MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM EVERYTHING CROTON

As always, some oldies but goodies, special requests, new finds and more. Click on the photos and links.

First up--just love the illustration in this 1945 wartime ad for Maxwell House coffee.  It's followed by a fabulous vintage toy---indeed, we think that the Japanese made some of the most fanciful battery operated toys--like this pink “Jumbo the Bubble Blowing Elephant” #10117,  circa 1950s, manufactured by Yonezawa, Japan.And finally, our of favorite vintage made in Japan cardboard music boxes; it plays Silent Night; the deer is celluloid; this piece is probably from the mid-1950's to very early 60's. And finally, a  new TEN CENT CITY flagstone printie putz house--now completed--by Howard Lamey; see it from start to finish here. Again, click on the photos and links.

An oldie but goodie from TOYS AND STUFF: 1948 Kellogg's #1006 The Colonial Cottage - The stuff that dreams are made of. It was 1948 and The War had been over for 3 years but there were still G.I.'s over there in support and security roles. Sooner or later they had to come back home....READ MORE HERE

To Lisa-Lou, lover of vintage aluminum Christmas trees, this one's for you; click here

And by special request: because you can NEVER see enough vintage trains: Courtesy of Black Cap Studios-This is a complete 1954 A.C. Gilbert American Flyer Train Catalog by A.C. Gilbert, New Haven, Ct. 48 full color pages of steamed up and ready to go trains. A.C. Gilbert was the maker of American Flyer Trains and Erector. SEE EVERYTHING IN ALL ITS GLORY here; click on the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackcapstudio/sets/72157622824942749/with/4163399339/

REMEMBERING SANDRA DEE; CLICK HERE

A TUTORIAL FOR THE IRISH COTTAGE PUTZ HOUSE FROM PAPER GLITTER GLUE; CLICK HERE

1963 GE Christmas Lighting and Decorating Guide--This was the first season GE offered complete light sets. Up until this point GE only manufactured Christmas Lamps for retail sale as replacements and as a lamp supplier to lighting string manufacturers. This would begin their dominance in the US Christmas Lighting Industry for well over two decades. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcarter629/albums/72157635510696224

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