amylsacks' photos

Okay, okay! I'll join the Black Olive Cult if it means I get a chance to win this adorable serving set!

It's dinner, and it's a hooked rug design!

Not officially diet food, but I'm pretty sure it launched a lot of therapeutic fasts.

They didn't give us a shot of the "Crisp Cruster" mentioned on the opposite page, and I for one am pretty sad about it.

I don't know if it helps, but the "Luncheon Salad Loaf" doesn't contain any salmon. It's laden with plenty of cottage cheese, vinegar, and pimento, though.

"Today, California produces 99 per cent of all American grown olives. Little did the Franciscan padres realize back in 1767 when they brought the first olive tree cuttings to California that they were laying the cornerstone of a tremendous industry..." Or that they'd be responsible for such delights as "Olive Chick-etti," "Piquant Olive Pie," and the timeless glory that is "Spoon Bread Tamale Bake." Front cover of a 16-page booklet published by California Foods Research Institute, San Francisco, California. (I found the year referenced here .)

Everything goes great until the night you get a little buzzed on aperitifs and try to cook your roast in the kitchen sink. From the August issue of Sunset magazine.

It takes thirty or forty of these cute miniature pineapples to fill just one glass of juice! From the August issue of Sunset magazine.

What other decade brought as many hunky heartthrobs to Ad-land as the 1950s? From the July and August (R) issues of Family Circle.

Oh, and thanks to the theater mavens at Wikipedia for helping me pinpoint the year.

Someday, I'll admit to once not knowing that we also had a Vancouver on this side of the U.S.-Canadian border, but not today. Front and back sections of a fold-out.

Shown here in glorious Gauze-O-Vision! From the August issue of Sunset magazine.

"Use Only Brush and Water and Watch the Colors Appear. Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin." Hey, I remember these! They were still around in the 1970s. (And I've never heard of this artist before, but she definitely knew her cats!)

More sugar and salt will ease the pain of returning to school next month. My favorite grocer says so! Clipped from the August issues of Sunset (L, 1952) and Family Circle (R, 1953) magazines.

"...Under proper conditions the Daffodils can be 'naturalized' or made to grow as if they were 'wild.' Open woodland where the trees are so widely space that sunlight can reach the plants at least a few hours each day, and sunny slopes or grassy meadows where the grass need not be cut until after the foliage of the Narcissus has ripened, are ideal locations for this practice..."

"...The true Poet's Narcissus ["Horace" and "Thelma"] are natives of southern Europe where, from France to Greece, they thrive in moist situations in a little shade. They may be recognized by their snow-white petals, yellow or lemon flat eye or crown, and the fact that the blooms are usually solitary..." "...At least a score of Double Narcissus are in commerce, most of which are used by the florists for forcing; few are seen in gardens..."

At least no major fast food chains are peddling "deep fried cheese stuffed-crust apple 'pizzas.'" Well, none I've heard of anyway. From the August issue of Sunset magazine.

The show bathroom, like the famed "guest" towel, is never meant to be clouded by the presence of actual human beings. From the August issue of Sunset magazine.