tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post2113369352317861680..comments2024-02-14T03:20:23.057-08:00Comments on Pop Sensation: Paperback 740: Your Own Party Book / Gertrude Crampton (Comet Books 23)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-3996949094204468182014-02-13T04:23:56.136-08:002014-02-13T04:23:56.136-08:00Eli,
I'll send you the book if you email me ...Eli, <br /><br />I'll send you the book if you email me your address at rexparker at iCloud dot com.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-1500246383378334442014-02-12T18:53:55.836-08:002014-02-12T18:53:55.836-08:00This is EXACTLY the kind of book I would have pore...This is EXACTLY the kind of book I would have pored over repeatedly, at 13 or 14 years old, dreaming of the day I would be a groovy, successful party-giver, without the slightest realization that 20-years-out-of-date (at the time) advice might not be the key to social popularity that I'd hoped.<br /><br />I had a "Cooking with Bacardi" booklet from 1972 that gave me similar futile hopes...Marlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03161793223531050486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-5002350838586747042014-02-12T11:09:14.608-08:002014-02-12T11:09:14.608-08:00If no one's claimed it yet, I'm totally wi...If no one's claimed it yet, I'm totally willing to throw one of these parties. I think I have a friend set that would appreciate it.eliselzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075881859273811974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-33820322359595788952014-02-09T13:21:07.340-08:002014-02-09T13:21:07.340-08:00Wow, there's so much here that I associate wit...Wow, there's so much here that I associate with the commercial art of maybe five years later. Lots of modernist design, especially on those coke bottles and the record player. Actually based on both front and back, I'd have guessed this was from the mid-50s.<br /><br />The guy on the front cover is rather suspiciously dark, if you ask me. Not to mention rather feminine. Just what kind of party is this, hmm?<br /><br />But maybe the biggest surprise to me is the bikini in the center of the back cover. Weren't they still rather scandalous in 1949? And if it's not a bikini, then that skirt is daringly short and her midriff is bare.DemetriosXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-52466727912592980862014-02-09T11:00:43.416-08:002014-02-09T11:00:43.416-08:00Isn't Gertrude Crampton also the creator of &q...Isn't Gertrude Crampton also the creator of "the man in the polka dot tie" from Scuffy the Tugboat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com