Monday, July 6, 2020

A Handy How-To-Book For Fathers

Figures I'd find this funny little spiral bound, vintage Hallmark Father's Day card / book a few weeks AFTER Father's Day, but here it is anyway, and aside from the pogo stick suggestion page, I think I've actually got most of these "how to's" already well covered. Super fun art, and I know it sounds cliche, but it's true-- they really don't make them like this anymore.











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8 comments:

  1. Brian BarnesJuly 06, 2020

    I think the first piece of advice "botch every job" isn't the answer to "how to get out of work" but "how to be murdered in your sleep."

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  2. Mr. CavinJuly 06, 2020

    Man, this is great printing. Every one of these looks like it could have been painted by hand right onto the card. The "Botch every job" page got the biggest laugh out of me, but it's that TV set I'm stealing for my own use.

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  3. WendyJuly 07, 2020

    Too cute! I wonder if he's watching "Gunsmoke"? I'm more of a Bonanza girl myself, lol.

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  4. Craftypants CarolJuly 07, 2020

    Man that lineup of dads on the front is awesome!

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  5. Mr. KarswellJuly 11, 2020

    I've intentionally botched a few things just to get out of doing it, but it was mostly work related furniture assembly and seriously, nobody got time for the crap.

    As far as the TV page-- I hope he's watching Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou! ;)

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  6. Mr. CavinJuly 11, 2020

    I love Cat Ballou! Be a shame to watch it in 4:3, tho.

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  7. Mr. KarswellJuly 11, 2020

    Hell, I spent a childhood watching it on UHF on a crappy little black and white tv all through the 70’s, tinfoil rabbit ear antennae’s and all

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  8. Mr. CavinJuly 11, 2020

    Ha! Yeah.... my family had a little white plastic maybe thirteen-inch black and white portable we used on vacation, but all I ever really remember in our own houses were nineteen-inch color models made to look like they had a wooden cabinet. That plural means we got a new one when the old one died. There were never any two TVs in the house at once, not the whole time was growing up. I didn't even get my own radio till I was like eleven years old. My first personal TV came well after I'd moved out on my own, probably in my twenties.

    tl;dr: I've never seen Cat Ballou in black and white. But definitely in pan-and-scan.

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