Behind the store shopping is just one step behind midnight appliance shopping behind the stores, treasure-wise. During store hours at a used appliance store my brother had found for me near Columbia Drive and Glenwood Road in Decatur, GA, John and I went out back with the owner and sitting there, with no hope of ever being resold was the very unique 1955 40 inch Westinghouse range with one giant 34 inch wide oven. I had seen ads for it in Saturday Evening Posts and here it was, ours for the taking. On a moving and storage company's loading dock, visible from I-85 in North Carolina, we found our Frigidaire WCI-58, again for free
Speaking of appliance ads, Saturday Evening Post issues are a gold mine for Westinghouse ads; the only place I have ever seen some of them. Unlike LIFE & LOOK, SEP issues were generally full of appliance ads. If you like good fiction, the going will be slow because the SEP was noted for featuring works by some of the best authors of the time. One of the absolutely best things about coming to the Library when I did was that I was able to read through the bound back issues of so many serials (and make copies of things I wished to save) before they were removed from the shelves and replaced by microfilm which transforms reading into research, taking every bit of joy out of the experience.
