I laughed when I read the stories of covering school books with wall paper and then remembered I still had two books similarly treated on my bookshelf!
The first was my 1965 copy of THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS by Vance Packard published by Penguin Books.
This was required reading before starting my Graphic Design Course at Hornsey College of Art. Nothing to do with the Tony Curtis/Roger Moore TV series but an inside look at the practice of commercial advertising.
The surprise was finding a bill/receipt from December 1965 for a new started for the 10 year old Austin FX3 taxi I had purchased a few weeks before tucked under the wrapper.
The second book was from earlier in the year while in the 6th Form; TUDOR ENGLAND by S.T.Bindoff also a Penguin Book.
My wallpaper was Woodgrain, but smooth, no texture. I had purchased a roll to screen print posters on while taking evening courses at Hornsey College while in the 6th Form.
Keep well,
Terranova47
USA
Where I lived we used paper grocery sacks to make covers for school books.
ReplyDeleteVery practical that!
DeleteLove this story Terran. Its great finding papers inside books like this. I bet £15 was a lot of brass in 1965! How did those phone numbers work? Like the garage one, ARChway .....?
ReplyDeleteARC would have been dialed as 272. Those were the days before all numeral phone numbers.
ReplyDelete£15 was a lot for installing a starter considering a month before the whole taxicab was £60.
Thanks Terran. Fascinating.
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