amylsacks' photos with the keyword: lamp

"English's Choice Antiques. Rt. 1, Box 299, Hiway 99E, Hubbard, Oregon, 97032, Phone 981-9821. Estates bought and sold. Furniture, old glass, china, lamps, brass, etc. OLD TREASURES YOU'D LIKE TO LIVE WITH. Closed Monday & Tuesday. Techniphoto. Henry McGrew Printing, K.C. Mo., 61038, Action Color Adv., 2502 SE Belmont, Portland, Ore., 234-3689. I did some research, but couldn't find any history of this shop or the folks who ran it, alas. So the date range is just a guess. There's no phone area code listed, and Oregon got its first one in 1947. But this card looks much more recent than that. Anyway, off to the more important stage: turning it into a pixel-art game where a cat raids the shop and you have to distract them before they can break everything. :D Slightly enlarged to show detail.

Feeling old-timey Modern again. :) Sunset magazine, April 1955: Left column and second ad in middle column. The New Yorker , May 9th 1953: First and third ad in middle column. Sunset , October 1955: Right column.

Everything in the living room goes with gray flannel suits! Yay, Fifties! Front cover of a 16-page craft magazine published by The American Thread Company ("Aunt Lydia's Star Spun," "Aunt Lydia's Heavy Rug" yarns), New York, N.Y.

"Anything-- and nearly anybody-- can make a lamp is artist Richard L. Baer's theory..." It's true. Here we see some favorites by (counter clockwise from Eleven O'Clock) Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, the CEO of the Brach's Candy Co., Mister B Natural, Rufus T. Firefly... From the October issue of Everywoman's magazine.

I swear I glimpsed this wallpaper, or something similar, in my bedroom once while prepping the walls for a fresh coat of paint. Except mine also had giant pink (formerly red?) bows. Scary.