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kapt says:

Holy sh**.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

attrition [deleted] says:

whoa! was this ever a good idea?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

aphasiafilms says:

because who doesn't want perfect happiness?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Vidiot says:

Whoa.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Aaron Olaf says:

...Stunned silence...
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

zappa93 [deleted] says:

$1.35 a dozen?? I'll take a gross!!
easter is covered next year!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Liz_Upton says:

That is...remarkable.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

rufie c says:

whoa... any idea how big these things are?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Kip W says:

I expect they're the same size as the baby in the peanut (same price). There's a three-inch baby doll in that one.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

nda5150 says:

This looks like something you'd find on an old Wendy's table.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Man_of Steel says:

I usta LOVE that Johnson-Smith catalog!
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

CaptFreeze says:

lol!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Admiral T says:

*jaw dropped* my goodness
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

salem_wolf2000 says:

that's a little extreme... I'm surprised people would go that far back then to really offend someone.. :(
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

King Power Cinema says:

I'm not offended, I think it's interesting.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

For God's sake Americans! This wasn't "offensive" back then, to whites or blacks! Many people are shocked by such things, but that just goes to show how your history has been quietly erased from the collective memory. And who in America today knows that there were blacks who owned white slaves?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

nda5150 says:

@ ST PAUL

Are you for real? Where are you from, man?

A. This wasnt offensive to Whites back then because Blacks did not have the same social status that Whites did. This is like looking at a German mail order catalog from 1936 and seeing "Jew in a Pennybank".

B. It wasnt offensive to Blacks of the day because, let's face it: If you were a black American living anywhere in the US in 1929, this was NOTHING compared to the open racism so prevalent in everyday life.

C. Blacks have owned Whites as slaves. But not in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina or any of the other slave states in the American South. Or anywhere in the US.

D. Our history has not been quietly erased from the collective memory. It's been mythologized. There are people who can't get past it, both black and white. The way it's taught in schools varies according to demographics, all the way up to College level.

Black/White Racism and Slavery are two facets of our history that have melded into an ugly, sleeping monster that only pretends to be dead. Observe the finite details of the upcoming election and it's aftermath. You'll see.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

King Power Cinema says:

$1.35 per dozen Darkeys in a Watermelon.

Why were there bulk prices for this object?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

nda5150 says:

For people who were resellers... the wholesale business didnt exist the way it does today. Small business owners ordered from the same sources that consumers did:

My great-grandfather ran a general store in central Alabama, and my grandfather used to tell me stories about helping him mail out the paperwork for orders from Sears and Johnson Smith. That, and how you could buy guns mail order just like any other item, including automatic weapons until 1933.

How bizarre.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

King Power Cinema says:

I'd love to be able to order a
Thomson Machine Gun and wait for the UPS man to deliver it.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

wolfmansmith1959 says:

By Jove! That little pickaninny looks like Obama!!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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