I'd just like to point out that this IS
museum-related, since I asked the question to help
with an exhibit.

Kim Kenney
Curator
McKinley Museum

--- Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Miracles never end. Despite the fact that this
> thread has been running for a
> number of days and, despite the fact that it is only
> marginally museum
> related there have been no ill-tempered outcries for
> cessation of
> discussion.  There have been no churlish outbursts
> that a lister who has
> subscribed for the past fifty years is ceasing to
> subscribe because of the
> non-professionally relevant postings. I also would
> be surprised if anyone,
> who made a post on this topic received off-line
> barrages of insults and
> personal invectives.
>
> Could this be because the topic is a burning issue
> in the museum community
> or our society? Could that be because our listers,
> who have a penchant for
> defamatory an/or hysterical invective have seen the
> error of their ways?
> Or, could it be because the topic is nostalgic to
> many and true fluff?
>
> I don't have answers to these deep questions, but I
> do appreciate the number
> of days of postings without rancor.
>
> My own memories run to books-Kipling, Robert Luis
> Stevenson, Dickens, Dumas,
> Sir Walter Scott and subscriptions to Boys Life.
> Yes, I had the Radio Flyer
> wagon, the Davy Crockett coonskin cap, a Daisy BB
> gun and the Hopalong
> Cassidy cap pistol but the books are still on my and
> my parent's shelves,
> and their content is part of my character and value
> system
> nburlakoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Indigo Nights
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 1950s Christmas Gifts
>
> Great stuff, Lindsey!
>
> Mink for mom.  Even if it were little pins of
> animals
> made out of mink.
>
>
> --- "Richardson, Lindsey"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > I've enjoyed this thread so much that I forwarded
> it
> > to various family
> > members, who sent me their own lists.  Here's what
> > my relatives wanted in
> > the 50s when they were teen girls:
> >
> > white rabbit fur collars tied with pom-poms on
> > velvet
> > strings to be worn over a short sleeve sweater
> >
>
>
>
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McKinley Museum
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