Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
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Child Life, December of 1945-- just at the end of WW2 when soldiers were pouring home, thus beginning the Baby Boom many of you may be from. This 70-year-old magazine for kids is full of stories and toys that they'd beg their parents to get. Some, like a calendar bank, were pretty neat. Also, to mail-order cheap things like Crayola crayons, they asked to be paid in stamps. Here too is early "remote control" toys and a walking dog/duck.
The stove is light-up only. For those of you who don't know, AKA 95% of people in my age-group (I'm 19,) old toy stoves were 100% real and able to be used-- thus increasing the number of burns children got. But, hey: They could make real food in them!
It is extremely typical of the 1940s-1950s in how it is geared (Toys for Better Citizens of Tomorrow,) in its style (fair-skinned people,) and what it is teaching (girls in kitchen, boys in construction: AKA Gender Roles.)
Good piece just for that study (As you probably figured out now, I like to analyze things.)
I paid $1, and it's all there-- pretty good for a 70-year-old magazine. :)
Interesting Diagnosis! I agree... old advertisement is interesting, even commercials from the 80s and 90s can seem ridiculous
I stopped watching TV 3 years ago, but I often walk into the living room to see my parent watching it and I see very ridiculous commercials. They're so bad that they're funny.