At work yesterday, I put out all the vintage Twin Cities/Minnesota stuff I had--and it started selling immediately.
With the warm weather (50ºF/10ºC) melting ice, and with the promised departure of ICE, this was our busiest Saturday in a couple months, and people were in a good mood.
Here are some more photos--everything was manufactured in Minnesota or inscribed with some MN connection.
BELOW: These addresses are close to where I live--I thought I might go deliver them!
"Lie flat next to wall!" ? ... So wall can fall on you and your death will be mercifully fast?
BELOW: The Bemidji Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox patch is not vintage ... but it's so cute.
BELOW: I have never heard of a bog lemming, and telling me it is "a robustly built vole" doesn't fill me in much.
Bog Lemmings🤣 with the reputation that lemmings have (false apparently) they'll have to find inventive ways to commit mass suicide.
ReplyDelete😄 😆 lol, true—no cliffs to jump off in a bog
Deletereally cool civil defense booklet! i remember doing those drills when i was in junior high. and love that you have collected all of this ephemera and then put out as a group.
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Thanks, k—this sort of thing could easily get thrown out, so I’m glad I’m there to save it and promote it too 😊
DeleteGood catch on this material. Those bits of advice about bombing! All useless but gave an impression that you weren't helpless. Di I guess it supported people's spirits.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's a positive way of looking at the useless advice--it's true we may feel more active if we're not feeling helpless.
DeleteI suppose I do it too (engage in positive thinking)--to keep my spirits up.
Have you read "When the Wind Blows", graphic novel by British author Raymond Briggs? about a sweet, trusting old couple who follow the ridiculous instructions in a pamphlet like this when a nuclear bomb falls---
making a home shelter out of a door covered in cushions?
Glad that the mood is lifting xx
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a relief---but at this point, mostly for white people though--
Deleteanyone who is vulnerable to ICE attacks is still staying home.