Easter was a little less than a month away back in 1956 when the full page ad for Hart's Jewelry below appeared in the Lorain Journal on March 8, 1956 – 70 years ago this week.
Twenty dollars seems to have been the set amount that Hart's was offering for old watches (which is roughly $239 in today's inflated greenbacks).
Looking at the ad, I wondered if people today still wore a lot of expensive jewelry – and if so, where do they wear it? I used to always wear a watch but when I started working at my present job, I discovered that jewelry of any kind is forbidden because of safety reasons. (It's a manufacturing plant.) So I've gotten out of the habit.
Anyway – as longtime readers of this blog know – I always try to find out if some featured item in an ad managed to escape the garbage dump and survive, decades later. (Remember ol' Lanky Long?)
In this case, it was the stiff-legged 27 inch rabbit that I was looking for. Sure enough, there was one on eBay!
Twenty-four inches? I guess he shrunk a bit due to old age – like me.
I still wear a watch, although my phone, which I always carry, has the time.
ReplyDeleteI've worn a watch for over forty years, and it's become a habit. It has to be a digital (generally Timex) multi function (although I rarely use the extra functions), military time, European day/date setting, hourly chime.
Even worse; I 'm just high enough on the autism spectrum that one of my pet quirks is to try to keep all my digital devices in sync.
Have a good day .
I have a number of nice watches (both wrist- and pocket-) but hardly ever wear one. I tend to lean towards my grandfather's pocket-watch or my dad's wristwatch when I do indulge. My great-grandfather-in-law's railroad watch is a pain to set - you have to remove/replace the crystal - so I wind it occasionally to keep it running, but don't use it.
ReplyDeleteThe time I'm mostly not tracking with my sundry watches has swollen my finger joints a bit with arthur-right-us, so any rings sit in a drawer, too.
I was never one for manly versions of necklaces and bracelets and so mostly walk around unadorned by precious metals.
And the rabbit doll creeps me out. Just sayin'.
I used to wear a watch.The newer dial quartz kind that takes a battery.Not the old style that had a real mechanism and had to be wound up.But working in a auto plant,everytime I would hit the spot welding gun,the arms on the watch would go flying all around like a tachometer.I mainly wore it just to watch this little show but it didn't actually seem to harm the cheap Chinese watch.I still have it around somewhere.
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