The Christmas Club was a fairly common deal in the ’60s. This booklet even has a couple of pages where you could add, in very small letters, a list of your loved ones and the loot they’re going to get with your Christmas Club accumulation.
It was still going strong when I began working in ’67, after I returned from my stint in the Air Force. I think I may have set up an account once. I didn’t make a lot of money then and was generally happy just to cover my expenses.
Checking through an estate sale, I saw this and at first I thought it was just a matchbook, then I looked a little closer and this is what it actually is:
Dalton’s Men’s and Women’s Clothing opened in 1956 as Dalton’s Men and Boys Clothing. The original building had a small parking lot to the rear. I would occasionally park there after hours when I was pulling a late shift at WKPT radio. A later renovation subsumed that area.
The store was owned by Maurice and Dot Dalton. They added the women’s section in the 70s. I cannot recall when the store closed.
Back in the 1950s and earlier, these folding fans from the U(sher) O(rlando) Colson Company in Paris, Illinois, were quite the thing. There were dozens of designs, but this one caught the eye of the management of Broadstreet Furniture Company, telephone 150.
Bob Lawrence's Kingsport 