What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?

Real-Picture Cheesecake Postcards

2012-02-01T10:32:00.000-05:00

A series of cheesecake postcards from 1950.

I'm a Little Behind in My Writing

2012-01-31T12:49:00.001-05:00

I'm a Little Behind in My Writing, a photo by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? on Flickr.

Apologies for the lack of posts this month. The combination of lots of travel and computer issues has slowed things way down. I will be better this month about getting some new (old) things posted!

Anselmy's Rolladium - Pontiac, Michigan

2012-01-14T05:53:00.001-05:00

Anselmy's Rolladium - Pontiac, Michigan, a photo by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? on Flickr.

Kleenex Sewing Projects - Model No. 5: Romany

2012-01-05T23:57:00.000-05:00

Wow! Stripes!

Connie Francis at Hotel Sahara - Las Vegas, Nevada

2012-01-05T21:06:00.001-05:00

Connie Francis at Hotel Sahara - Las Vegas, Nevada, a photo by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? on Flickr.

Stan Irwin Presents
CONNIE FRANCIS

Kleenex Sewing Projects - Model No. 4: Dolly Varden

2012-01-04T23:34:00.000-05:00

The name Dolly Varden comes from Dickens' story, Baranaby Rudge, and the Dolly Varden pattern is one of tiny bouquets of flowers printed on fabric.

Kleenex Sewing Projects - Model No. 3A & 3B: Harlequin & Frivolous Sal

2012-01-03T21:27:00.000-05:00

Today we have TWO different variations for sewing your own Kleenex Tissue Box-Cover. The original of Harlequin was made of chintz having an evenly spaced diamond pattern and Frivolous Sal is a variation of that Harlequin design. I would love to actually see if anyone did these patterns.

Wish You Were Hear: My Eyes Are Some Better

2012-01-02T23:20:00.000-05:00

Marco Polo Inn - Daytona Beach, Florida

Mailed from Daytona Beach, Florida to Bill Mayhew of Sioux City, Iowa on February 8, 1972:

Bill:
Just a note to remind you to pick up my junk mail - Hope everything at my house is OK. The weather here was in the 70's & 80's but turned colder & rainy this week. My eyes are some better.
Regards, Tom.
Thanks.

Kleenex Sewing Projects - Model No. 2: Pocket Pack

2012-01-02T22:46:00.000-05:00

The habit of using Kleenex Tissues for many purposes has grown greatly in popularity through the years.
For an ideal gift make a Kleenex box cover, then add two or three pocket pack covers that are right in color for suits and dresses. There are many occasions when such a gift would be suitable, and well within the price and time you want to spend.
This installment of the Kleenex Sewing Projects features some patterns for sewing a cover for your pocket pack. Yes. You read that right. This is a cover for a pack of Kleenex your keep in your pocket.

Trailers for Older Movies I've Watched in 2012: Move Over, Darling

2012-01-01T20:56:00.000-05:00

This is the movie that started my 2012.

Released: December 25, 1963

Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Don Knotts, Elliott Reid, Edgar Buchanan, John Astin, Pat Harrington Jr., Chuck Connors

Director: Michael Gordon

The IMDB synopsis:

Five years to the day after his wife Ellen disappeared in the sea after a plane crash, lawyer husband Nicholas has her declared legally dead, remarries and sets off to Monterey with new wife Bianca. The same morning, Ellen arrives home after being rescued by the Navy from a desert island and follows to try and prevent the honeymoon developing further. Nick, still in love with Ellen, is delighted to see her but finds he still can't break the news to Bianca, while Ellen equally hasn't got round to telling the children she is their mother. Could get complicated.

My synopsis:
I generally like Doris Day movies in that non-sexual, matronly, movies-your-grandmother-might-like way and this one is really no exception. The plot gets a little convoluted at time and seems to move forward and backward without taking you along.
The madcap antics border on maudlin sometimes, including several scenes where Doris Day's character, Ellen Wagstaff Arden, has to try to tell her kids, who don't recognize her after five years, that she is their mother. Chuck Connors (and his chin you could cut cheese - actual cheese, not farts) does a fine job as Adam, the man stranded on the desert island with Ellen. James Garner is a good leading man/foil and Polly Bergen is fine, if not a little underutilized. Edgar Buchanan steals the show as Judge Bryson has the funniest scenes of all.
I wouldn't go out of your way to hunt it down, as you're not really missing anything extraordinary, but you could do worse than watching this.

Kleenex Sewing Projects - Model No. 1: Bow Tie

2012-01-01T20:40:00.000-05:00

A few years ago I purchased a weird little series of pamphlets produced in 1950 (although my version is from 1958) called Kleenex Sewing Projects by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin. There are more than a dozen little pamphlets in this series and every single one of them involving knitting a Kleenex Tissue Box-Cover. Each pamphlet is three pages featuring basic stitches, seams and constructions used in all kinds of sewing a jaunty dress for your box of tissues.

This is the outer folder that the pamphlets came in:

I will post a new one every day for the next 12 days. I am going to starting at the beginning, Model number 1: BOW TIE.

Favorites of 2011: The Rajah Lounge at the Kapok Tree Inn - Madeira Beach, Florida

2011-12-30T14:37:00.001-05:00

Favorites of 2011: The Rajah Lounge at the Kapok Tree Inn - Madeira Beach, Florida, a photo by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
The Rajah Lounge is richly furnished in fabrics and metalware imported from India.
5501 Duhme Rd.,
Madeira Beach, Fla.

Best of 2011: Mapparium - Western Hempishere at The Christian SciencePublishing Society - Boston, Massachusetts

2011-12-29T23:25:00.005-05:00

Mapparium - Western Hempishere
The Christian Science Publishing Society Boston, Massachusetts

Best of 2011: Jumping Double

2011-12-29T23:25:00.004-05:00

Photo by Glen Fishback

From the December 1950 issue of Popular Photography magazine.

Best of 2011: Skylark Restaurant - San Jose, California

2011-12-28T20:24:00.002-05:00

521 West Santa Clara Street
San Jose, California
Open 24 Hours a Day.

Best of 2011: The Visitors Reception Area at Hershey ChocolateCorporation - Hershey, Pennsylvania

2011-12-28T20:17:00.002-05:00

"Chocolate Town, U.S.A."
Visitors reception center at Hershey Chocolate Corporation, world's largest chocolate and cocoa plant. Educational displays depict the origin of raw materials and manufacturing processes of chocolate products.

Best of 2011: Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, Illinois

2011-12-28T20:14:00.002-05:00

Throughout the rest of the week I will be posting my favorite images from my flickr photostream. Hopefully uou enjoying these old gems as much as I do.

ARTHRITIS
The crippling and painful effects of arthritis are dramatized in this exhibit from the Illinois Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. Also presented is the current status of man's fight against the disease, as well as many quack remedies confiscated by the government.

Postcards of Lloyd Center - Portland, Oregon (Part Two)

2011-12-26T16:38:00.010-05:00

Another installment of postcards from the Lloyd Center mall in Portland, Oregon. See last week's post for a description. This week will feature more of the shops in the mall and other things around the mall complex.

'Tis the 7up Season

2011-12-23T22:35:00.001-05:00

'Tis the 7up Season, a photo by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
A cardboard insert from 1983 for 12 packs of 7up. Pick up plenty for the Holidays!

1969 Robertson's Department Store Catalog

2011-12-20T23:36:00.000-05:00

For all those last-minute, 1969 shoppers we have a catalog from Robertson's Department Store in South Bend, Indiana

Postcards of Lloyd Center - Portland, Oregon

2011-12-19T16:36:00.000-05:00

or: Motel Monday goes to the mall. I am a little burned out on coming up with them for Motel Monday so I decided that, for the next two weeks, it will be Mall Monday. The focus is going to be on postcards from what once was the World's Largest Shopping Center, the Lloyd Center mall in Portland, Oregon.
Thanks to the Mid-Century Modern League of Portland for this great description:

The Lloyd Center was designed by John Graham Jr. architect of Seattle's famed Space Needle and many other 1960s shopping malls. It opened on August 1, 1960 amid a flurry of 700 homing pigeons and a ribbon cutting by Mayor Terry Shrunk which signaled the crowd of 5,000 to start shopping. It was an open air mall and was heralded as the largest shopping mall in the world.

The Lloyd Center is still kicking. It just looks nothing like this any more. It looks like every other mall in the United States. Move the cursor over the image and you will know what part of the mall you're seeing.

River View Motel - St. Augustine, Florida

2011-12-18T20:49:00.000-05:00

This is a fold-out postcard for the River View Motel in St. Augustine, Florida. Information about the River View is scarce. It does, however, appear that there is a motel located on the same site. I think it's the same motel but it's now called the Edgewater Inn.

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To Catch a Thief

2011-12-16T23:53:00.000-05:00

Tonight I watched the Alfred Hitchcock classic "To Catch a Thief" for the first ever. I cannot believe it took me that long. I have seen almost every other Hitchcock movie and that one always just slipped through cracks. The movie is good, not normal Hitchcock levels of intensity, but the costumes and the actors (Grace Kelly and Cary Grant) are easy on the eyes.

Zip Code Song

2011-12-15T23:33:00.002-05:00

A song about the mail from the end of a 1964 film about the upcoming implementation of the zip code.
Special thanks to my awesome friend Christen for pointing this out.

Roller Rinks of the Past #22: Rollerland - Columbus, Ohio

2011-12-15T22:45:00.002-05:00

Rollerland was once located at the corner of E. Mound & 18th Street in Columbus, Ohio. Its origins and demise are a little but sketchy. I found people reminiscing about it, but no actual information. I am unsure of which corner the rink was situated. There are multiple possibilities. It seems to have held a fond place in people memories, but its history is lost to time.

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