CapricornOneVintage

Super Exciting News!

2011-12-18T17:28:00.001-08:00

july 1968, a photo by CapricornOneVintage on Flickr.

Well, it is to me anyway...I finally hit 100,00 views on flickr today! I was so excited, I took a screen shot:

I think it's a good time to telly you I added a bunch of new scans. There's everything from tintypes to cookbooks to astrological charts of random famous people and also some old Kodak photos like the one of the girl and her grandparents at the top of the post.

Oh Cute!

2011-12-10T17:05:00.001-08:00

Saw this Schilling Fancy Decors bottle at the flea market today. The color is wonderful, the font is great and the illustration of that girl is adorable! Why can't labels be like this anymore? *sigh*

Lil' Softy

2011-11-21T19:37:00.000-08:00

So I got off my butt and went thrift shopping this weekend.....oh thrifts how I missed you! I managed to find some cool items to buy, one of which is right here, a 1970s Lil' Softy advertising doll still in her package. She is currently for sale in my Etsy store.

For those of you who are not familliar with Lil' Softy's magic, or just need a refresher course, here is a youtube video I found. I totally remembered this from my childhood (yes, I'm old...shut up!), but I guess I must have blocked out her creepy Carol Channing like voice. (Feel free to ignore the Dairy Queen commercial that comes after, though it's sort of interesting to watch in it's own weird way.)

NO NO NO!

2011-09-30T12:59:00.001-07:00

I'm all for upcycling or reusing vintage items when it's appropriate, but this just seems like wanton destruction........

Hello There....

2011-09-29T14:28:00.001-07:00

1950s hippo greeting card inside, a photo by CapricornOneVintage on Flickr.

OMG! I see I haven't updated this blog for 5 MONTHS. yikes! where does the time go? I'm sorry little blog, I'll try to do better by you....it's just that tumblr came calling and then google+ (so far I've managed to stay away from pinterest, but I don't know for how long) and also I've been busy listing on etsy, running to the post office, scanning pix and sometimes posting them on flickr, updating my facebook page and twitter once in a while. With all that, plus dealing with daily life...my medication makes me sleepy (but I am in remission currently, yeah!) and some of the astrological aspects of the last few months have been less than pleasant....I'll admit it, sometimes I just get overwhelmed and then I become neglectful.....*sigh*

Anyway, I hope all of you are happy, healthy and doing well. Since it's too late to wish you a nice Summer, I'll wish you a nice Fall instead.........

What's Up?

2011-04-24T14:35:00.001-07:00

1960 mccormick spices schilling food colors vanilla easter ad, a photo by CapricornOneVintage on Flickr.

Happy egg hunting, candy scarfing and cake eating day! Hope you are all having a nice spring as well. Springtime means sales, and currently there is an awesome one going on! Be sure to check out the VMTEAM + VETT= Spring Fling promo. Two of my favorite teams on etsy (and yes, i may be partial since i'm a member of both) are working in tandem to bring you some great deals on vintage. Just go to etsy and type 'vtgspring' into the search bar and see what you can't live without (Don't take too long, tho. The sale ends on May 2nd) ♥

PS: There are new scans on flickr and now CapricornOneVintage has a tumblr account too!

2011-02-07T22:22:00.000-08:00

When I was going through some of those vintage mags for scanning, I came across an ad featuring my childhood nemisis: Salmon Loaf!
Oh I can remember it plain as day, but I never thought I'd be forced to look at it ever again. This is just like my Great Aunt Hilda used to make, only without the lemons.
Not only did Aunt Hilda live in a time warp, she cooked in a time warp as well. I call it depression era cooking...all sorts of bits and scraps added to things, some leftover and some not. Odd combinations....
She would make stuff like cream of wheat with EGG...oh yuck. I'd always refuse that one, and she would get so mad at me. Sometimes she would put the egg in it and then some CHERRY PIE FILLING or CAKE MIX. I'm not even joking. She was famous for cooking steak and vegetables together in a blackened frying pan on the stovetop. They would come out so rubbery and set off the smoke alarm every time! By far the grossest thing she ever cooked was the salmon loaf.......I used to dread Fridays because being the good Catholic she was, it was fish day...and more often than not that meant salmon loaf. The recipe calls for bread crumbs, but I know she used saltine crackers sometimes. Then it would be sickningly soggy. I don't want to think about what else she might have thrown in there... I used to ask my friends if they had ever eaten salmon loaf and NONE of them had, they hadn't even heard of it. Have you? I wish I hadn't. Well, I would try hard to choke it down and mostly I succeeded until this one time. The last time I ever ate salmon loaf I was about 9 years old. I ate the loaf and then I began to feel woozy. Little did I know I was about to be hit with the worst stomach flu of my young life. I mean I thought I was going to die my stomach hurt so bad. You know, salmon loaf has a hard time sitting well in a healthy stomach, so this time it didn't stand a chance. I won't gross you out with the details, but let's just say that to this day I cannot stand to smell, let alone eat salmon. In fact, I get the jitters just looking at that picture......

New vintage ad scans on Flickr

2011-02-06T23:06:00.001-08:00

1960s princess phone ad
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

I've just posted quite a few vintage ads on flickr. My magazine stashing tendencies are out of control and I must get rid of some. I'm taking apart and scanning stuff out of the ones not worth keeping. It's a work in progress, there are so many. I will be selling some of the better magazines in my Etsy and Artfire stores soon. I'll keep you posted.....

Pink frosted cupcakes...

2011-01-28T09:24:00.001-08:00

somehow make everything better.....especially breakfast ♥

Damn cats....

2011-01-21T17:57:00.000-08:00

My cats are lucky they are so cute, otherwise this carnage would be unforgivable!

Looks like I'll be busy with the glue bottle soon.......*sigh

Monkees scans on Flickr

2011-01-10T23:00:00.001-08:00

monkees monthly nov.1967 back cover
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

Way back in July I did manage to put up scans of some of my Monkees stuff.....(and some other 60s pop culture stuff too)
go check them out & give them some love ♥

Happy 2011...!!!

2011-01-10T22:32:00.000-08:00

Hmmmm...well, I'm only 10 days late with that greeting and that's better than I have been in quite some time!
I'm back and I hope to stay healthy enough to hang around for awhile. My crohn's disease was so bad last fall that I ended up having 'suprise!' surgery. I came out of it minus a just over a foot of intestines and my appendix.
Now i feel pretty great! And the best part is, no more hella expensive self-injectable (yikes) meds that don't work (and give me arthritis and make me tired/cranky). I'm just on a maintenence dose of Imuran, and I'll cross my fingers that I stay out of the hospital and away from another surgery for a long long time!
Now I am looking and seeing where I'm completely behind on things, and I'm starting to work on fixing it.
I'm hoping that by the end of the month I will have made some headway. I'll get back to listing in my Etsy and Artfire shops, and then I'll be working on my website.
So, anyways, Happy New Year!! Hope It's a good one for you and yours. :)

montgomery ward catalog scans on flickr

2010-08-25T19:50:00.001-07:00

montgomery ward summer 1959 catalog
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

i know i haven't been here much this summer. i'm not dead yet and i didn't abandon this blog. this year has been a real see saw with my crohn's disease and i'll probably be having surgery soon....i will post more about that after my appointment with the surgeon next month.
but in the meantime, i did manage to post some vintage montgomery ward catalog scans to my flickr account.... go check them out here!
hope you all survived the cardinal grand cross in one piece, and managed to have a nice summer too.....♥

Etsy Vmteam Christmas in July Sale

2010-07-09T23:18:00.000-07:00

Oh, please forgive my lengthy absence from this blog. So much has been going on, but that's for a different post. I really wanted to mention the etsy vmteam is having a Christmas in July sale. I am not participating(Scrooge!), but lots of great shops are. Go snag a bargain or two! When you get to Etsy remember to use 'vmteamxmas' as your search term.
Happy shopping...♥

MAYDAY Sale! ♥

2010-04-29T23:29:00.000-07:00

More vintage packaging on flickr

2010-04-11T18:09:00.001-07:00

1970's lysol can
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

I posted pictures of some of the vintage packaging I found at the hoarder house estate sale....crazy the amount of things that got saved.
click HERE to go there!
The Lysol can just about sums up my childhood. My Great Aunt Hilda (hoarder extrordinare) was totally addicted to it. She carried Lysol everywhere. Couldn't use a public bathroom without it. That smell is forever ingrained in my memory (along with Porcelana & Jergens). She was a germ phobic yet lived in a hovel. I adored her, she taught me all about yard sales (still have my prized A&W root bear bear after all these years..I only paid 5 cents for it) and second hand stores. I was at her house nearly every day & I spent vast amounts of time living in some distant past among all the out of date items. She had phone books from 1966, plates from 1935 & clothes from 1952. She kept everything...from cereal boxes and a skeleton of a seahorse to samples of the first mini pads that didn't use a belt...she was well past 70 and had no need for them, but she said they made good coasters.
My aunt passed away when I was 13. I went to live in California for a few months. My mom cleared out the whole house while I was gone and I've never quite gotten over it.

Selected scenes from a hoarder estate sale

2010-04-10T22:09:00.000-07:00

They say pictures tell a story, I only wish I could have gotten a picture of the whole yard & the street it spilled out on. This is the tip of the iceberg, there are still outbuildings in the back to be cleaned out before they get to the house. I've never seen so much stuff in one place and I grew up with hoarders. The weird thing is that this house is small, the yard isn't huge and it's in a residential area, not out on acreage. I lived in that neighborhood and walked by that house for years, I had no idea. The pity of it is that improper storage, mice & bugs had gotten to some of it..and most of it is pretty smelly. Like any true hoarders the items they kept varied: some things found were a mix of trash (literal garbage) in with noritake china, weird stuff like stacks full of old underpants with pee stains, new old stock 1950s,60s & 70s clothes (armloads, boxes & bags full...mini mountians of it), tons of vintage japanese embroidered clothes & asian items, cheap new christmas items mixed with vintage, stuffed animals, stacks of national enquirer magazine from 1980 (I bought them all)...pajamas, pajamas & more pajamas. 8 track tapes, lots of old as seen on tv junk, wringer washers,a pool table, wigs galore & puzzles. so many puzzles. also tons of horse racing items, someone spent some time at the track. wonder if they knew my grandparents? a whole lifetime (or two) of junk up for grabs......can't wait to see what's in the house!

Item of the week.....

2010-03-23T19:55:00.001-07:00

In honor of Spring and the fact that I actually managed to list a few things today, I'm choosing this super darling 1940/50s clear rhinestone necklace as item of the week. This is currently available in my Etsy store. I will sweeten the deal: if you convo me and say you saw it on the blog, I will throw in a pair of matching rhinestone screwback earrings ABSOLUTELY FREE!
What could be better?
♥

PS: While you are checking out Etsy, don't forget to type in vmteam into the search engine, see what kind of lovely things you can find from my fellow Vintage Market Team members!

Sunshine Award........

2010-03-13T19:49:00.000-08:00

Thanks so much to Finding Charm for nominating my blog for a Sunshine Award. As you all know I haven't been around as much as I'd like to be lately, so this is a really cool suprise. I feel so blessed and not forgotten! :)

Here are the rules for accepting this award...

* Put the logo on your blog or within your post.

* Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.

* Link the nominees within your post.

* Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.

* Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

Here are my 12 in no particular order:
1.boylerpf

2.GreenTrinity

3.Pleasant Family Shopping

4.myvintagevogue

5.www.weezi.com

6.tenthings

7.selloholicmom

8.One of a Kind Wisconsin LLC

9.Etsy Vintage Street Team

10.Hellcat Vintage

11. State Of Cake

12. Spice and Everything Nice

Just click on the names to go visiting!
♥

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.....Peeps!

2010-03-07T21:05:00.000-08:00

It's nearly Easter and that means it's time for disgusting candy! I know you can get Peeps year around, but I only buy them at Easter, and I only buy the pink bunnies. It's tradition.
The best way to eat them is to cut a slit in the cellophane. Let them sit for a day or two & get hard on the outside. Gross? Perhaps. Yummy? YES.

New stuff on flickr....

2010-03-04T23:24:00.001-08:00

dolly darlings paper dolls
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

Well not new as in today, but fairly recent. I did manage to scan some stuff and post it on flickr last month. Hopefully I'll have some energy to post some new things soon. This batch has vintage music ads, packaging & toys.

Item of the week

2010-03-04T18:58:00.000-08:00

Forgive my absence. I've been trying to recoup from this last Crohn's bout. It's been slow going around here, I just don't have any energy. (I partially blame Mars retrograde.) This flare isn't really settling down the way I'd like it to. Just got off another round of Prednisone and I'm waiting for the Imuran to take effect. Crossing fingers it does, I really do not want to go back on biologics.

Okay, enough of that! On to the item of the week.
Sweet little 1930s filigree & clear crystal necklace.
Perfect for a wedding, prom or just because you feel like it!

click the ♥ to go to the Etsy listing. If you send me a convo saying you saw it on here, I'll give you free shipping!

Of fallen air raid sirens & sickness

2010-02-07T17:05:00.001-08:00

federal sd-10 air raid siren 2
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

I can't believe it's been three weeks since I last posted here. I apologize, this last three weeks have been like a trainwreck! Quick rundown: 1. Case of mistaken identity leading to twitter stalking/unacceptable behavior. 2. Crohn's disease rears it's ugly head again. I thought I had gotten the last flare up (over x-mas) under control with the icky prednisone & got on imuran. Apparently not, as I ended up in the hospital with it this time. Paralytic Ileus & partial obstruction. In the ER they gave me dilaudid...only too much, I think I almost quit breathing. I was gray and nodding off every 5 minutes. Kinda scary! Also got to experience the NG tube for the first time. OMG! I never want to see that thing agian! It didn't like me and at about 4 am it decided to kink up in the back of my throat and suffocate me. The poor nurse had to rip it out so fast & it made such a mess. Lame. So, I'm back on the steroids & just got done with a course of Flagyl & Amoxicilian. Doctor tomorrow. I really hope he doesn't want to schedule a scope or anything...
I have not managed to get any sort of work done these last three weeks, and it's driving me crazy. I am really hoping to get back into the swing of things this next week. Wish me luck.
While I've been laying around here trying not to sleep 23 of every 24 hours, I did look at some of my old pix I had saved onto disks. I found a few of the poor old air raid siren they dismantled in my town a few years ago. Oh, I say a few years ago, I really mean 10 years ago. eek. where does the time go? I put them up on my flickr account if anyone is interested. It always bothers me when these old things go away, and it's been happening alot lately. All I can do is remember to take pix & document for future reference.........
xo
PS: I want to thank everyone who participated in the Kreativ Blogger Awards...it was really great to read about you ♥

Kreativ Blogger Award

2010-01-18T09:55:00.001-08:00

Omg! Was I ever shocked to open the mail telling me that Julie Dembowski (click the ♥ to go visit her informative blog) had picked me to recieve a Kreativ Blogger Award. She's one of my favorite Astrologers and lovely twitter friend! Thank you so much Julie...I appreciate your encouragement and this award! xo

I put some goals down on paper (to make them manifest more powerfully) during the New Moon/Eclipse on Friday. Wish #2 was promote more and find ways to promote others. On Friday I was suprised by a nice write up in Riddle blog. Then on Saturday I was featured in Finding Charm blog..another neat suprise. I was chatting with Sarah on twitter and I told her I was looking for ways to promote others and that she had inspired me. I wasn't quite sure what or how I was going to promote, so I had been thinking about it on and off, and on Sunday I was given this fabulous award by Julie. I thought about it and *bingo* I knew this would be the gift that allowed me to pay it forward! How's that for manifestation? Thank you Universe ♥

There are some rules that go along with this award. They are as follows

1. Copy/paste the Kreativ Blogger Award picture onto your blog
2. Thank the person who awarded it to you and post a link to her/his blog
3. Write 7 things about yourself we might not know
4. Choose 7 other bloggers to award
5. Link to them
6. Notify your 7 bloggers of their award

Here are 7 things you may not know about me (and if you do......shhhhhh!)

1. When I was 21 my best friend and I sold all our stuff (except our extensive record collections) packed two ridiculously large backpacks and moved to Manchester, England. We didn't know anyone or even have hotel reservations.

2. I am an empath.

3. The best thing I ever sold on ebay was a silver haired 'american girl' barbie doll head. just the head...went for $437.00. That was 10 years ago, I wonder what she'd fetch today.

4. My favorite tarot deck is the Aliester Crowley Thoth deck. It never lies to me!

5. I've been in two arson fires. One in a hotel in Vancouver, B.C., the other in a one bedroom flat in Salford, (Manchester) England. The hotel one was two floors above me. The apartment one put me (my best friend & her new husband) 5 minutes from death. They never caught the guy who did it, but we think he was the one who told the newspapers he single handedly rescued us all. Total liar and psychopath.

6. I'm totally nerdy and obsessive about old supermarkets, restaurants, drug & clothing stores. But only ones from @1930-1980.

7. I once sold a pair of 1950s silky granny panties ( white & frilly...with tags, never worn...large size) to a high ranking officer in the Navy. He asked that I declare the contents of the package 'clothing' and not leave feedback.

The 7 Blogs I choose (in no particular order)

1. Finding Charm

2. Crafty as Hell

3. Charm City Couture

4. Funk Astrology

5. myvintagevogue

6. selloholicmom

7. Thriftgoddess!

Just click the name to go there ♥

Item of the week.....

2010-01-14T19:36:00.000-08:00

This 1930s goldtone filigree, colorful enamel & purple rhinestones coat/dress clip is springtime in jewelry form.

It's so bright, colorful and cute....and if you didn't like it as a clip, it would make a wonderful centerpiece for a necklace.

Available in my Artfire studio right now. If you tell me you saw it on here, I'll give you free shipping. Click the heart to go there ♥

Chebe cinnamon rolls make me happy!

2010-01-10T20:59:00.000-08:00

Since going gluten free a few years ago (2.5 to be exact) due to Crohn's disease, there are still some foods I am sorely missing. I can now cross cinnamon rolls off that list! I realize that these may be old hat to some of you, but the store I go to finally started carrying Chebe mixes. I love the Chebe pizza crust, so I was very excited to try the cinnamon roll mix. I made a batch of 12 mini rolls this morning. The ingredients list could not be easier, applesauce, oil, one large egg & some rice milk, and of course the Chebe mix.

Just mix it with a fork & knead it with your hands. Roll it out into long strings & coil it up...

Cook at 375 for 20 minutes...* Smother with your favorite butter or butter substitute (I reccomend Earth Balance natural buttery spread)& add some frosting. I used Cherrybrook Farms gf frosting. It was good on the rolls, but it would be so annoyingly sweet on a cake. The texture is different from 'normal' rolls, but that is to be expected. These are very chewy on the inside and I happen to like that ♥

*The instructions claim you need to cook these for 30-35 minutes. Do not listen to those instructions. I don't know if it's because I have an older stove that cooks like crazy but after 20 minutes they were done and starting to burn! We took the grater to the bottoms and removed all the burned parts so they were perfectly fine and great tasting. phew....

I have fried my brain with jewelry glue.....

2010-01-09T21:14:00.000-08:00

.....and I'm pretty sure I may be permanently cross eyed. In an attempt to work on some of the things on my list from Wednesday, I started my massive jewelry repair campaign. (The light box is on hold until Monday, but it is still happening..) Due to my pack-rat/hoarder tendencies, I have managed to accumulate quite a stash of jewels in need of repair.
I'm sure it doesn't look like it, but I really did have a clean desk to begin with. (as clean as I can get anyways...) After adding the tools, some water & my tea, the vinegar, plates, tools, jewelry & donor parts boxes it got filled pretty fast. *sigh*

Here is about halfway through...

I learned that vinegar works wonders on verdigris. Just brush it on with a makeup or other small brush so you don't soak the piece and wipe it off with a kleenex or q-tip. Sometimes you have to apply it more than once. Make sure if you have a piece with foil back rhinestones or faux pearls that you don't get the vinegar on those parts. Make sure the jewelry dries completely or the verdigras will come back. That green stuff is so nasty and it can infect your other jewelry. Keep infected pieces out of your jewelry box! Usually I use E6000 for simple jewelry repairs, but that stuff is too messy for small pieces, and it stinks like no-ones business. I got some G-S Hypo Cement in the orange box. I love it, it's so much easier to use! The only gripe i have with it is that you need to put the pin back in the long applicator when not using it, and it is hard to see sometimes.

I was very productive today, but I only ended up repairing about 1/3 of what's needed. I guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow. I'm determined to get that done. I forget how time consuming repair is. I also have to go on the hunt for some clasps and hook closures. As you can see, there are going to be lots of rhinestone pieces for sale in the near future, and I'm pleased to report that red Vendome art glass & rhinestone demi parure is free of the dreaded verdigris!

What I've been working on......

2010-01-06T21:26:00.001-08:00

1950s valentine girl
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

I have been sorta busy this week, even if it doesn't seem like it. I am currently dosing down on prednisone after my annual holiday Crohn's flare...getting ready to try 6-mp soon. The prednisone and current retrograde planets make me feel very unenergetic but I have forced myself to do some things.
So far this week:
I have cleaned out and organized my workspace (I'm too embarassed to post the before photos, but maybe I will do the afters).
I have made a list of all the things I need for building my photo light box and researched where to get the lights and materials. I will have it done this weekend :) I'm so excited about this!!
I have sorted out all the jewelry that needs repairs and stone replacements. I will begin repairing in the next few days.
I did list an early 1900s Arts & Crafts watch fob on Artfire. Its really very cool!
I also scanned and posted some new things to my flickr account tonight.
Now all I really want to do is eat candy and go vintage shopping............♥

Ruby is lovely isn't she?

2010-01-02T22:41:00.001-08:00

ruby is a postcard 1901?
Originally uploaded by CapricornOneVintage

I just uploaded a bunch of scans of pix and ephemera to my flickr account the other day.
Stop by if you get a chance.......
http://www.flickr.com/capricornonevintage

New Years Resolutions

2010-01-01T11:53:00.000-08:00

Happy 2010! This year I have decided that I will try to give this blog some attention. Last year I had such high hopes, but I got quickly overwhelmed.
I'm not positive of the exact direction I'm going with it, but I think I want to make this blog a mix of all the things I love and live with on a day to day basis.
Can't wait to see where we are on Jan 1st 2011!

Top 5 New Year Goals
I'll say goals because they sound like less pressure than resolution.

1. Keep up on Blog...read above ;)

2. Learn to take better pictures. I need to make a light box and really learn my camera inside and out.

3. Work on my website. CapricornOneVintage I would like that to be fully functional in the next few months.

4. Be more organized. In my workspace and living space. I'm a terrible pack rat and clutter collector. Is it really that hard to throw it out or put it away? (yes)

5. Eat a bit healthier. I have crohn's disease and eat gluten free, potato free, soy free & mostly dairy free. There are so many good foods availiable that are pre packaged, but it would be in my best interest to learn some better recipes.

I hope if you have some goals or resolutions that you are able to meet them head on and make this a fantastic year and lovely start to a whole new decade!

I Like It When Everyone Is Drunk

2009-02-25T21:18:00.001-08:00

I am always fascinated with vintage items that feature loveable drunks. This box of Crazy Cartoon Coasters celebrates lushdom with some whimsical mid century illustrations.

Looks like the man on the lower left has actually achieved every professional drinker's dream.......residency inside the bottle.

This batch features a few fighting drunks, one fake abstainer, and one failed sobriety test.

Look at the poor paranoid crying drunk. One more for the road is so bladdered he's practically flying. Also of note: hallucinating pink elephants is awesome.

This one is my favorite drunk guy. He is striking a jaunty pose, one sock..one bare foot. I don't want to know where his shoes went, they are the same place his shirt is. His cigarette is half ash, and the man is mostly booze. 3/4 full. Clearly he is having a great sloppy time, cos he's a casual drinker! Get it? Casual.....drinker.........hahaha.

Want to own these? Click the button below....

Vintage find of the week..........

2009-02-23T22:27:00.000-08:00

It's no secret, I'm a total sucker for cool vintage graphics. I especially love packaging...and this love leads me to buy lots of weird things just for the pretty package. This carpet/stain cleaning kit is just a prime example of some sweet mid-century graphics, and it looks like a briefcase.

I found this box sitting on a shelf at the local thrift store and it was calling me like the siren song. I wasn't dissapointed upon opening......everything is still here, and most of the bottles are nearly full!

Urin-X is my favorite. (Yeah, mentally I'm 12.) It just sounds so futuristic somehow. Plus, I like how the man on the urine bottle is yellow!!

The 'dial a spot' stain remover guide is almost like something from a game. I guess you could make a game out of removing spots......I like the arrow.

The little cleaning brochure is pretty swank. It has a good looking rancher on the front and right above that is a kinda freeform office building. Tres moderne. The inside is full of awesome illustrations of carpeting and Eames type furniture.

Every good product has a coupon for future use. I think this one expired, oh, nearly 51 years ago. August 31, 1957. Oops. The coupon looks like a ticket for a drawing of some sort. The postage on this little thing..........3 cents.

I haven't tried to use any of this on my carpets, though, I'm sorely tempted to give it a go. I did open one bottle and the smell nearly knocked me out. I wonder what Service Master would do if I tried to return this for a refund.......