This catalog almost ended up in the trash, but I couldn’t do it. It was too book-like. It would go into a sale box.
Year: 2017
Vintage Addresses and Government Cartoons: 1963, When Los Angeles 6 Became Los Angeles 90006
I’ve used ZIP codes all my life, but didn’t know they didn’t exist until 1963. Looking at all the old papers that we had hoarded, I noticed all the old addresses didn’t have zip codes. Continue reading Vintage Addresses and Government Cartoons: 1963, When Los Angeles 6 Became Los Angeles 90006
Sold: Dehoarding: Asia Scene: The Crimson Kimono
Asia Scene was mainly for people doing business in Japan, but this included a lot of Japanese Americans; they operated a Los Angeles bureau out of an office on 2nd St. in Little Tokyo that is no longer there (probably wiped out by 1970s redevelopment). Continue reading Sold: Dehoarding: Asia Scene: The Crimson Kimono
Sold: Dehoarding: Asia Scene: The Roaring Generation (Rockabilly in Japan)
Dehoarding: Asia Scene: Pioneer Stereo Ad
Asia Scene: the First Anime Film, Hakujaden
I didn’t know what this movie was, but web searches revealed that it’s known around the world as the first anime film. The entire film is above. It’s very much in the style of Disney, even in that Toei adapted a foreign story for the film. There are cute animals, cute children, and serious looking adults. I’ve seen only a little of the movie, but, it also has colorism; that’s unfortunate.
Continue reading Asia Scene: the First Anime Film, HakujadenJ.S. Ogilvie Publisher
J.S. Ogilvie was one of the publishers of dime novels in the late 1800s, publishing short books and some novels, printed cheaply, and available at low prices.
SI Hayakawa at SF State
This was an interesting find. A 1968 Time magazine article on SI Hayakawa who was appointed to president at SF State during the student strike that gave birth to ethnic studies.
They used his superficial liberal background, at least what was then considered liberal, and his skin color to push a reactionary (conservative) agenda to stop the student strike. They still do things like this today, but do not say it as explicitly as they would in this article.
That ad on the side is also interesting. It’s a paper tape puncher, so your input can be fed into a computer. The adding machine wasn’t hooked up to a computer, because there were so few computers. They’re called Adding Machines, not calculators, because they didn’t do other kinds of math besides adding and subtracting. This was 1968, one year before the first iteration of the Internet was invented.
Dehoarding: Japanese American and Asian 1960s Ephemera First Lot
These photos show a portion of the material in this group of documents. There is a cartoon book, a pack of Ainu postcards, several Japanese American newspapers, clippings, civic publications from different Asian countries, and a Little Tokyo business map. All 1960s. This isn’t yet listed for auction. Contact johnk@riceball.com if you want to purchase it or pay to have it sent to some archive.