Timesavers Sanders & Johnny Bean Machinery Industrial Advertising Artifacts 1970

Description: Timesavers Sanders & Johnny Bean Machinery Industrial Advertising Artifacts 1970 Industrial Advertising Artifacts & Ephemera 1970'sTimesavers Sanders & Johnny Bean Machinery Lumber RemanufacturingHere is a one-of-a-kind throwback group of industrial advertising artifacts from the 1970's featuring stuff from a bunch of local and international woodworking equipment manufacturers and representatives.INCLUDES ALL LISTED BELOW1) Barlow tape measure w/Bean logo, 2) Timesavers Sanders pinback button & matchbook,3) Unopened deck of McDonough playing cards, 4) As-new metal sticky-back shop plate, 5) Variety of paper advertising ephemera (much of which I designed!). Johnny Bean Machinery was a Portland local company that specialized in selling high production woodworking equipment to factories that made things like furniture, cabinets, and various millwork. I was privileged to be a salesman for them for about seven years during the 70's. Johnny had numerous advertising trinkets and gimmicks. One of the best was a little Barlow pocket tape measure with our BEANIE logo and phone number on it. Handing that to a customer felt like giving someone a gold coin...... they were very appreciated. For many years the Johnny represented Timesavers Sanders in the Pacific Northwest. Timesavers is a company that makes heavy duty "wide belt" sanders for use in wood and metal parts manufacturing. I was surprised to learn recently that they are still chugging along after 70 years of churning out large industrial equipment and that they are still based in the Minneapolis area. One of the interesting promotional things Timesavers did was to have an "Academy" for their field reps wherein you were invited to come to Minneapolis and be schooled in all things Timesaver for a week. This was during a time when industrial sales were nearly 100% dominated by men and one of the highlights of the training slide show was a picture of a naked women every so often! They wanted us to stay alert. Everyone laughed. Things have probably changed. The other two things I remember from the training were very simple: You were given a box of matchbooks in Timesaver green with your name embossed in gold and you were given a bunch of these great Timesaver pin backs with the fabulous logo of a Herculean-type figure holding back the hands of time. I guess I could list these ephemeral items separately, but for me, they go together and I hope you will agree in your own way and put a button on your jacket, a tape measure in you pocket, and give a little strut for the good old days. That 70's Show! What is there to say about the 70's other than they thoroughly drained the 60's hippie swamp and replaced it with a boat load of geeks bearing their nascent computer programs which would eventually rule the world. Global economies fluctuated and the geo-political environment, both here and abroad, was characterized by frequent coups, armed domestic conflicts, civil wars, broad political upheavals, all in full swing as our Vietnam nightmare came to an end with a big "X" in the loss column and Nixon took off with one last "V" for Victory. Perhaps most striking was the wake-up call we got from OPEC when our gas pumps went dry. Over the course gas at the pump went from 32¢ to $1.19 per gallon (if you could find it) . We were going nuts with all kinds of displaced anger and fear when something called the Ayatollah came into our lives and forever changed our standing in the world's pecking order. The novel terrorist approach of hijacking airliners came to be a common event. Terrorists (Palestinians vs Israelis) held a massacre at the Munich Olympics, Patty Hearst was hijacked, Kool-Aid was a quick way out of trouble, Thatcher came on board, Carter ushered in our Bicentennial Celebration, Bloody Sunday kept the Troubles brewing, The Pope was Polish, Ping Pong was a Cold War strategy. An earthquake in China killed nearly a quarter million people, and 3 Mile Island single handedly put an end to nuclear power development in the US. There were 13 airliner crashes world-wide killing over 2,700 people including the deadliest US crash ever when a DC-10's engine "detached" on takeoff from O'Hare and 273 people died. Inflation hit a high of 13.9% and "stagflation" was the buzzword, SkyLab was the first space station, but also marked a decline in interest in space launches for many years. Betamax vs VHS, DNA, MRI, IVF, ERA, SNL, WTC, & WTF. Steve Jobs founded Apple amid Earth Day, Deep Throat, Roe v Wade, Women's Liberation, Schoolhouse Rock!, Charlie's Angels, Pong, Jaws, Walkman, and Disco Balls. Elvis Left the Building, and in came Rapper's Delight, Mechanical Bulls, Nurse Ratched, Archie Bunker, Mork, Fonzy, Spitz, Nadia, and Muttonchops (not to be confused with Lamb Chop)! Maybe that gives you a sense of the 70's being the S**T show it was for many.Unfortunately, what came next was even worse.Regardless, I always keep some 70's memorabilia on hand for the few stragglers out there still waiting to get on board: https://www.ebay.com/str/portlandpandemonium/1970s-Show/_i.html?store_cat=38704222017We Will Scratch Your Vintage Itch Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

Price: 25 USD

Location: Newberg, Oregon

End Time: 2024-09-18T00:50:51.000Z

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