Jan 04 2009
Time Travel Back 50 Years
Would you like to know how relaxed and slow-moving life in the USA was for your grandparents or great-grandparents? Why not travel back in time? Marty McFly did it (backwards and forwards) in the Back to the Future movies. Unfortunately, maybe we won’t live to enjoy that sort of technology. However, despair not. Even if you weren’t alive in 1958, it really is not at all difficult to get a sense of it. Just consult a catalog from The Vermont Country Store .
The catalogue includes fashions such as Tangee and Tabu make-up from way back when. There are even hair curlers, dusters, pettipants, granny panties, and portable hair dryers with the plastic-bag-type bonnet. For the men, Bay Rum cologne is offered.
Within housewares and other supplies one can purchase the reusable douche/enema bag (a familiar sight half a century ago.) Chenille and rib-cord corduroy bedspreads, flour-sack towels, manual typewriters, cloth handkerchiefs, and oilcloth kitchen appliance covers are some of the other treasures still made.
In foods, once again you can purchase and enjoy a bottle of cod liver oil, movie house Crows gumdrops, or Chiclets gum.
Please know that I mean absolutely no mockery or ridicule for this “Voice of the Mountains®“ family-owned establishment. The store sells up-to-date products such as Pilates balls and Neti pots. However, its vast array of older products is its jewel. The Vermont Country Store is obviously meeting needs. The bonus is that in doing so, it is providing a valuable lesson in anthropology for today’s young students and a nostalgic look back for the old gomers.
Hmm, interesting post. I live in a town that has barely changed since the 50’s so, I get the best of both worlds really.