New topic:
WINDOW DISPLAY

My Dad (Kenneth Grant) was display clown (his term) at
Bedell's Department store in Portland, Oregon in the late '50s
and then at Nordtrom's in Portland in the mid '60s, becoming display manager.
He sent me scans of these slides (actually one half of stereo 3D slides)
which I would like to share. They are pretty groovy.
Unfortunately the scans leave something to be desired.
He always wore a suit to work (with skinny tie, of course)
and crepe soled shoes so he wouldn't mark up the display window floors.


NORDSTROM, MID SIXTIES
Dad's Illustrations and type would be pretty groovy today.

NORDSTROM, MID SIXTIES
Another view.


NORDSTROM, MID SIXTIES
This one is just nuts, but check out the art on the boxes.


NORDSTROM, MID SIXTIES
Campus Casuals. I think the figure is a self-portrait of Dad.
Check out the big suspenders holding up the shoe racks.


NORDSTROM, 1967
The clapboard reads:
Scene: Fall, Take: 1967, Sound: Wild


BEDELL'S DEPARTMENT STORE, LATE FIFTIES
It's hard to see, but the background is Japanese newspapers,
complimented by black origami birds.


BEDELL'S DEPARTMENT STORE, LATE FIFTIES
Before the youth oriented sixties, there was the adult-oriented fifties.


One note: The home town department store is gone.
Those Portland department stores I such as Lipman's
Meier & Frank, Bedell's, etc. have all ben replaced by Macy's.
I hate Macy's.