Kiss My Knits!

Oct 1950 Gourmet Magazine.
The Surgeon General’s Warning didn’t come into being until 1966.

Picked up a couple of things at the Sleepy Poet Antique Mall on Saturday, including the Oct 1950 Gourmet magazine.
Ah, vintage ads, how I love you.

I’ve been needing a new legion of minions to do my bidding. This looks like just the ticket.

The ad’s from 1944 – I wonder if it’s still valid…

From June 1962 “Motion Picture” magazine. One has to wonder what exactly is in that chemical pad.

Also, I read a rumor that Liz Taylor and Richard Burton have something going on on the set of Cleopatra, but I don’t believe it.

Just wanted to be sure everybody knew about We Choose The Moon.

From Geek.com: “The goal of the website is to allow visitors to experience the Apollo 11 mission in real time. In fact, the website will go live at 9:32am on July 16th which is exactly 40 years to the minute after the historic launch.

The website is sponsored by the JFK Presidential Library and Museum because it was under President Kennedy’s direction that a mission to the moon be planned and executed. To allow visitors to experience the Apollo 11 mission as it happened the website utilizes archival audio, video, photos and “real time” transmissions. Besides the AOL powered website, visitors can also receive mission updates through three different Twitter accounts.”

The “launch” has already taken place, but stage four will be coming up in a couple of hours. It’s neat to tune in and hear the audio as it was spoken, real time but separated by 40 years.

I’m also uploading some of my old Life magazine finds. At right, Michael Collins proves that a man separated from society will always try to grow an ill-advised mustache. Even in space.

Godspeed, Apollo 11!

Spring-Summer 1962 McCall’s magazine
Craft project – tennis racket cozy
Somehow I doubt this will strike fear into your opponent’s heart.

The 40th anniversary of the first time a human being walked on the moon is upon us. We know now what happened, but let me share with you this little gem from 1961, well before the details were ironed out.

More below the cut.

Emily and I were just outside playing with the hose, and some evil insect bit or stung me twice on my right hand. Once when I was going to turn the water up higher, and once when I was going back to Emily. Why twice in the same area? That’s my knitting hand, and it hurts! Damn you, nature!

Still no time for a faboo entry. In the meantime, smoke ’em if you got ’em. Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake wouldn’t steer you wrong!

I’ve just been busy.

I am alive and well and back in Charlotte. Until I get a chance to do a proper update, I leave you with this gem from McCall Needlework Knitting Crocheting, Summer 1944. He-man indeed. Leaving aside the question of why you have to “butch up” a design made for an infant, I guess with the menfolk away at war, you dressed the boys in whatever you wanted and called it whatever you wanted.