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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2012-08-02 02:31 pm

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Something I keep forgetting to post about: Mom visited this weekend, bringing a little book. She volunteers with her local library's Friends organization, and helps run the book sale. She found this one there and snagged it.

It's Sheila Chichester's London Woman, a short guidebook to shopping, dining, and generally doing touristy things (but mostly shopping) in London from, as far as we can tell, the 1960s. There's no publication date. We could probably pinpoint it by figuring out when various places mentioned in it opened and closed, but that would probably take more effort than I'm willing to put in (WorldCat gives copyright dates from 1960-1987; the cover look like this 1969-claimed version on Amazon).

I shall, however, just leave you with this:
PIZZA EXPRESS
363 Fulham Road, SW10 01-352-5300
Pizzas in variety to take away, even on Sundays. Solves the container problem by putting pizzas in specially designed boxes. Closes at midnight.
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[personal profile] trouble 2012-08-02 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I am admittedly very excited about the specially designed boxes. :)

[identity profile] tavella.livejournal.com 2012-08-02 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. That reminds me a bit of a quote from some early 1970s novel, where a New Yorker was presented with an exotic food he had never heard of beofre: tacos.
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[personal profile] trobadora 2012-08-02 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! That is awesome. :D

[identity profile] tool-of-satan.livejournal.com 2012-08-03 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
That Pizza Express opened in 1968, but can't date the book any more closely than that because it is apparently still open. It looks very 60s. (Not linking because my last comment with a link got marked as spam.)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2012-08-06 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!