only.

Click on the "Boy Scout" label below to see previous scouting posts. Or click on "Coca-Cola" or "Coca Cola" to see vintage Coke ads.

And visit Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography to see some old scouting photos from Scotland.

1960 BOY SCOUT HANDBOOK

This weeks Sepia Saturday theme is scouting. What better time to show some images from the 1960 Boy Scout Handbook? I bought this book at a used store in Burbank a very long time ago and probably paid no more than a dollar. It's a wonderful book with a Norman Rockwell piece on the cover.

Following are the front and back cover of the book along with some interior spreads. I will be featuring more of the book in the coming weeks, including some of the vintage ads.

And to see some vintage scouting photos visit my Tattered and Lost Photography site.

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In 1981 the band Oingo Boingo (who used to put on great live shows) released an album called Only a Lad thats cover parodied the Rockwell handbook cover.

ANIMAL PAPER DOLLS to Dress

I saw that Linda at The Paper Collector had posted this little bear. This encouraged me to take some shots of the whole book.

I purchased this many years ago; fell in love with at first sight and had to have it. I'd have been nuts for this set as a child but have no memory of ever seeing it.

It was published in 1950 by the Saalfield Publishing Company.

I don't know who the illustrator was. That's a shame, because it's just such a happy set.

I don't know if a set like this would sell today, but I'm betting it would. I mean really...a bowlegged monkey in a pink skirt and boots? How can you say no?

THE BEATLES Movie Tie-In Paperback Writers

After the previous post about Beatle bubblegum cards for the movie A Hard Day's Night I thought I'd post the two movie tie-in books I have.

During the hey-day of The Beatles I was always checking magazine stands for anything Beatles. Buying records and magazines was how my allowance was spent. I still have the specialty magazines I bought, but all of the old Tiger Beats, etc. were cut up and now I'm left with scraps floating loose in an old binder.

Each of these books has an 8 page photo insert, the main reason, I'm sure, that I bought the books. I haven't seen either of these movies in decades. I don't know why they aren't shown on any of the premium channels. Seems a shame to me, especially A Hard Day's Night. Help not so much.

And then there's this magazine full of promotional snapshots taken during the filming of A Hard Day's Night. Though there are some great photos inside, the cover shots are just plain weird. It seems someone went to town airbrushing the boy's faces with retouching pancake makeup. It's just odd.

To see more movie tie-in paperbacks, not The Beatles, click here, here, and here.

FRANK H. MOSS and the Cola Wars

This laminated ID card of Frank H. Moss dates from 1948. This is from Bert's collection of photographs and ephemera.

Was Frank a low level paper pusher while stationed in Yokohama following the war? Or is Frank the person responsible for writing a book entitled "The History of Coca-Cola in the Japanese Market as I Lived and Worked It"? According to what I find in Google Books Frank's book was not published and currently sits in a box in Coca-Cola's archives.

So we'll probably never know what part this Frank played in the cola wars following World War II or if he played any part at all.

HANDPAINTED CHINESE postcard

This interesting card has no real history for me. Found at an estate sale a few years ago, I was taken by the image and the fact that it was handmade. It's a one of a kind, even if the maker sat and made dozens of these. Each one will be unique. The background is painted on the card. The pieces that comprise the image of the fellow, with his clothes made from stamps, are glued onto the card. I have no idea of the age, though "1921" is written on the back.

Update: Christine, from The Daily Postcard, has informed me that a card such as this would be called a "macerated stamp postcard". Thanks Christine! Once I figure out how to pronounce this I'm going to slip it into a conversation.

Vintage CAT VALENTINE

There's a storm coming, actually a series of storms. If they're as bad as they say...and really, I rarely trust weather reports...I will probably lose my internet connection via satellite most of the week. So I'm rushing around trying to get work done, uploads, downloads, whatever load I can bear. And one of my priorities is getting items into my CafePress shop. So that's why I haven't been posting fun new odd items the past few days. I've started speaking like Dick and Jane, "Hurry! Hurry! Fast! Fast!"

I introduce to you the most recent item for sale at Tattered and Lost Ephemera Gift Shop. This is my take on a vintage early 20th-Century mechanical Valentine, originally made in Germany. Those who've been around here before might have seen this same cat posted last year as an animated file. The little cat rolls its eyes and sticks out its tongue. This year I've put it on a piece of lace that belonged to my grandmother.

The next items for sale will be a lot less romantic and a lot more snarky. Stay tuned.

Don't let B.O. RUIN YOUR LIFE..buoy

Just how chatty did advertisers get? Well they put a babe with B.O. in a bathtub...nekid. Seriously, I don't need to write anything for this one. It writes itself and I know all of you will enjoy the latest from the funny papers.

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It's the SUNDAY FUNNIES meets the DOUBLE MINT TWINS of 1934!

For those who have been coming here for awhile you'll be familiar with the Double Mint Twins of 1934. Heck, there are people all over the net who are now familiar with the Twins judging by how often they show up in searches. But just in case you can go here to see the post.

Now why would I bring this up? Well, just take a look at today's Sunday Funny and see if you don't see a certain similarity. And dare I say it...do I mention its name again? LOG CABIN SYRUP. There, I've said it and readers are clicking off the page as fast as they arrived. NO, NO, NOT MORE LOG CABIN! Calm your

fears worried readers. There is no running can of syrup in this post. What we do have is competition for Log Cabin. Another sleep aid, but these folks are serious about it. I'm thinking a breakfast of pancakes with Log Cabin and a glass of Ovaltine and you're out like a light!

This add appeared in the December 1933 Delineator.

So what have we learned from all of this?

1. Double Mint Gum is good for your complexion.
2. Log Cabin Syrup will put you to sleep, disrupt your marriage, make children disappear.
3. Ovaltine, taking itself far too serious, "restores your tissues as you sleep."

Who said we didn't need the FDA? Leave it to advertisers to tell the truth.

Now, who out there amongst you is going to rewrite the speech bubbles? I'm thinking there's a Scot in Spain just itching to go for it.

And just for snark sake