Comments on: Those Were The Days

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:05:42 +0000

Hey Connie,

We wish we could help. Unfortunately we’re not sure who you’re referring to. Hope you can hunt her down though!

xo,
s

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:30:11 +0000

I am looking for the name of the woman who wrote a commentary regarding her home each month in the magazine. I beleive she lived in the Maryland area.
Am also interested if she had written any books on her home.
Thank you.

By: Mariah

Mariah — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:46:37 +0000

I had that yellow flowered Simmons hide a bed couch!! Gosh, it was so ugly. It was my first couch, a relative gave it to me when she downsized houses. As soon I saved enough money I bought a red overstuffed sofa (very popular in 2001…) for the first real piece of grown up furniture I bought myself.

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:21:21 +0000

I would LOVE a pea green toilet!

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:55:50 +0000

That does sound beautiful, John – and how incredible that it was such a source of inspiration for your mother. Unfortunately we don’t have that cover, but hopefully one of our readers knows someone who does!

Best of luck finding it.

-John

By: John George

John George — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:29:35 +0000

Hi! I live in Richmond too and was just talking to my mom (who is a design diva from way back) and she was telling me of a House Beautiful cover from spring or summer 1955(ish) that is imprinted on her memory and has in some way or another inspired her designs for a half century now. I would love to see that cover, but have not been able to find it. She says it is of an old farmhouse with wide floorboards with a big comfy chair and a fireplace in the foreground and the back door thrown open to a bright woodland garden. Do you perhaps have that cover or do any of your readers? Thanks, and… Looove the site!
John K. George

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:08:19 +0000

Hey Julie,

We actually donated those old issues to the library near our house after we enjoyed them ourselves. We thought other locals would get a kick out of them too. So sorry it’s not ours to pass along anymore!

xo,
s

By: Julie Difonzo

Julie Difonzo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:17:54 +0000

When looking through this blog about old House Beautiful magazines, I noticed the last cover you showed (with the white lattice) featured the private retreats of several famous people including the home of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Many years ago, I was engaged to their son Christopher and spent a lot of time with his family. I wondered if you might consider selling that issue. I would love to have it as a keepsake.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:40 +0000

Is THAT what those outfits are called? Flightsuits?? There are so many pictures of my mom wearing those in spumoni colors with me as a baby on her lap. It’s good to know they have a name :-)

By: Kayla

Kayla — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:16:05 +0000

I had that Mickey Mouse telephone – cracks me up now…and the fact that we had to buy telephones from Bell. Those were the days…