With all the interest in the Zodiac/Horoscope Rug on the cover of the booklet , I converted the cross stitch pattern into a crochet pattern, here is where you can find it newagaincrochet.etsy.com/listing/1780464924/1951-horoscope-zodiac-sign-vintage
When I was about 8 or 9 years old in this early '70s I sent a Dollar and a self-stamped envelope to get rich quick ad. What I received was a single sheet of paper that instructed me to take an ad out in the newspaper and publish the exact same ad that I had seen encouraging people to send $1 and a self-addressed stamped envelope. I was so angry I never forgot it.
Corinna, As a young woman living with girls in an apartment in Chicago when this horrible crime took place with Speck, we were all scared to death. It was in the news constantly as you can imagine. Something I was sure would affect my life forever. He was eventually imprisoned at Statesville in Joliet IL, not far from where I eventually ended up living with my family. One day in Dec. 1991 I was in the er with a friend who had broken her arm. Suddenly we were all moved to a secured area and police and security were all over while they brought in a victim of a heart attack from Statesville. Non other than Richard Speck. He died and I remember all the nurses standing in the halls,crying for their lost comrades because of this monster. No tears were shed for him.
@@gini2638 Did your great aunt say whether she noticed any of the long-recognized early violent behavior, like hurting animals, we hear about in mass murderers and serial killers?
I just heard about that in the past year; those poor girls 😔 I can't remember if he was the one who was the psychopath? Can't remember; awful though. I remember there was a guy who was really nasty, who would come in the ER for being drunk. We used to have to put a hood over his head cause he'd spit at everyone. He messed up a nurse's shoulder once. Was an awful, horrible guy who beat his wife (too bad you can't step in and stop this stuff ☹️ The abusee has to be the one who makes it stop; what an awful system 😭) One day he came in and died. Drank himself to death. That was one person I wasn't sad one but that he was gone. I was so happy his wife was free❤️🩹 I didn't even work in the ER; that news just spreads🤷♀️
I well remember when there were no single use plastics. Meats from the butcher wrapped in heavy waxed paper, milk or juice in glass or even heavier waxed paper/cardboard, other things bought in specialty shops wrapped in paper/cardboard and string.. Another popular way to make money included in those Workbaskets was to make items for bazaars and also rug weaving, which got its own full page ad much of the time. Women also had clubs for making things while socializing. My mother was in a rug club, which I have fond memories of ladies rug hooking, crochet, braiding and my mother's specialty - crinkle crocheted rugs.
@@terrillcampbell673 There is a special needle with a kink in it and long enough to hold the bias-cut strips of wool (3/4 - 1" wide). The wool strips are put on the needle folded accordian style and then crocheted with carpet warp. It makes thick, wonderful rugs. After her first rug, she got the hang of making them so the ones sewn in the round or oval would lie flat. It's not what is called a crinkle stitch. And I've heard the method called something else but can't remember at the moment.
Ads from times gone by are a reflection of the times, they are a resource for social history that sometimes get overlooked. It’s fascinating that advertisers targeted women then as they do now.
Oh my goodness - I have an idea: send a copy of the cover, a copy of the ad and money/check to Herrschners (current address) . Tell them you have a vintage pattern you tube channel and want to place an order for the needlecraft catalog - add a smiley face and see what happens. Then let us know. I BET they would respond. 😂
I have several books from the 50's and 60's sent from my aunt in 1966 while in Germany. I shared this the other service wives for our knitting group. We were able to help one another learn new things.
Oh, that needlecrafts catalog you thought was nice was Herrschner's. They are still in business. They are in Plover, Wi. and online. They are very popular.
My mom got workbasket when I was little. She worked in a factory for 22 years and then became a hair dresser until il she was 70. While my dad was in the army in the forties she crocheted and knit baby layette sets to sell to make extra money and continued working at the same time.
I sold greeting cards door to door when I was a kid, in the 1960s, probably about 12 years old. My parents let me. I sold to all the neighbors. I have no idea what I thought I was doing. I made absolutely no money. They paid me in cheap plastic doodads. All I can remember are a set of salt and pepper shakers that my mom actually used for years. What a nice mom.
Lol! You were bartering for plastic ? Did you specify that you only took plastic and they didn't understand what a credit card was, so they gave you doodads?😂
@Padraigp I was a kid. It was a scam. My parents let me fall for it to learn from it, which I did. My neighbors did get the greeting cards. I got paid in "premiums," and after a while, I figured out that the real winner was The Sunshine Greeting Card company, and I stopped being a dumb kid. Then, I started using my real talent, and became the best babysitter on our block.
I sold greeting cards door to door as well. It was a scam. I sold 6 boxes and sent them the money, but they never sent the cards. The old lady down the street saw me riding my bike and started yelling at me that I stole her money. I went home and got the sample box and took it to her. She still was berating me as she took the cards. I then repayed the other people out of my allowance. Thank goodness I was such a poor salesman and only sold 6 boxes.
@stanleyhape8427 I was lucky that the company I sold for wasn't an outright scam. My parents kept a pretty good eye on what we were doing. My little sister fell for a back-of-a- magazine scam once. They tricked her into signing a contract where she owed them money no matter what she did. She finally confessed to my parents, who wrote to the scammers and told them they had entered into an illegal contract with a minor child. They backed off.
@stanleyhape8427 oh wow that is not cool!! I would never buy a box of cards that was on spec. Anything on spec actually. I know people who bought houses on spec and lost hundreds of thousands on it! You learned a very good lesson. If you had invested your capital in your own bussiness not someone else you would have had control. But also the risk of leftover stock. That is the rub unfortunately.
My mom used to get these magazines back in the 70s. I have been trying to remember the name of them for a couple of years with no luck. Now I remember! Thank you!!!
At about 2:00 , fixing zippers might have been a good way to make money = the zippers back then were metal, and were sewn in the garment really well. Nylon stockings ….. remember them very well. Every woman going out wore stockings to be properly dressed. High school girls mostly wore bobby socks. The stockings were usually held up by the fasteners on the garter belt or girdle. The garter belt was worn under the underwear, an easier way to wear it when needing to use the rest room.
@amethystanne4586 yes my mother wore a garter belt when I was young. It looked very uncomfortable. By the time I was a teenager in the 60s we actually had the pull on nylons. Always fun trying to shimmy into them.😂
@amethystanne4586 I heard the way they had to wear pads were even more of a nightmare than garters. I've seen old advertisements of it and it looks awful. Then again, the ones nowadays aren't any better. All are filled with toxic chemicals and adhesive that will give you a free waxing. I've had to wear hose before and absolutely hated it. Nearly lost my mind when I ripped a hole in them! I'm glad we don't have to wear hose anymore all day every day. Private school made it a requirement. I love my comfortable jeans. If only they'd make deep pockets for most of them. I got lucky with a pair of jeans I got cheap at Walmart. Deep enough pockets to fit your wallet and phone. All of this predated the Tupperware parties. I remember my biological mother throwing Pampered Chef parties. A total MLM pyramid scheme. Now they are unpopular, and glassware is taking over since the whole microplastic scare. 99% of what my stepmother has is glassware to store our leftovers in. It's worth the extra money. Less worries about the plastic melting in the dishwasher or microwave. Don't ever believe that the plastic ones are microwave/dishwasher safe, even if it says so! We love our Corelle (lead-free, of course).
@@notavailabe oh dear, about the feminine hygiene products of the 50’s/60’s/70’s/80’s……You brought back memories I thought I had gotten amnesia about. I think I have a story you might find interesting. My parents passed in 2017. My siblings and I were going through everything to eventually sell their house. While in the attic, my sister and I found a closed-up 1970’s era paper grocery bag. We opened it, and found an unopened 48-count(?) box of Confidets. I can’t remember if there was a spare belt in the bag. Mom was 88 when she passed. She wasn’t taking any chances that her monthly would show up again after menopause (which happened in 1978).
@@amethystanne4586 Early '80s baby here! As a little girl, nylons (we called them "panty hose" or "tights" here in Chicago) were expected with a dress or skirt. We also wore them if we were wearing "dress shoes" because those feet are still exposed skin -- gasp!! (or at least, I wore tights under the pants because my skinny kid legs wouldn't hold up knee-high hose). I also remember the cheap nylons that came in a plastic bubble (like how the 25c toy machines had); my Gma had a bunch of those. By the time I hit high school, nylons/tights were on the way out. My high school was private, so we had "no shorter than knee-length" skirts. We could wear tights if we wanted, but most people wore socks with bare legs. And during my time there, they eventually allowed us to wear plain sneakers rather than dress shoes. LOL For the teens off-time chosen trends, nylons and tights were an optional accessory clothing item -- to be worn with dresses, skirts, or even shorts. They could be cozy and dark (nice with a plaid skirt), lacy, or fishnets (kinda edgy/grunge), or colorful. Me, I've never liked them. They pressed my toes together, made using the bathroom cumbersome, and made me feel squeezed like a human sausage. In my early adult years, I only used them in the bedroom. One day, my partner (of 20y+ now) found a box of hosiery from a business that his aunt owned very long ago. I tried on a few of the racy nylons and they were somehow both brittle and sticky. They came off in pieces and I had to shower to get the residue off. Materials often degrade over time, and it can be pretty unpleasant and gross. Sticky fishnets is no sexy. 🤣
Well let me tell you that in 1978 I worked at temp agencies for receptionist/ secretarial stuff and I sometimes got $5.00 an hour which was considered good. Im talking about Dallas, Texas so maybe different parts of the country paid more. Also, I worked for Aetna insurance as a file clerk in 1974 and I think the wage was $2. 25 an hour. I later went to school for nursing and with a Bachelor's degree I started out at$12.00 an hour at a major hospital in Dallas in 1993. Crazy isn't it?
@@cindyjones3216 heck I worked in 1999 for about 2.50 and hour, plus dorm style board. At college I got a little under 5$ an hour. Federal minimum wage at the time. I had 3 jobs in the 90's that were about 2$ an hour.
Good Housekeeping is an old established monthly that's still going in Britain. Originally aimed at middle-class ladies who likely had a regular cleaning lady, if not full-time staff. They have a GH Institute where home products are tested and compared. That gave the journal a good reputation and companies still like to advertise having their stamp of approval.
Wow! Thank you . The last page you were reading, I spotted on the adjacent page a pattern for animal pillows. My mother made my sister and me similar pillows. Wow! What a treat! I just have to say. I have been watching your channel since the making the the dress from the 1930s. You have one into your own since the beginning. So proud of you, and I always look forward to your posts. ❤😊
I have a lot of these old Workbasket magazines. Some as old as yours, some as old as the 70s. Always liked vintage knitting, crocheting, and needlework magazines. I forget sometimes how people nowadays, if younger than, say, 40, have no real concept of daily life before the Internet and personal smartphones, i.e., the computer in your pocket. You are educating yourself here and your viewers and that's great. I'm old so I know a lot of useless (nowadays) stuff and it tickles me to see much younger people finding hidden meaning in old publications like this. By the way, the clear plastic you are reading about, toward the end, is a resin material that is commercially known as Lucite. A liquid epoxy that cures hard at room temp. It was big with hobbyists. In the 1950s, inexpensive jewelry with tiny dried flowers, seashells, mica sparkle fragments, coins, etc., was very popular to buy or make at home with little molds you pour a prepared liquid into. Over time, with exposure to heat and UV, it can yellow and even crack, but if well stored it can long retain its clear appearance. You set tiny objects in it while it is still soft. Your goal is to place the item without generating air bubbles or being captured off-center. I imagine it takes real practice, tweezers, and non-shaky hands to do it right. The Richard Carl Speck thing is quite interesting. As a researcher I frequently peruse old magazines, newspapers, city directories and the like and pick up all sorts of historical breadcrumbs. You WILL find them! Just as you did---IF you're alert, sufficiently educated to your subject to recognize clues, and willing to just keep reading and reading. Keep looking for goodies. It's a very rewarding thing for us history nerd-girl types (of any age or gender, really).
Fun to hear you read that interesting little book. I remember reading in the newspaper about those nursing students when that case happened. It was horrifying. I was 8 years old.
I went to college the year after the serial killer Ted Bundy killed the young college women in their, I think, sorority housing. He'd been caught by then but there was a feeling of fear and unease at how easy it had all been. Back then in the small towns I grew up in people didn't even think to lock their doors at night. I'm not sure there even were locks on the window of my childhood home. Probably, but no air conditioning, so windows were left open at night.😢
We have come pretty far since then, except for the plastic part😂 That was fun! I did recognize that one company called Herrschners. It's still around and my great grandma used to order notions and thread for tatting from them when I was very young (in the 60's). I remember vividly her opening her order from them and getting to work on her project. They are still around and actually have an online store. Very nostalgic products.
I love the fact that in the 1940’s they even had naughty girls party! I bet those church ladies had some raised eyebrows when invited to one of them! Love this video now waiting for a crochet video, lol.
Are you referring to the lingerie parties? Selling lingerie like that wasn't considered naughty. No men were allowed and it was like tupperware and many other home hosted selling parties (a thing at the time) with the hostess receiving something that they wanted from the items they were hosting at their houses.
If it was anything other than regular, everyday utilitarian underwear it would also have been offered to married women only, but no one else. Single women and girls were never encouraged to have any expression of sexual interests...
“Single use plastics” was not a term back then or even an idea. Radio promotion appealed to thrifty post-war users by saying it was re-usable unlike paper, waxed paper or cellophane. And we did re-use it. Laundry was much more laborious back then; so, the ability to just wipe down an apron or tablecloth was appealing. The ads, however, are a come-on. I answered one myself for sewing baby shoes. The implication was that they would buy them if they were good enough. Well, naturally, they were. So now I could buy more pieces plus display equipment, etc and go out and find my own markets. If I had a car and could get out that much, I could have found a job on my own. “Up to” then and now means you will make no where near that much money. “Up to” means “less than”.
When my mamaw was a young child, there was a lot of advertising for plastic bottles that could be tossed after one use to reduce washing. They were pushing these HARD. My great grandmother was the type that would probably have got them and reused them. We are an Appalachian family and have been for generations so not a very wealthy area. But they defiantly pushed for single use plastics
@@Marynicole830 . Advertising can be different for different areas but we may be talking about different times. I was born in 1939. When was your grandma born?
The catalog ad you were excited about is from the Hershners company. They still exist! They are in Wisconsin and sell all kinds of crafts. Including yarn!!
My Great Grandfather died when my Grandmother was 4 years old. He left a wife and 8 children. The Eldest daughter and Great Grandmother became Practical Nurses. It was explained to me that a Practical Nurse would basically mean acting as a replacement homemaker. In the day a woman would have a child and a practical nurse would come to the home, take care of the wife and the baby, clean the house, make meals, take care of the children, laundry, and make lunches for the husband. At that time the mothers would not get out of bed for two weeks. The baby would be brought to the mother for feeding. It was later recognized that having the mother in bed two weeks led to blood clots forming and mothers were dying. That is why they get mothers up as soon as possible after birth now. Also the eldest daughter became married, had two children and her husband was in debt, left her and disappeared. My grandmother took care of her children while Great Grandma and the eldest daughter continued being practical nurses.
I have a few and cannot get rid of them. Three of my favorite crafts came from them and I enjoy looking for inspiration. You will now find me with a couple of them looking for some cute crochet patterns. Thanks from me and what a fun way to start for you!!
"There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?" - Mr McGuire in The Graduate I always think about that line and how, 'the future is plastics!'. Coincidentally, he was speaking to the lead character named Benjamin. Interesting reading, Corrina. Thank you!
I always remember that line and still think, yeah, the future is still plastics... how are we going to clean all that gunk up? They recently found plastic in the Mariana trench! I'd be so much more impressed if everyone had just stuck to crochet.
The word "outfit" in these ads meant a kit of samples, not a dress to wear. So the outfit was supposedly free, but I'm pretty sure there was a deposit or something. And I agree with crownznest that the parties offered samples of outerwear, lingerie and stockings but it was all sedate and classy. Well, as classy as buying stuff from a friend can be🙂
In 1951 my Mom met my Dad when she went to work as a seamstress in his families business. I've always been curious about life back then. I also have some vintage crochet patterns.
Nylon is a type of plastic which can be used for synthetic fabrics. Silk stockings were never called "Nylons". 😉 Acrylic is another form of plastic (which can be used as a fiber, mostly to imitate wool).
My sister and I looked up addresses on google maps and some were at actual homes still there! We had a bit of fun doing that and reading along with you. We had to get close to the TV!😂😂
Even though I wasn't alive yet, it was good to take a quick step into the past with you. It's weird that you could become a nurse through a correspondence school, but I guess it's no different than learning online now, right? Hugs!
You can still do nursing through correspondence courses and yes most of those are online now. Won't make you a registered nurse untill you have done some internship though its. Just for the study side of it .. they also do a study course in class before they can qualify to become interns or go further with study.
My first thought was where are the zip codes for those addresses? That is until I found that the modern version of the US zip code didn't exist until 1963 and this book is obviously before that. Apparently those two digit numbers before the city/state part is the early zip code. I didn't know that!
"Fashion Frocks"! I remember hearing of them. I can't picture a catalogue or anything in my head, but I wouldn't be surprised if my mother had been a part of that work at home company. She also did "Beeline" and "QueensWay of Fashion".
Fun video! Noticed that the word draperies was read as dispensaries - plastic draperies were a thing back then, and just as cheap looking as they sound, I understand.
I was born in 1956, and nothing in these ads is particularly bad. Women, especially divorced or widowed mothers, needed a way to earn money while raising their children. If a woman worked outside of the home, finding reliable childcare was difficult. A practical nurse was basically someone working in a nursing home or providing home healthcare. The Chicago School of Nursing had nothing to do with a murder of those girls other than that the girls were student there. I attended a lingerie party in the 70s. It was nothing like a sex toy party, but was more like a Tupperware party, but they sold nighties.
Wouldn't the nylons have been nylon at the time? Given that one of the selling points of them over silk was the durability, I can't imagine that acrylic ones would get past marketing back then.
Yes, nylon was actually a synthetic replacement for silk. Acetate wouldn't have been used. Silk, the old stocking standby for decades, was badly needed during WWII for parachutes, and sericulture (silk making) took a lot of time to generate the fiber in any large quantity (involving live mulberry trees, raising worms on them to spin cocoons, and boiling the completed cocoons in vats which of course killed the poor worms), so nylon was developed and eventually it became common for women's stockings. By 1951 city women were already wearing nylons, but in rural areas women were probably still wearing cotton hose or ankle socks, so nylon hosiery parties would have been a fun way to introduce a "sophisticated" idea to your neighbors for an affordable price. Same thing for the lingerie parties. Not intended for men at all---but for women to sigh over, and buy from, because such nicer items couldn't be had locally. The Sears catalog wouldn't have had "sexy pretties" in those days.
In the 60's and 70's newspapers had help wanted ads listed by men and women. In the women's employment section it was common for office work to specific 'Most have front office appearance and wardrobe' and for food service in those days it was common for restaurants to provide uniforms and they would often say 'Wanted experienced waitress - must be a size 4'. When 'go-go dancers' were becoming common back then they would generally say things like 'Must be comfortable dancing in a bikini'. We've come long way, baby. If you're of a certain age, you'll get that tag line
You are right, that's good wages for 1951! Pennsylvania's minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour! Last increase, July of 2009! For 15 years, it hasn't gone up. Unbelievable. Where was that $5 dollar an hour jib located? 😅 Thanks for sharing the info from days gone by. I always enjoy it!
I inherited some from my Aunt. Loved reading them. Especially the Aunt Ellen club suggestions. You have to remember prices were different then. My parents paid $27.00 a month for a 4 room apartment. Not to mention want ads were divided into male only and female jobs. Female jobs paid much less.
Back in '51 coins were sealed in the envelope if you were buying for less than a dollar. Mail was handled by hand and, I suppose, people were more honest. They were trying to get it stopped and I've often figured that's why prices went up or offers for sale of really cheap things (like an instruction pamphlet) simply disappeared.
My mother got these for years, and we still have quite a few. They always had iron-on embroidery transfers, which we used! There were always some crafts appropriate for church bazaars and other fundraisers. The advertising kept the price low, but some look like scams.
Think the 'Rap-a-round' was a skirt. Most patterns had a layout where you cut in one circular piece. A wrap skirt would have been practical for expanding waistlines in early pregnancies. I thought the ads for photo painting was interesting as we had a neighbor who did this during the 60's to make additional money. You had to have art talent to do this.
I really like the vintage Workbasket booklets. I have a large collection of them in the 1950s, and one thing I noticed is the patterns are overwhelming crochet, which I am only a knitter. Maybe you can reproduce some of these crochet patterns?
Both my parents lived through the Great Depression, and one thing they did not do was to throw anything away that could be used a second time, including so-called single-use plastics. They taught us how to clean things and use them again, even the thin, plastic tablecloths and Solo cups. My dad would buy personal size chicken pot pies, and when any of us ate one, we would wash out the tin so he could use it for an ashtray. And heaven forbid we should throw away an empty glass jar without scraping it clean with a spoon! That was grounds for punishment. Aluminum foil, bread bags and ties, vegetable oil, nothing went to waste if we could help it.
@@justvintagecrochet wow, thank you so much! 👍🤩. I would even be thrilled to have the cross stitch pattern as I enjoy working cross stitch as well. You are my hero 😍
Good house keeping is a UK magazine, and it's still going Omg all thoes party style MLM opportunities. Lol Ouch that was a not so good add at the end, I may have applyed for that one if I was around then, shocking xx
I wonder if the Speck murders inspired one of the flashback stories for American Horror Story's first season ("Murder House"). I'm not particularly a fan of horror (esp gratuitous/gory violence) but what I love is the gorgeous house interior and peeking into the decades of its "life." I wish I could do that with every building (but a normal history, not scary LOL).
Most of those ads were scams. On page 58 though you didn't say the name of the company with the craft catalog which was Herrschner's - still in existence!
When I was a child in the late 60's my mother used to host those beeline parties. My sisters and I would model the clothes. The lingerie was quite elegant not trashy lol also a lot of regular clothes
Sheer stockings weren’t called “nylons” until they started making them from (drum roll, please) nylon! When they were made from silk, they were simply known as “silk stockings”.
Scams have been around as long as humans I think. I've been through newspapers from the early 1900s and have seen many a sketchy ad -- particularly for various cures and tonics!
For money comparison... in 1970 my parents rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $75 per month. Wanted to point out that many married women were looking for a "side hustle" because they often had no money of their own and their husband would not allow them to work outside of the home and would not give them any money for themselves. In about 1975 a friend of my mother's actually took her husband to court to force him to give money to her for the household (food, mortgage, clothes for their SIX children, etc) and a small allowance for herself. The family court actually placed the family (mom and kids) in a protected status and the husband had to turn his entire pay over to a person who would then distribute the funds as appropriate. The couple in question would never divorce because they were Roman Catholic. Though they both had extramarital relationships for years. 🤷🤷🤷
Wow! Scams! Trust me we never, ever even looked at those back in the day. BTW $5 an hour back in 1951, adjusted for inflation, would be about $60 an hour today.
These were all scams. They want money before they send anything even though they don’t . I fell into the one about the greeting cards, Absolute junk. There was one about addressing envelopes, too. I think there was a section called “Making Cents”. On how to make little items to sell at bazaars or from home. A friend of my mother got these Workbaskets. I would just pour over them. They had a section for each home art, as they called it. For example, knitting, crochet, tatting, embroidery, cooking, etc. lots of fun, I wish there was something similar now, now magazines are so expensive, like buying a book. If you run across some old Women’s Day or Family Circle, those are fun, too. They came out every three weeks or so.
At least the sad ending was something that happened 15 years after the magazine was published, so anyone who answered that 1951 advert wouldn't have been a student. Such a pity the school's memory is tarnished by the horrors of one madman
@erikagholston6610 When we lived in Kalamazoo, Mi., my son was a baby food tester for Gerber. He liked everything! I noticed difference between different samples, but he gobbled up everything. He was especially fond of vegetables.
With all the interest in the Zodiac/Horoscope Rug on the cover of the booklet , I converted the cross stitch pattern into a crochet pattern, here is where you can find it
newagaincrochet.etsy.com/listing/1780464924/1951-horoscope-zodiac-sign-vintage
When I was about 8 or 9 years old in this early '70s I sent a Dollar and a self-stamped envelope to get rich quick ad. What I received was a single sheet of paper that instructed me to take an ad out in the newspaper and publish the exact same ad that I had seen encouraging people to send $1 and a self-addressed stamped envelope. I was so angry I never forgot it.
@@anthonywroblewski1802 😂The original pyramid scheme. 🤣
🤣🤣🤣probably the best most honest and actual 1:06 advice you ever got!
Corinna, As a young woman living with girls in an apartment in Chicago when this horrible crime took place with Speck, we were all scared to death. It was in the news constantly as you can imagine. Something I was sure would affect my life forever. He was eventually imprisoned at Statesville in Joliet IL, not far from
where I eventually ended up living with my family. One day in Dec. 1991 I was in the er with a friend who had broken her arm. Suddenly we were all moved to a secured area and police and security were all over while they brought in a victim of a heart attack from Statesville. Non other than Richard Speck. He died and I remember all the nurses standing in the halls,crying for their lost comrades because of this monster. No tears were shed for him.
He was a monster.
I remember my great aunt telling that she had babysat Richard Speck. She was absolutely horrified of what he turned into.
@@gini2638 Did your great aunt say whether she noticed any of the long-recognized early violent behavior, like hurting animals, we hear about in mass murderers and serial killers?
I just heard about that in the past year; those poor girls 😔 I can't remember if he was the one who was the psychopath? Can't remember; awful though. I remember there was a guy who was really nasty, who would come in the ER for being drunk. We used to have to put a hood over his head cause he'd spit at everyone. He messed up a nurse's shoulder once. Was an awful, horrible guy who beat his wife (too bad you can't step in and stop this stuff ☹️ The abusee has to be the one who makes it stop; what an awful system 😭)
One day he came in and died. Drank himself to death. That was one person I wasn't sad one but that he was gone. I was so happy his wife was free❤️🩹 I didn't even work in the ER; that news just spreads🤷♀️
@@haplessasshole9615 she didn’t say, he was pretty young when she watched him. Sorry, I can’t ask her now, she passed away a few years ago.
I well remember when there were no single use plastics. Meats from the butcher wrapped in heavy waxed paper, milk or juice in glass or even heavier waxed paper/cardboard, other things bought in specialty shops wrapped in paper/cardboard and string.. Another popular way to make money included in those Workbaskets was to make items for bazaars and also rug weaving, which got its own full page ad much of the time. Women also had clubs for making things while socializing. My mother was in a rug club, which I have fond memories of ladies rug hooking, crochet, braiding and my mother's specialty - crinkle crocheted rugs.
@crowznest438 what is Crinkle Crochet?
@@terrillcampbell673 There is a special needle with a kink in it and long enough to hold the bias-cut strips of wool (3/4 - 1" wide). The wool strips are put on the needle folded accordian style and then crocheted with carpet warp. It makes thick, wonderful rugs. After her first rug, she got the hang of making them so the ones sewn in the round or oval would lie flat. It's not what is called a crinkle stitch. And I've heard the method called something else but can't remember at the moment.
I need more info -- this sounds fascinating!
@@pcoristi Found it! Look up Pleache't Rug Technique.
@crowznest438 where can I find the needle and tutorials or directions
Ads from times gone by are a reflection of the times, they are a resource for social history that sometimes get overlooked. It’s fascinating that advertisers targeted women then as they do now.
you speak so clearly i havent heard someone speak so clear in so long
Oh my goodness - I have an idea: send a copy of the cover, a copy of the ad and money/check to Herrschners (current address) . Tell them you have a vintage pattern you tube channel and want to place an order for the needlecraft catalog - add a smiley face and see what happens. Then let us know. I BET they would respond. 😂
My grandmother used to get these. They were the first books I learned to read patterns from. I have her’s put up. WOW
I have a whole bunch of my great grandmother’s and I love reading the ads
I have several books from the 50's and 60's sent from my aunt in 1966 while in Germany. I shared this the other service wives for our knitting group. We were able to help one another learn new things.
All I can think of is that line from The Graduate that I keep seeing- “I have one words for you- plastics.”
I kept thinking of the same thing, and about Dustin Hoffman's dazed nod in response.
Picture this: It's 1988 in a small farming town in the midwest, I just started my first adult job at $3.35 per hour. lol Loved that job.
@11:25 The Frederick Herrschner Co offering the needlecraft catalog is the modern day Herrschners. So yes, it is (kind of) still available.
Oh, that needlecrafts catalog you thought was nice was Herrschner's. They are still in business. They are in Plover, Wi. and online. They are very popular.
My mom got workbasket when I was little. She worked in a factory for 22 years and then became a hair dresser until il she was 70. While my dad was in the army in the forties she crocheted and knit baby layette sets to sell to make extra money and continued working at the same time.
Free outfit didn’t mean clothing lol. It meant they would send you what you needed to get the business going. 6:58
I sold greeting cards door to door when I was a kid, in the 1960s, probably about 12 years old. My parents let me. I sold to all the neighbors. I have no idea what I thought I was doing. I made absolutely no money. They paid me in cheap plastic doodads. All I can remember are a set of salt and pepper shakers that my mom actually used for years. What a nice mom.
Lol! You were bartering for plastic ? Did you specify that you only took plastic and they didn't understand what a credit card was, so they gave you doodads?😂
@Padraigp I was a kid. It was a scam. My parents let me fall for it to learn from it, which I did. My neighbors did get the greeting cards. I got paid in "premiums," and after a while, I figured out that the real winner was The Sunshine Greeting Card company, and I stopped being a dumb kid. Then, I started using my real talent, and became the best babysitter on our block.
I sold greeting cards door to door as well.
It was a scam.
I sold 6 boxes and sent them the money, but they never sent the cards. The old lady down the street saw me riding my bike and started yelling at me that I stole her money. I went home and got the sample box and took it to her. She still was berating me as she took the cards. I then repayed the other people out of my allowance. Thank goodness I was such a poor salesman and only sold 6 boxes.
@stanleyhape8427 I was lucky that the company I sold for wasn't an outright scam. My parents kept a pretty good eye on what we were doing. My little sister fell for a back-of-a- magazine scam once. They tricked her into signing a contract where she owed them money no matter what she did. She finally confessed to my parents, who wrote to the scammers and told them they had entered into an illegal contract with a minor child. They backed off.
@stanleyhape8427 oh wow that is not cool!! I would never buy a box of cards that was on spec. Anything on spec actually. I know people who bought houses on spec and lost hundreds of thousands on it! You learned a very good lesson. If you had invested your capital in your own bussiness not someone else you would have had control. But also the risk of leftover stock. That is the rub unfortunately.
I have some of these magazines. I was born in 1946. Love looking at them.
My mom used to get these magazines back in the 70s. I have been trying to remember the name of them for a couple of years with no luck. Now I remember! Thank you!!!
At about 2:00 , fixing zippers might have been a good way to make money = the zippers back then were metal, and were sewn in the garment really well.
Nylon stockings ….. remember them very well. Every woman going out wore stockings to be properly dressed. High school girls mostly wore bobby socks. The stockings were usually held up by the fasteners on the garter belt or girdle. The garter belt was worn under the underwear, an easier way to wear it when needing to use the rest room.
@@amethystanne4586 also, if you had fancy nylon panties a garter belt worn over them woukd soon be around your ankles
@amethystanne4586 yes my mother wore a garter belt when I was young. It looked very uncomfortable. By the time I was a teenager in the 60s we actually had the pull on nylons. Always fun trying to shimmy into them.😂
@amethystanne4586 I heard the way they had to wear pads were even more of a nightmare than garters. I've seen old advertisements of it and it looks awful. Then again, the ones nowadays aren't any better. All are filled with toxic chemicals and adhesive that will give you a free waxing.
I've had to wear hose before and absolutely hated it. Nearly lost my mind when I ripped a hole in them! I'm glad we don't have to wear hose anymore all day every day. Private school made it a requirement. I love my comfortable jeans. If only they'd make deep pockets for most of them. I got lucky with a pair of jeans I got cheap at Walmart. Deep enough pockets to fit your wallet and phone.
All of this predated the Tupperware parties. I remember my biological mother throwing Pampered Chef parties. A total MLM pyramid scheme. Now they are unpopular, and glassware is taking over since the whole microplastic scare. 99% of what my stepmother has is glassware to store our leftovers in. It's worth the extra money. Less worries about the plastic melting in the dishwasher or microwave. Don't ever believe that the plastic ones are microwave/dishwasher safe, even if it says so! We love our Corelle (lead-free, of course).
@@notavailabe oh dear, about the feminine hygiene products of the 50’s/60’s/70’s/80’s……You brought back memories I thought I had gotten amnesia about.
I think I have a story you might find interesting. My parents passed in 2017. My siblings and I were going through everything to eventually sell their house. While in the attic, my sister and I found a closed-up 1970’s era paper grocery bag. We opened it, and found an unopened 48-count(?) box of Confidets. I can’t remember if there was a spare belt in the bag. Mom was 88 when she passed. She wasn’t taking any chances that her monthly would show up again after menopause (which happened in 1978).
@@amethystanne4586 Early '80s baby here! As a little girl, nylons (we called them "panty hose" or "tights" here in Chicago) were expected with a dress or skirt. We also wore them if we were wearing "dress shoes" because those feet are still exposed skin -- gasp!! (or at least, I wore tights under the pants because my skinny kid legs wouldn't hold up knee-high hose). I also remember the cheap nylons that came in a plastic bubble (like how the 25c toy machines had); my Gma had a bunch of those.
By the time I hit high school, nylons/tights were on the way out. My high school was private, so we had "no shorter than knee-length" skirts. We could wear tights if we wanted, but most people wore socks with bare legs. And during my time there, they eventually allowed us to wear plain sneakers rather than dress shoes. LOL
For the teens off-time chosen trends, nylons and tights were an optional accessory clothing item -- to be worn with dresses, skirts, or even shorts. They could be cozy and dark (nice with a plaid skirt), lacy, or fishnets (kinda edgy/grunge), or colorful. Me, I've never liked them. They pressed my toes together, made using the bathroom cumbersome, and made me feel squeezed like a human sausage.
In my early adult years, I only used them in the bedroom. One day, my partner (of 20y+ now) found a box of hosiery from a business that his aunt owned very long ago. I tried on a few of the racy nylons and they were somehow both brittle and sticky. They came off in pieces and I had to shower to get the residue off. Materials often degrade over time, and it can be pretty unpleasant and gross. Sticky fishnets is no sexy. 🤣
Well let me tell you that in 1978 I worked at temp agencies for receptionist/ secretarial stuff and I sometimes got $5.00 an hour which was considered good. Im talking about Dallas, Texas so maybe different parts of the country paid more. Also, I worked for Aetna insurance as a file clerk in 1974 and I think the wage was $2. 25 an hour. I later went to school for nursing and with a Bachelor's degree I started out at$12.00 an hour at a major hospital in Dallas in 1993. Crazy isn't it?
@@cindyjones3216 heck I worked in 1999 for about 2.50 and hour, plus dorm style board. At college I got a little under 5$ an hour. Federal minimum wage at the time. I had 3 jobs in the 90's that were about 2$ an hour.
Good Housekeeping is an old established monthly that's still going in Britain. Originally aimed at middle-class ladies who likely had a regular cleaning lady, if not full-time staff. They have a GH Institute where home products are tested and compared. That gave the journal a good reputation and companies still like to advertise having their stamp of approval.
Wow! Thank you . The last page you were reading, I spotted on the adjacent page a pattern for animal pillows. My mother made my sister and me similar pillows. Wow! What a treat! I just have to say. I have been watching your channel since the making the the dress from the 1930s. You have one into your own since the beginning. So proud of you, and I always look forward to your posts. ❤😊
My mum used to subscribe to that for years in the early 60s into the 70s. She was a talented, diverse crafter.
I have a lot of these old Workbasket magazines. Some as old as yours, some as old as the 70s. Always liked vintage knitting, crocheting, and needlework magazines.
I forget sometimes how people nowadays, if younger than, say, 40, have no real concept of daily life before the Internet and personal smartphones, i.e., the computer in your pocket.
You are educating yourself here and your viewers and that's great. I'm old so I know a lot of useless (nowadays) stuff and it tickles me to see much younger people finding hidden meaning in old publications like this.
By the way, the clear plastic you are reading about, toward the end, is a resin material that is commercially known as Lucite. A liquid epoxy that cures hard at room temp. It was big with hobbyists. In the 1950s, inexpensive jewelry with tiny dried flowers, seashells, mica sparkle fragments, coins, etc., was very popular to buy or make at home with little molds you pour a prepared liquid into. Over time, with exposure to heat and UV, it can yellow and even crack, but if well stored it can long retain its clear appearance. You set tiny objects in it while it is still soft. Your goal is to place the item without generating air bubbles or being captured off-center. I imagine it takes real practice, tweezers, and non-shaky hands to do it right.
The Richard Carl Speck thing is quite interesting. As a researcher I frequently peruse old magazines, newspapers, city directories and the like and pick up all sorts of historical breadcrumbs. You WILL find them! Just as you did---IF you're alert, sufficiently educated to your subject to recognize clues, and willing to just keep reading and reading.
Keep looking for goodies. It's a very rewarding thing for us history nerd-girl types (of any age or gender, really).
Fun to hear you read that interesting little book.
I remember reading in the newspaper about those nursing students when that case happened. It was horrifying. I was 8 years old.
I went to college the year after the serial killer Ted Bundy killed the young college women in their, I think, sorority housing. He'd been caught by then but there was a feeling of fear and unease at how easy it had all been. Back then in the small towns I grew up in people didn't even think to lock their doors at night. I'm not sure there even were locks on the window of my childhood home. Probably, but no air conditioning, so windows were left open at night.😢
We have come pretty far since then, except for the plastic part😂 That was fun! I did recognize that one company called Herrschners. It's still around and my great grandma used to order notions and thread for tatting from them when I was very young (in the 60's). I remember vividly her opening her order from them and getting to work on her project. They are still around and actually have an online store. Very nostalgic products.
I just got Herrschners catalog in the mail two days ago. I love looking at it. I have ordered lots of stuff from them.
Even though the end was alarming, that was a soothing video, thank you!
I sure would have snapped up the opportunity to earn a decent wage copying cartoons as a dead-end art student, lol.
My mom used to get this magazine! I wish they still made it! Please, more Work Basket videos!
I found a ton of them on ebay, just ordered some about 2 weeks ago.
I love the fact that in the 1940’s they even had naughty girls party! I bet those church ladies had some raised eyebrows when invited to one of them! Love this video now waiting for a crochet video, lol.
Are you referring to the lingerie parties? Selling lingerie like that wasn't considered naughty. No men were allowed and it was like tupperware and many other home hosted selling parties (a thing at the time) with the hostess receiving something that they wanted from the items they were hosting at their houses.
@@crowznest438 I guarantee you some church ladies thought lingerie itself was naughty.
If it was anything other than regular, everyday utilitarian underwear it would also have been offered to married women only, but no one else. Single women and girls were never encouraged to have any expression of sexual interests...
“Single use plastics” was not a term back then or even an idea. Radio promotion appealed to thrifty post-war users by saying it was re-usable unlike paper, waxed paper or cellophane. And we did re-use it. Laundry was much more laborious back then; so, the ability to just wipe down an apron or tablecloth was appealing. The ads, however, are a come-on. I answered one myself for sewing baby shoes. The implication was that they would buy them if they were good enough. Well, naturally, they were. So now I could buy more pieces plus display equipment, etc and go out and find my own markets. If I had a car and could get out that much, I could have found a job on my own. “Up to” then and now means you will make no where near that much money. “Up to” means “less than”.
When my mamaw was a young child, there was a lot of advertising for plastic bottles that could be tossed after one use to reduce washing. They were pushing these HARD. My great grandmother was the type that would probably have got them and reused them. We are an Appalachian family and have been for generations so not a very wealthy area. But they defiantly pushed for single use plastics
@@Marynicole830 . Advertising can be different for different areas but we may be talking about different times. I was born in 1939. When was your grandma born?
I loved work basket. Just got some off of eBay.
I love the scammy ads, too. MLM huns and influencers back in the day. 😂😂
gotta say old enough to say I remember the want ad's in my hometown paper and the jobs were listed for woman and men separate...unreal
@@JH-th9th me too
not really. there was a greater division od jobs back then. we still dont have many women in trades. or men innursing
The catalog ad you were excited about is from the Hershners company. They still exist! They are in Wisconsin and sell all kinds of crafts. Including yarn!!
My Great Grandfather died when my Grandmother was 4 years old. He left a wife and 8 children. The Eldest daughter and Great Grandmother became Practical Nurses. It was explained to me that a Practical Nurse would basically mean acting as a replacement homemaker. In the day a woman would have a child and a practical nurse would come to the home, take care of the wife and the baby, clean the house, make meals, take care of the children, laundry, and make lunches for the husband. At that time the mothers would not get out of bed for two weeks. The baby would be brought to the mother for feeding. It was later recognized that having the mother in bed two weeks led to blood clots forming and mothers were dying. That is why they get mothers up as soon as possible after birth now. Also the eldest daughter became married, had two children and her husband was in debt, left her and disappeared. My grandmother took care of her children while Great Grandma and the eldest daughter continued being practical nurses.
Lol, I have a stack of these magazines & just went through them again last night. Love them even found a pocket shawl.
I have over 50 of these old "Workbasket" magazines. When I get to be a better crocheter I am going to try out some of the patterns.
I have a few and cannot get rid of them. Three of my favorite crafts came from them and I enjoy looking for inspiration. You will now find me with a couple of them looking for some cute crochet patterns.
Thanks from me and what a fun way to start for you!!
"There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?" - Mr McGuire in The Graduate
I always think about that line and how, 'the future is plastics!'. Coincidentally, he was speaking to the lead character named Benjamin.
Interesting reading, Corrina. Thank you!
I always remember that line and still think, yeah, the future is still plastics... how are we going to clean all that gunk up? They recently found plastic in the Mariana trench! I'd be so much more impressed if everyone had just stuck to crochet.
The word "outfit" in these ads meant a kit of samples, not a dress to wear. So the outfit was supposedly free, but I'm pretty sure there was a deposit or something. And I agree with crownznest that the parties offered samples of outerwear, lingerie and stockings but it was all sedate and classy. Well, as classy as buying stuff from a friend can be🙂
In 1951 my Mom met my Dad when she went to work as a seamstress in his families business. I've always been curious about life back then. I also have some vintage crochet patterns.
I forgot I had several of these from my Grandma's collection...
I have some from 1949 thru 1973...love reading them!!
So glad you made this post!
Love your little history lessons!🌸
Draperies , I remember plastic curtains. We had them in the living room of all places. They were so embarrassing. They made me feel poor.
Nylon is a type of plastic which can be used for synthetic fabrics.
Silk stockings were never called "Nylons". 😉
Acrylic is another form of plastic (which can be used as a fiber, mostly to imitate wool).
Just heard that part while reading these comments. Nylons are made from NYLON - that's why they're called nylons now 😄
Fascinating! Yes Good Housekeeping magazine and website is still going strong in UK. Not sure about rest of Europe.
My sister and I looked up addresses on google maps and some were at actual homes still there! We had a bit of fun doing that and reading along with you. We had to get close to the TV!😂😂
FYI when they say “outfit” they don’t usually mean clothing in that context. “Sales outfit” means “sales kit”.
Even though I wasn't alive yet, it was good to take a quick step into the past with you. It's weird that you could become a nurse through a correspondence school, but I guess it's no different than learning online now, right? Hugs!
You can still do nursing through correspondence courses and yes most of those are online now. Won't make you a registered nurse untill you have done some internship though its. Just for the study side of it .. they also do a study course in class before they can qualify to become interns or go further with study.
My first thought was where are the zip codes for those addresses? That is until I found that the modern version of the US zip code didn't exist until 1963 and this book is obviously before that. Apparently those two digit numbers before the city/state part is the early zip code. I didn't know that!
I used to get The Workbasket magazine! The" want ads" were always quite interesting.
"Fashion Frocks"! I remember hearing of them. I can't picture a catalogue or anything in my head, but I wouldn't be surprised if my mother had been a part of that work at home company. She also did "Beeline" and "QueensWay of Fashion".
@@lblack1961 Queensway to Fashion!!! Yes, I remember that!
I have many Workbasket magazines from my Nana. I still enjoy looking through them, it's very nostalgic. 💜
Fun video!
Noticed that the word draperies was read as dispensaries - plastic draperies were a thing back then, and just as cheap looking as they sound, I understand.
I can’t even tell you how many “gal Friday “ adds I answered. 😊thx for sharing ❤
I was born in 1956, and nothing in these ads is particularly bad. Women, especially divorced or widowed mothers, needed a way to earn money while raising their children. If a woman worked outside of the home, finding reliable childcare was difficult. A practical nurse was basically someone working in a nursing home or providing home healthcare. The Chicago School of Nursing had nothing to do with a murder of those girls other than that the girls were student there. I attended a lingerie party in the 70s. It was nothing like a sex toy party, but was more like a Tupperware party, but they sold nighties.
It would be fun to go to those addresses and see if those businesses are still in existence today or what is there now.
My sister and I used google maps to see! Most were buildings but we found houses still there! We had fun listening and doing that too!!!!!
Herrschners catalogues still exist. You can also shop online. They moved their business to Stevens Point, WI in the 70s.
I used to get this magazine in the 80s
Genuine plastic - I remember a post order catalogue in the sixties who sold " real imitation fur coats" at reasonable prices - for a fur coat that is.
Mom had an imitation chinchilla coat which was still in great condition 50 years later when I gave it to someone into vintage clothing.
Yes, i remember Hills department store advertised "genuine imitation fur coats." My mom and I laughed about those ads for years.😊
Ahh, to bring back genuine pleather burn your thighs car seats😂😂
That was fun!
Wouldn't the nylons have been nylon at the time? Given that one of the selling points of them over silk was the durability, I can't imagine that acrylic ones would get past marketing back then.
Yes, nylon was actually a synthetic replacement for silk. Acetate wouldn't have been used. Silk, the old stocking standby for decades, was badly needed during WWII for parachutes, and sericulture (silk making) took a lot of time to generate the fiber in any large quantity (involving live mulberry trees, raising worms on them to spin cocoons, and boiling the completed cocoons in vats which of course killed the poor worms), so nylon was developed and eventually it became common for women's stockings.
By 1951 city women were already wearing nylons, but in rural areas women were probably still wearing cotton hose or ankle socks, so nylon hosiery parties would have been a fun way to introduce a "sophisticated" idea to your neighbors for an affordable price. Same thing for the lingerie parties. Not intended for men at all---but for women to sigh over, and buy from, because such nicer items couldn't be had locally. The Sears catalog wouldn't have had "sexy pretties" in those days.
lol- i was waiting for the greeting card sales!
For the job offering $23 a week in 1951, it's equivalent to almost $280 in 2024. So that's quite a nice extra income.
Wow that was fascinating thanks for sharing ❤
I was little when Richard Speck murdered those poor women. We were on the lookout for him because we lived in Wisconsin.
At least, one nurse managed to survive hiding under a bed but it must have been hell for her.
In the 60's and 70's newspapers had help wanted ads listed by men and women. In the women's employment section it was common for office work to specific 'Most have front office appearance and wardrobe' and for food service in those days it was common for restaurants to provide uniforms and they would often say 'Wanted experienced waitress - must be a size 4'.
When 'go-go dancers' were becoming common back then they would generally say things like 'Must be comfortable dancing in a bikini'.
We've come long way, baby. If you're of a certain age, you'll get that tag line
You are right, that's good wages for 1951! Pennsylvania's minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour! Last increase, July of 2009! For 15 years, it hasn't gone up. Unbelievable.
Where was that $5 dollar an hour jib located? 😅
Thanks for sharing the info from days gone by. I always enjoy it!
Sounded like several ads could turn into scams, as it is today. Be careful ladies!! Thanks JVC for the interesting info!!
I inherited some from my Aunt. Loved reading them. Especially the Aunt Ellen club suggestions. You have to remember prices were different then. My parents paid $27.00 a month for a 4 room apartment. Not to mention want ads were divided into male only and female jobs. Female jobs paid much less.
Still do
Back in '51 coins were sealed in the envelope if you were buying for less than a dollar. Mail was handled by hand and, I suppose, people were more honest. They were trying to get it stopped and I've often figured that's why prices went up or offers for sale of really cheap things (like an instruction pamphlet) simply disappeared.
My mother got these for years, and we still have quite a few. They always had iron-on embroidery transfers, which we used! There were always some crafts appropriate for church bazaars and other fundraisers. The advertising kept the price low, but some look like scams.
Think the 'Rap-a-round' was a skirt. Most patterns had a layout where you cut in one circular piece. A wrap skirt would have been practical for expanding waistlines in early pregnancies.
I thought the ads for photo painting was interesting as we had a neighbor who did this during the 60's to make additional money. You had to have art talent to do this.
I really like the vintage Workbasket booklets. I have a large collection of them in the 1950s, and one thing I noticed is the patterns are overwhelming crochet, which I am only a knitter. Maybe you can reproduce some of these crochet patterns?
Both my parents lived through the Great Depression, and one thing they did not do was to throw anything away that could be used a second time, including so-called single-use plastics. They taught us how to clean things and use them again, even the thin, plastic tablecloths and Solo cups. My dad would buy personal size chicken pot pies, and when any of us ate one, we would wash out the tin so he could use it for an ashtray. And heaven forbid we should throw away an empty glass jar without scraping it clean with a spoon! That was grounds for punishment. Aluminum foil, bread bags and ties, vegetable oil, nothing went to waste if we could help it.
I recall lots of similar, empty ads from various publications. I tried a few - nothing.
Fun fact... nylons are called nylons because they are made from.... wait for it.... you won't believe your eyes! That's right, it's NYLON!
Miniature trees are still available. Even Amazon carries them. So many of those ads were scams, just like Facebook today. So much fun to look at.
That was fun, thanks!
The one page when you opened the pamphlet. Looks like a horoscope blanket? Is that filet crochet or regular crochet?
Yes please, more info on that blanket!
It is a cross stitch pattern , but I will convert it into a crochet pattern and make it available for you all, I just need a few hours :)
@@justvintagecrochet wow, thank you so much! 👍🤩. I would even be thrilled to have the cross stitch pattern as I enjoy working cross stitch as well.
You are my hero 😍
Here is the pattern :) newagaincrochet.etsy.com/listing/1780464924/1951-horoscope-zodiac-sign-vintage
@@GracefulHaka here is the pattern :) newagaincrochet.etsy.com/listing/1780464924/1951-horoscope-zodiac-sign-vintage
Good house keeping is a UK magazine, and it's still going
Omg all thoes party style MLM opportunities. Lol
Ouch that was a not so good add at the end, I may have applyed for that one if I was around then, shocking xx
I wonder if the Speck murders inspired one of the flashback stories for American Horror Story's first season ("Murder House"). I'm not particularly a fan of horror (esp gratuitous/gory violence) but what I love is the gorgeous house interior and peeking into the decades of its "life." I wish I could do that with every building (but a normal history, not scary LOL).
Stocking s went from silk to rayon during the war years. Later to NYLON , where it says nylon right in the ad.
I have a few issues of this! I never read the ads, that should be interesting.
Most of those ads were scams. On page 58 though you didn't say the name of the company with the craft catalog which was Herrschner's - still in existence!
When I was a child in the late 60's my mother used to host those beeline parties. My sisters and I would model the clothes. The lingerie was quite elegant not trashy lol also a lot of regular clothes
Who thought that MLMs were a thing in 1951!
Sheer stockings weren’t called “nylons” until they started making them from (drum roll, please) nylon! When they were made from silk, they were simply known as “silk stockings”.
Herrschners is now online.
Makes you wonder who wrote the article for the nurses? Was it the mad man? God bless
I was interested in Agents Wanted. hahaha
So, scams have been around in 1951 too!
Scams have been around as long as humans I think. I've been through newspapers from the early 1900s and have seen many a sketchy ad -- particularly for various cures and tonics!
For money comparison... in 1970 my parents rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $75 per month.
Wanted to point out that many married women were looking for a "side hustle" because they often had no money of their own and their husband would not allow them to work outside of the home and would not give them any money for themselves.
In about 1975 a friend of my mother's actually took her husband to court to force him to give money to her for the household (food, mortgage, clothes for their SIX children, etc) and a small allowance for herself. The family court actually placed the family (mom and kids) in a protected status and the husband had to turn his entire pay over to a person who would then distribute the funds as appropriate. The couple in question would never divorce because they were Roman Catholic. Though they both had extramarital relationships for years. 🤷🤷🤷
Wow! Scams! Trust me we never, ever even looked at those back in the day.
BTW $5 an hour back in 1951, adjusted for inflation, would be about $60 an hour today.
Do you have a Facebook page for this channel?
I just looked it up, and apparently $1 in 1951 is equivalent to $12.27 today.
Interesting that I see this on the same day as I heard on the radio that Tupperware was going into bankruptcy. Sell plastics.
These were all scams. They want money before they send anything even though they don’t . I fell into the one about the greeting cards, Absolute junk. There was one about addressing envelopes, too. I think there was a section called “Making Cents”. On how to make little items to sell at bazaars or from home. A friend of my mother got these Workbaskets. I would just pour over them. They had a section for each home art, as they called it. For example, knitting, crochet, tatting, embroidery, cooking, etc. lots of fun, I wish there was something similar now, now magazines are so expensive, like buying a book. If you run across some old Women’s Day or Family Circle, those are fun, too. They came out every three weeks or so.
At least the sad ending was something that happened 15 years after the magazine was published, so anyone who answered that 1951 advert wouldn't have been a student. Such a pity the school's memory is tarnished by the horrors of one madman
Freemont, MI is where Gerber Baby Foods is located.
@erikagholston6610 When we lived in Kalamazoo, Mi., my son was a baby food tester for Gerber. He liked everything! I noticed difference between different samples, but he gobbled up everything. He was especially fond of vegetables.
Wanted you to read the salesmen wanted, male item on next page
I will 100% make a part 2 :)
When that 'thing' happened in ID, was it, a year ago with all those students who shared a house - I thought back to Speck, may he be burning in h---.