1945 FREE crochet HAT pattern

 1945

This is from a 1945 crochet book.

I hope if you enjoy this free pattern, I would be extremely grateful if you'd visit my book site and purchase the entire book with all the patterns!

Price: Cheap 

LINK TO BOOK:

1945 HATS & ACCESSORIES  

The time it takes to scan, format, and download the entire book is crazy.  I hope enough people will find it worthwhile to work on some awesome vintage projects!

If you don't want to be "cookie cutter"...making all the ordinary things that you see online...take a leap and create some of these 1940s patterns!

I would LOVE to see a completed project!

1956 Mercy School of Nursing

 I love old yearbooks. I have tons of them from elementary to college.

This is one of my favorites.  

Nurses are special people, and I dedicate these pictures to all the nurses out there. Past, present, and future.

Mercilite, the Yearbook. Published by the Senior Class of Mercy School of Nursing

Golden Anniversary. 

A few of the senior class. Ethel Joan Walker, Mary Anne Parnell, Margaret Ann Earley, and Norma Ann Sawyer.

And junior class representatives include Betty Lou Scruggs, Stello Elizabeth Davis, Betty Lee Russell, and Sadie Irene McFadden

Each of the seniors was highlighted in this manner.

If you have a relative that was in this yearbook and you'd like to see their picture, please feel free to comment or send a message. I'll try to get it posted for you.

HOT STUFF. Little Devil.

 This used to be one of my favorite comics when I was young.

I was always a book worm. One of those kids with a flashlight under the covers to finish the last chapter.

I consumed comics way too fast and we didn't get them very often.

1958 United States Supreme Court Justices & their wives

Standing, left to right:  William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker.  Seated: William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, and Harold Burton

The Justices' wives. Standing, left to right:  Mrs. Brennan, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Harlan, Mrs. Whittaker.  Seated:  Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Burton.  Empty chair is for Mrs. Frankfurter (shown below)

Mrs. Frankfurter was ill an unable to pose for the picture.

This was a "first" of its kind photo shoot arranged by Good Housekeeping magazine and they gave permission for a number of newspapers to publish as well. The ladies with "no fuss" and "graciousness" agreed to assemble in the Supreme Court for the photo session. Among themselves, they decided to wear formal gowns.

This was published in the April 1958 edition of Good Housekeeping magazine.

1959 Coin Operated Gas Pumps

Coin Operates Pump At Self-Service Gas Station

What next?  In Sweden, a new idea is a coin-operated fuel pump.  Such self-service pumps have been installed at many service stations and are made especially for motor scooters and other small vehicles.  The driver simply pulls his scooter alongside the pump, deposits one or more coins and helps himself to as large a quantity of petrol-and-oil mixture as he needs.

This was in the August 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 Flying Barrel

"Flying Barrel" Takes Off Vertically

French aircraft designers have come up with a "flying barrel", an annular-winged plane that takes off vertically from a launching truck, then shifts to horizontal flight.  Called the C-450 "Coleoptere", the tail-sitting plane has a one-man cockpit, flanked by air-intake ducts that feed the central jet engine.  Fuel is contained in the surrounding wing.  The experimental craft is expected to fly at speeds up to Mach 2 or 3.  Manufactured in Paris, the strange plane is expected to be test-flown for the first time this summer.

This was in the August 1959 edition of the Popular Mechanics magazine

1960 Glass-Fiber Frame Bike

Bomard Industries, Inc., Grand Haven, Mich.

One manufacturer is peddling bicycles distinguished by their colorful glass-fiber frames.  Designed by an industrial designer, the new bicycle combines a streamlined effect with the protective enclosure of mechanical parts, such as gears and chains.  Accessories such as horn and light are concealed in the sweep of the frame.  The color is designed into the glass fiber.

Click Here to see coffee cup with this image!

This article appeared in the November 1960 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 Versitile Back Yard Play & Lounge

No ordinary teeter-totter gives such thrills - and it won't roll over

A Back Yard "Piped" for Fun
Here's a Prescription for back yard fun at low cost:  Take two 12-foot lengths of one-inch pipe: bend to semicircles 7 feet in diameter. Make crossbars of 1 1/4 inch pipe that can be moved anywhere along the semicircles and held in place with setscrew locks.  Handy, but not essential, are two wheels from an old lawn mower attached to one end of the joined pipes.  Dwight Kindschy of Moscow, Idaho, has a moveable hammock in mind when he built the original model.  His youngsters quickly took over the hammock as a fascinating piece of gymnastic equipment.  He built another for adults - but seldom gets near it.

With a crossbar seat under the canvas, it becomes a reclining seat. 

 What better way to spend a summer afternoon?  Movable bars held by setscrew locks make for variety

Dad's original idea was for a restful hammock - but whoops, you can raise the back and make a delightful slide all the way down the canvas strip



This article appeared in the June 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics

1959 Mini Locomotive delivers Mail

Paint, scraps and ingenuity converted box into locomotive

"Locomotive" chugs up Wire to deliver Mail

Mail is delivered to Morton Murphy's front door by private locomotive.  Murphy's home, in Brown County, Ind., is 200 feet from the road, and a trip to the mailbox takes him across some rugged terrain.  Murphy redesigned his mailbox into a miniature locomotive, complete with cab, cowcatcher and headlight (a Christmas tree bulb).  The "track" is a wire strung at waist level between the house and the road.  the mailbox hangs from it on pulleys.  A small electric motor attached to the flywheel of an old sewing machine provides its power, winding up a line attached to the locomotive.  Murphy flips a switch, and the mail chugs up to the house.

"Station" is convenient height

Electric motor belted to the flywheel of an old sewing machine winds up a line to pull locomotive up the track.



This article appeared in the June 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine

1958 Hybrid Car Body

Hybrid Car Body
Attracting a lot of attention around Wethersfield, England, is a "custom" car body synthesized by a U.S. Air Force officer. Beginning with a Ford Anglia chassis, Lt. Col. Edward Risher added a cut-down Chevrolet hood, the rear windshield from an American Ford and Austin Bantom wheels.  As a final touch, Col. Risher used two wing tanks from a T-33 jet trainer.


From December 1958 Popular Mechanics magazine

1960 skidmaster

I can almost guarantee I've seen one of these at an estate sale and had no idea what it was!

There are so many things that could go wrong with this set-up. 

advertisement in Dec 1960 Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 Build your own BACKYARD MERRY-GO-ROUND

published in the March 1959 Popular Mechanics magazine

1960 Downtown Manhattan Ice Skating at Apartments

Ice Skating Rink Built Into Downtown Apartment
Midtown Manhattan seems an unusual spot for a private ice skating rink, but at 213 West 58th Street there's a 20 by 32-foot skating area built into the rear of a fashionable apartment building.  The owner, Alan Murray, a shoe manufacturer and ice-skating instructor, had the rink built into the site of an unused stable behind the building so his friends and students could take a turn on the ice without inconvenience or temperature worries.  An ice-making machine capable of freezing 10 tons of ice a day keeps the ice in shape, and Mr. Murray's apartment and offices are around and above the rink.  

The picture shows the host and his daughter as they watch the skaters from the apartment.

From December 1960 Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 What's New in Boats

Article in March 1959 Popular Mechanics Magazine

Sailing Saucer is basically an inflatable play raft that can be rigged as a sailbot.  Hull consists of two fabric sections in a mahogany frame.  Bamboo mast is steped into the framework.
Yogi Yachts, Midway, Washington

Power Skis combine the fun of skiing and boating. The skis, 10' long, will support 300 pounds. Powered by a 25 horsepower motor, they give the skier a fast run in calm waters.
Marin-E products, 3030 Bridgeway, Sausalito, Calif

1960 Indoor Swing

Rainy-Day Swing
Designed to hang from three clothesline hooks screwed to the basement joists, this indoor swing will while away many hours for cooped-up youngsters.  It's made from 1 x 3 lumber, 1-inch dowels, and hung with strong hemp rope

from Dec 1960 Popular Mechanics Magazine