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Christmas 1969, image one
Submitted by gjoe on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 9:19am.
Christmas dinner at my grandparents' house in Floral Park, NY, 1969. Left, My mother, Rosemarie; My Aunt Barbara; My uncle Patrick; one of my aunt's sisters (I can't remember her name); my uncle Ralph; my aunt Loraine and cousin Mary. View full size.
I used to play office
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 7:14pm.
with the punch cards my dad brought home from his job at IBM. And remember the Christmas trees made from folding each page of a Reader's Digest and then spraying it green or gold?
Wreath
Submitted by Mudhooks on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 3:53pm.
Indeed... Younger visitors wouldn't understand the significance of the tacky crafts made from discarded (pardon the pun) punch cards. Christmas trees and wreaths come to mind. Anyone who worked with computers back in the mid-70s always had boxes and boxes of them hanging about.
And here is a great home decorating idea... Punch card window blinds
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/06/computer_punch_card_windo.html
There is a resurgence in the form of stamp art made on punch cards.
http://www.washingtonpavilion.org/VisualArtsCenter/events/punchcardart.c...
Punch Card Wreath
Submitted by Peter on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 2:11pm.
That's a nifty gold spray painted wreath made out of IBM cards on the wall!
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