Sunday, January 07, 2007

Time Traveling Sunday Shopping

This is simply pleasant for what it is: 1957 boosterism about a "new way of merchandising", featuring Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, California. I love the narrator's voice, which is of course vaguely familiar.

You half expect marionettes, but I assure you they do not make an appearance.

"Shopping Can Be Fun"



You can find it at YouTube here, if this third party connection is buffering.

posted by Jackson @ 5:08 PM 

7 Comments:

Blogger Trudging said...

Oh beam me back to the 50's, everything looks so clean and hopeful

8:15 AM  
Blogger Jackson said...

I couldn't believe the traffic! Maybe all those big cars made the roads look more full.

6:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I AM WATCHING FOOTBALL. Don't you feel mild alarm! ANd you are stuck in the fifties, a very bad time by the way what with Strontium 90 going around the globe poisoning us and women having to wear waist cinchers and act like housewives.

7:57 PM  
Blogger Jackson said...

The Strontium 90? Was that the very large chain gang that managed to escape and fool people into thinking they were a siamesse family?

Waist cinchers, my eye. You're thinking of 1950's style illustrations and cartoons. Like you were wearing a corsett, I don't believe it. If anything the clothes were too loose, hiding the female form.

You had your nose in a book and missed the 50's like you missed the 60's, is my guess...

10:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hah you imbecile. I wore a waist cincher in 1959, the entire year. And petticoats. And bobby sox. And a pony tail.

It was a dreadful decade what with Ike playing golf and everyone in a dither over that General, the one who blathered on about old soldiers fading away. And the bomb, and the Russians. And Taiwan.

It was a dreadful time. I did however get to read a lot. Peyton Place was a high point.

11:00 PM  
Blogger Jackson said...

You wore a cincher in '59 and I'm the imbecile? My good woman. Madam Doctor. I'll be seeking a second opinion and it better be complimentary.

11:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I stand on my statement about wearing a waist cincher. Horrid thing there.

But the fifties were repellent to me, all that faux nice family stuff. I saw families, lived in a family,,we were not like the tv families. Only good thing was nobody talked about trans fats, smoking, the environment, etc.

But the 60's, that ruinous decade, would not have happened had it not been for the forties. Really, all those boys and girls without fathers in the first few years caused all kinds of problems. At least, that is what I thought.

8:43 AM  

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