Buying the New Yorker 1986 - page 78

Ah, Calphalon.

My kitchen overflows with these lovely dark aluminum darlings. They do work nicely, but they aren't the last cookware I'll ever buy. (We're slowly switching over to All-Clad. Sorry Calphalon).

On to the research: I have no idea what, where or who "Calphalon" might be. It is an interesting word. I keep on thinking of The Anabasis. I also think it would be a great word to hear Colin Meloy sing. The credit for the jewelry (That's jewelry scattered around the pans there. I notice that many of the ads in The Complete New Yorker aren't scanned as well as the, well all the other things that everyone is supposed to be paying attention to) is for J Kiechel. The best I could find about J Kiechel is that they are still in business and also in Ohio.


Remember a few posts ago when I finally came across a hotel that was so average that I could find absolutely nothing interesting or extraordinary about it? Here's Appleseed's. They sell clothes.

Society Expeditions has been absorbed by an outfit called Pacific Island Travel. But forget about that. I want to know about "Project Space Voyage." It's been discontinued. Not surprising: January 1986 was not the best time for a space voyage.

When I did the 2006 installment of this project I came to an ad for Replacements Ltd and said this:

Oh no! We broke Grandma's favorite Hummel figurine! That's what happens when you play football in the house. Better go to Replacements, Ltd. for another one.

Then there was the 1996 installment:

There was an ad for Replacements Ltd. in my 2006 version of this. Their website says that they've been in business for 25 years. So perhaps we'll see them again when I go through the 1986 version. They will be all embarrassed about how the ad shows off their mullet haircut and parachute pants.

And look, I was right! Here they are again. When I was in North Carolina last week, I kept passing them as I went back and forth on the highway. I waved at them. Hi Replacements, Ltd!

I can't tell if the residence that's advertising as Home Away is still taking people in or not. I'm guessing not. They seem to still have the same phone number though. Someday I'm actually going to call one of these outfits. Just not today.