Not Quite Genealogy

1954 Chattanooga Area Ads

Taken from the Southern Memories Yearbook of Southern Missionary College in Collegedale, TN. There were more ads than this, but here are the ones I thought were the most interesting.

Paperback Book Dealers

Many years ago every town and city had paperback book dealers. You could usually swap 2 or 3 books you had read, for another one. Most of them had a rubber stamp and stamped the first page of each book. Sadly over the years most of them have disappeared.

A few years ago I started collecting those stamped pages, and now have several hundred. Eventually I may put a list of them online, but for now here are a few from around Chattanooga.

Briar & To***co was my favorite. They sold pipe to***co, so instead of your book smelling like a used paperback, it smelled like pipe to***co (which in my opinion smells much better before it is smoked).

Alamosa, Colorado Ads

Taken from the Presbyterian Church Cookbook in 1910. I am not sure how large Alamosa was in 1910, but most of the businesses in town must have placed an ad.

I go to a lot of estate sales and occasionally find some very interesting items. The first is an original painting from 1918, the other is a macrame clock holder.

Here is a copy of the phone book ads for new cars in Chattanooga, TN in 1963, quite a few changes have taken place.

I often find information that is interesting (to me anyway) and may help someone with their historical or genealogy research. But, it is Not Quite Genealogy. I hope you enjoy it.