Trio of precious ticket stubs found at @urbanitepdx
Blue/ No date but this children’s ticket was 50 cents from the Marine Historical Association Inc. which is now the @mysticseaportmuseum
Pink/ A 25.08 cents ticket from Mohawk Airlines which was labor absorbed by @americanair
Tan/ Two 75 cent tickets to the Baseball Hall of Fame @baseballhall
When they put your estate sale purchases inside of a vintage grocery store bag with the receipt still inside 🥹✨
@raleys cute design from 1996… when milk was .99 cents and chunky pineapple was .69 cents 💸
(This is a PSA to continue leaving your grocery receipts in the bags)
Happy 50th Anniversary to Fox & Goose @foxandgoosepub ! @ctrsactohistory posted a sweet photo with the original owners and I was reminded of these two special matchbooks that I got from @inklingvintage ✨🦊🪿✨
If you haven’t tried their Olallieberry scones w/ cream you’re missing out!!
I found this darling stencil pack at a flea market in Barcelona exactly one year ago today!! Then a few months ago I found these colored pencils (previously owned by a Nancy Lynn Bier) at the Sacramento Antique Fair, a match made in heaven 🥹
My friend @lexalion helped me find Nancy and the only one found was this picture. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1972 and the colored pencil company ‘Colleen’ liquidated its assets in 1997 so the timeline checks out!
Some more info I found about Colleen: It was founded in 1916. At one time it was considered one of the big three Japanese pencil manufacturers. Interesting to note that in 1982 Colleen flipped its triangular-shaped logo from right to left, and also changed its logotype to a round gothic font.
The stencil cover looks like it may have a name on it because it was written twice but I am unsure! I would for sure write my name on the front if I owned that as a kid!! There are about 25 stencils in the pack but I’m just showing a handful.
Two unique pieces of history that have traveled far to be with me today, I am so grateful that I get to have them (for now).
Did you know that dairy products are California’s number one agricultural commodity. I couldn’t find much info on Union Farms in Sacramento besides an old photograph from @ctrsactohistory archives dating to the 1900’s (last slide) but California is rich in Dairy history!
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Some background info on Dairy Farms in California:
The Steele family, including Clara and her husband Rensselaer and his cousins Isaac, Edgar and George, arrived from Ohio and started farming north of San Francisco. In 1857, Clara hired a local Indian man to rope some of the wild cattle that grazed near her home. She milked these cows and, using a recipe from a cookbook that belonged to her English grandmother, began making Cheddar cheese. The cheese was an immediate success in the San Francisco market, which prompted the Steeles to launch a commercial dairy operation that made high quality butter and cheese. Their dairy was one of the first, and quite possibly the first commercial dairy in the entire United States. Looking to expand, the Steeles explored Point Reyes as a possibility.
When their business partner, Colonel Lewis, surveyed the land with Isaac Steele, he declared it “cow heaven!” The family’s new 6,000-acre dairy farm soon prospered on Point Reyes, with its rolling, green grasslands and temperate climate thanks to the recurrent fog.
In the 1870’s, Marin County remained the state’s leading dairy region, followed by Sacramento.
(Source: California Dairy Press Room, link in bio)
This would explain why this beautiful Union Dairy Butter container says Sacramento on it, from a time when our city flourished with farms providing fresh products throughout the city!
Yet another piece given to me from the collection of Dolph Gotelli, a former UC Davis Professor.
This special booklet is from an exhibit called ‘amusements is’ held at The Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council between November 1964 and January 1965.
This design was directed by Paul J. Smith who was “a painter, ceramist, jewelry artist, and woodworker, Smith’s background as an artist informed the way he thought about his work at the Museum, including the exhibitions he curated and his ideas about the function of museums in public life”. (According to madmuseum.org)
I adore this really whimsical and colorful design but most importantly the message it brings, to play more, especially in the practice of art!
