Just Another Country?

This full-page ad is from the July 18, 1969 issue of Time.

No, it isn't the right side of a two-page spread.  This was it.

Grand idea, ain't it?  Everybody on Earth feeling connected and family-like?  Until next week, do your part to help it happen.

  

I Call This One "Uncle Medals"

Because these two squibs ran one above the other in the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

No word on whether any of those previous gold medals have since turned up in Moscow pawn shops.  See you next Monday!

  

You Too Can Stamp the Moon!

Or something like that.

It's from the July 20, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.  It's only appropriate that a stamp commemorating a Moon shot is for Air Mail, eh?

Talk to you next week!

  

Moon Walk Under Discussion

According to this article from the August 15, 1969 Tulsa World ...

In mine own opinion, an after-banquet rubber-chicken speech in no wise could adequately cover the implications of our steps on the Moon!

Make up your own list, and I'll see you next week!

  

Look Out for Drink Boosters!

In this article from the August 21, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, we learn the perils of a Moon landing might land on those who wanted liquor-by-the-drink in Oklahoma.

You know, that "Lunar holiday" is one more thing to blame ol' Tricky Dick for!  As if most folks needed something else ...

See you Monday for another clipping.  Hope it doesn't drive you to drink!

  

Neil Young, Take Note!

The singer's "Heart of Gold" was recorded in 1971, so it's possible that he was inspired partly by MOONS of Gold.

Is it even a teeny bit possible?  You decide!

By the by, this was clipped from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.  As you may read here, one of these critters was sold in March 2022 for the US equivalent of about $53,000.  And cheap at the price, I say!

By John Barbour

Whether this book, Footprints on the Moon, is an assembly of stuff Barbour wrote as an AP "space expert," or generated instant-book-style, I can't say.

This ad/article appeared in the August 17, 1969 Tulsa World.

You can buy your own copy on Amazon or at other booksellers, where you will find that the book's cover looks like the above.  However, I ain't got one.

See you next Monday!

  

Some Moonish Ads

These are both from the August 1, 1969 issue of Time.

Honeywell Industries is now "Honeywell Automation India Limited."

Stouffer's is still in business as they were in 1969.  I also found a PDF of Stouffer's press kit puffing their moon-food connection, available here.

See you next Monday!

  

They Deserved a Medal ... and You Can Buy One

 This semi-disguised ad for "commemorative" aka "exploitative" coins is from the Tulsa World of August 13, 1969.

The "Money Clips" column was an actual syndicated feature.  If you look it up, you will find several scans or repros of articles by Mort Reed, but no actual info about the guy or his writings.

I'd love to hear if anybody bought (or inherited) such a treasure.  Until then (or next Monday), I remain your faithful servant.

  

If It's a Dwarf, It May Be a Hoax!

These two articles ran side-by-side in the edition of Bartlesville's Examiner-Enterprise for Sunday, July 20, 1969.

I wonder how the New Church took the news about the absence of Moon Dwarfs.  Their official site is here.

Regarding the second article, aren't you likewise bemused that anybody would fall for the idea of close-up photos of the Moon, taken from Earth?  Surely if you were educated enough to read a newspaper, you knew that the technology of your day wasn't quite that advanced?

Ponder such musings while you breathlessly await next Monday's post!  See you then.

  

Three Fillers

All three of these mini-clippings are from the July 22, 1969 Tulsa World.

According to the University of Florida's Canal Record in 1960, Cal Bard wrote "Rhyming Our Times" for the World. He was also quoted in a 1962 State of Oklahoma publication.

In re the above, think of America as The Little Red Hen.  The UN is made of up all the animals who didn't help make the bread, but are ready to eat it after the Little Red Hen finishes baking.

Regarding this Variety blurb, I don't know if "GET STAR DASH ......" was supposed to be part of the headline or not.

You too can wonder, until next Monday.  See you then!

  

Stamps and Moon Medals

From the August 17, 1969 Tulsa World.

No, I don't think you should send off to the addresses hoping to redeem these offers.  See you on Monday.

  

All Aboard for Mongo!

From the August 4, 1969 Newsweek.

Where do they get their far-out ideas?

See you next Monday.

  

Available from Clarke's Good Clothes (in 1969 That Is!)

 From the Tulsa World of July 22, 1969.

Au revoir until next week!

  

Dial Soap Presents a Moon Map!

The folded version of Dial Soap's Rand-McNally Moon Map may be seen on the right-hand side of the header art for this blog.  It came out in 1968, in the big publicity run-up to Apollo 11.

This is side 1.

And above is the other side.  Pretty spiffy, huh?

Following are close-up scans of selected parts.

The moonwalk depicted was, of course, in the future -- which is why we have a painting, not a photo, of the achievement!

See you next week.

   

Ads from the August 1, 1969 TIME -- part 1

A lot of companies rushed to congratulate Apollo and the good ol' USA on the Moon landing.

See you next Monday, friends!

  

I Joined the Aero Space Reading Club! Did You?

This was in 1967.  I'm sure this was one of the many subtle ways the US Government encouraged our generation to investigate and/or invest our lives in science and tech.

I remember Rabbit Hill but not its sequel.  As you might imagine, I devoured Hardy Boys mysteries, as well as Jay William's Danny Dunn series.

The above is a 1967 depiction of a rocket's trip to the moon.

The last book on the list, a Man from U.N.C.L.E. juvenile tie-in from Whitman, was only a foretaste of the Ace "adult" paperbacks and tons of other U.N.C.L.E. merch -- an addiction which remains to this day!

I couldn't find much online evidence of the Aero Space Reading Club.  A couple of pins (I never got one) -- and one newspaper mention.

This is from a 1969 newspaper in Chambersberg, PA.

See you next Monday!

  

"Spirit of Apollo" Poster

The August 22, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise carried this ad for a poster:

And this is the poster:

I had one on the back side of my bedroom door until high-school graduation.

See you next Monday!

  

Beware of Fake Moon Dust!

And don't buy Neil Armstrong's dandruff, either!  See you next Monday.  Until then, check out these articles about creating fake moon dust on purpose:

From nasa.gov

From space.om

Suing over moon dust

Auctioned moon dust

To the moon, baby!

  

We Work with Apollo, So Buy Our Products!

These two ads from the September 12, 1969 issue of Time are only two of the myriads of self-pufferies by many of the companies which either provided tech or advice to Apollo ... or companies which, like the "official sponsors" of sports teams nowadays, bought their way in.

Now, General Dynamic has a valid trumpet to toot.

Rand McNally is more of a stretch, although they did print (in 1968) an "official" map of the moon, which I'll share in due time.

See you next Monday with something mundane or momentous, but definitely of lunar importance!