Seventeen magazine, 1961.

Nowadays any fan can communicate with his idol, through the social networks and personal sites of the artist. In the past, this was very difficult to do and the dream of being close to your favorite artists made teenagers decorate the walls of their rooms with posters and albums. These vintage photographs have an innocent atmosphere at a time when the release of a song or movie from their favorite artist was the event of the year.

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So many posters.

I was looking through some of my vintage Seventeen magazines the other day, and I just started snapping photos of some of the pages: Sorry, but I didn't take the time to write down any dates or anything about them. I just took pictures of cute and colorful outfits that caught my eye. That's Bonnie Lysohir on the right, below: And Colleen Corby on the left in this one: Cute blue calico dress and a fabulous suede lace-up belt: Old fashioned brightness on the beach: More great colors: And a cigar store Indian to pose with! Lively fashions, a little blast from the past.

August 1965. 'Jump suits leap onto the sleep scene -- long on legs, long on ease.'

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Here, for your viewing enjoyment, are pages from the February 1968 issue of 'TEEN magazine. Get ready for lots of smiling birds in bright colors and far-out fashions. Groovy!

April 1973. 'Buckaroos. For sleeping. Or for a little horsing around.'

Picnicware, May 1973.

3 beds including a trundle bed green pink & yellow

I have been working on sorting books over the last week or so - 99% of them were kids books, but a few other random ones were mixed in (no surprise there). One of them is a little booklet called Decorating Your Child's Room from The DoubleDay Home Decorating Program, circa 1971. It's a winner, so I have to share! The scans are a little small, since it is more of a booklet rather than a full sized book, but I hope you can get the general idea... First up we have a little boy's room. I kind of dig the beds and dresser, and even the numbers, but the whales have me totally confused. As far as the colors go, the book says, and I quote: "Make sure to select a color scheme (like avocado green and blue) that is easy for lots of people to live with for a long time to come." Really. Really? Here is a lovely yellow and green girl's room - another stunning use of avocado green! The trundle bed is kinda cool, in fact the author of this book seems to LOVE trundle beds. Wicker furniture is also prominent, for some reason... I find the flooring especially interesting - "Note that the gay design is carried out in the easy-care, easy-to-apply hard surface flooring." It looks cool, but man, if little Suzie falls out of bed, she is going to get one good conk on the noggin! Now here is a color combo that I actually really love, bright red and baby blue. I also really love that wallpaper! But, I think the carpet is a bit much, and the soldier is a tad on the creepy side. The bed unit is pretty awesome, and for some reason the pillow with the red square in the middle leaning against the polka dot wallpaper makes me happy... A girl's room, of course. You can tell by the pink telephone, if the stuffed leopard (?!?) wasn't enough of a clue. Again we have wicker furniture, and crazy wallpaper. And a super fuzzy rug - at least Suzie won't hurt her head falling out of this bed! I think it is interesting that the books on the shelf that don't match the color scheme are wrapped in paper so that they will... I like the idea in theory, but the idea of wrapping all of my books is pretty overwhelming! I think the rule for designing boy's rooms in 1971 was use primary colors, and large letters and numbers. And they weren't allowed to have pillows, apparently. I love the lamps in this room though! Hopefully, this is designed for a teenage girl - I can't see little Suzie enjoying a fake zebra skin tacked on her wall. Well, I guess I can't really see *anyone* enjoying a fake zebra skin tacked to their wall. And what is that head on the shelf under the window? Creepy. I do like the bedspread, and how the shade over the window matches. Here is another room that has more of a teenage feel to it. I love the desk and chairs under the window, and the bedspread is kind of cool. Taking it all the way to the ceiling behind the bed is a bit much. Again we have a wicker chair - was wicker really all the rage in the early 70's? Last but not least, we have this pink monstrosity. The only thing I kind of like about it are the shelves on either side of the vanity. The rest just hurts. And why hang modern art on the walls only to surround it with such an over the top floral pattern? I just don't get it. I wish there was more, but most of the photos in the book are too small to scan in well, or are in black and white. Still, a fun little look into 1971!

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I honestly fell in love with this furniture when I was about twelve years old. I have written before about other furniture - wicker, etc., that I wanted when I was a kid - but THIS is what I REALLY wanted. I think I probably dreamed about it. It was an impossible dream and I knew it. I wrote about it in my journal numerous times- and even mentioned it in my poem "Things I Like". I had never forgotten about it, nor will I ever - but when I came across one of the advertisements in an old Better Homes and Gardens Magazine a few years ago, I just about flipped! (Made by the Stanley Furniture Company. That's Ole - with an accent on the "e".) I was so excited to see it again that I became a woman on a mission: MustHaveEveryPictureOfItThatICanFind! Like a crazy person, I mean it. These that I'm showing you today are all I have found so far. Above, you see it in yellow. I'm still looking for an actual full page advertisement showing it in yellow. I saved black and white images, too: This nice gentleman is painting a pretty turned leg or bedpost. See the little pictures of some of the Ole pieces at the bottom? I blew it up for you! An orange armoire and the desk (or vanity) in yellow with the mirror: I love it in all colors- but back then, I think orange was my favorite. What a lucky little girl to have a room like this: The desk, the chair, the bed: I even spotted a piece of it in the Tom Hanks movie "Big" last time I watched it. And I also saw a piece (which had been painted - bummer) in the show "Find and Design" that used to be on A&E - I miss that show! And this orange desk was for sale at Golightly's Antiques in North Richland Hills, Texas last year. If I could have driven to Texas and brought it home, believe me, I would have! Still in love.... Here it is in white with blue and green flowers. I cannot express how much I love this furniture. Do you think it is odd that I STILL love it today as much as I did then? I would gladly put it in my house RIGHT NOW. Anybody out there - if you have any old BHG magazines (or other home decorating magazines) from the late 60's or early 70's- and you see another advertisement - I am BEGGING you - I want it. PLEASE. This is a very sad story. Believe it or not, I actually found a dresser and mirror a few years ago in a local thrift shop. I could NOT believe my eyes. It wasn't perfect, but it was only $35. Tina took this picture for me with her phone. I couldn't leave it without at least having picture to remember it by: $35 isn't very much, but I didn't have it. And we can honestly not fit another piece of furniture into our house. Get rid of something else to make room for it? I didn't think my husband would do it. I didn't even ask. And so where would I have put it if I HAD taken it home? Not to mention the fact that I couldn't have brought it home without his help anyway. To this day, I am kicking myself in the ASS for not having just bought it anyway. I don't want to talk about it anymore.