Remember This? Part II: 1965

The March 1965 issue of Woman's Day was likely laying on the coffee table in my childhood home fifty years ago. It's no wonder I love the advertising artwork and feel comfortable with the trends. There was a great article on new hair styles with diagrams for cutting and rollers.

We wore 'falls' to achieve this 'new' hairstyle:

 It reminds me of Meghan in Mad Men. I sure remember wearing a scarf or headband with this look.

 Oh, those rollers! I had slept in large ones and I don't know how I did it.

No one can forget those iconic Breck Girls. 

 

Basements were being tricked out for youth parties. That bright pink wall color is unbelievable.

'Early American decorating' was undergoing a 'tweak'. The painted furniture reminds me of today's trends. 

 There were ads for home sewers.

 And patterns for spring suites in spring colors.

 Embroidered pillow patterns.

I never heard of "Frank Fritters." I guess they didn't catch on in my part of the country.

Nor did Mom ever make me a Jelly Stack.

 I do love 1960s art. These two were pics in a pullout section of recipes.

 I will spare you the Brains Barbizon recipe.

Bermuda Casserole

• 4 Bermuda onions cut in 1/4" slices
• 6 slices day old bread
• 1 cu finely crimbled blue cheese
• 1 cup undiluted evaporated milk or light cream
• 3 beaten eggs
• salt
• hot pepper sauce
• butter
• paprika

Parboil onion slices for 10 minutes. Trim crusts from bread and cut bread into small squares. Butter a shallow 1 1.2 quart baking dish. Put onion in dish and cover with bread squares. Sprinkle with the cheese. Mix milk and eggs and season with salt and hot pepper sauce. Pour over ingredients in baking dish. Dot with butter and sprinkle with paprika. Bake at 375 degrees for about 40 minutes. Serves 6.

And these illustrated a page on Potato dishes from Finland.

Pyttipannu

• Cold cooked potatos
• onions
• fat
• mean leftovers
• sliced cooked sausages
• cucumber pickles
• apples
• grated Cheddar cheese

Chop all the ingredients, but cheese, into 1" cubes. Saute the onion in a small amount of fat until golden. Add the other ingredients and sate until golden. Before serving sprinkle the dish with grated cheese. Serve with fried eggs and ketchup.

 A shared advise column called Neighbors has this lovely tea illustration. Mary Weberg of Paulina, OR suggested keeping a blank recipe file card in one's purse. When you want a friend's recipe you hand it to them.

"When you use a recipe, of course you think of the person who gave it to you and the occasion of the giving."

An article on Georgetown was illustrated in line art. The original pages were pink!

An advertisement for Bell Telephone.

 This is a sweet illustration for a three column article on March gardening.

 Note the pill box hat on the beauty counselor. I never heard of this business.

Yowser! There were theater reviews in this woman's magazine! The Subject was Roses on Broadway starred Irene Dailey, Martin Sheen and Jack Albertson. The review by Hollis Alpert went on a whole page after this page:

Oh, my! I am feeling pretty old. I should follow Margret Merril's advice and damp a cloth in lemon jelvyn freshener and press over my face, lie back and let the lemon tone and refine my skin. Followed up with oil of olay I will have a day-long dewy look.

Family Circle August 1958: When Turquoise Was Vogue

Turquoise was the first decorator color I remember. The August 1958 issue of Family Circle may have influenced Mom's choice in buying a turquoise couch in 1959. 

In this magazine variations of turquoise appears in decor, background color in ads and illustrative art, and in clothing.

 Tommy Sands likes the Halo girl. The backdrop color is, of course, turquoise.

 The Parkay package is a light blue, bordering on turquoise.

 Yep. Turquoise towels.

What great paper plate patterns! Several in turquoise.

This issue had three short stories. Note "the girl" looks awfully womanly.

It is no wonder I associate the color turquoise with my childhood! Mom painted the wainscoting in our house turquoise and the color showed up in lamp trims and doilies (which she pinned to a board, starched, to keep that shape)

In 1959 Mom bought her first new furniture, including the maple hutch I still own, a brown chair, a brown on ivory Colonial print chair, and a turquoise couch. Here is my brother in 1962 sitting on that couch. It had a tough nylon upholstery that never wore out, but was scratchy against the skin. Wasn't he cute?

In 1963 we moved to a 1920s house in Michigan. Mom painted the wall turquoise to match that couch. Here I am Christmas 1963 or 1964 sitting on that couch.

In a few years Mom redecorated. The walls became yellow. It was the beginning of a new era in decorating: Harvest Gold and Avocado. The couch was replaced. She kept the brown chair and in 1972 when I married she gave it to us. That upholstery just never wore out. We discarded it in 1976.

Sunbonnet Sue and Friends: Black and White Illustrations from Music Books

This Sunbonnet Sue is from an Etude Magazine. She has an ingenious ironing board, literally a board suspended by two chairs. The following were illustrations in an early 20th c children's piano book.