Title: Better Homes and Gardens

Type: Monthly Publication Magazine


Publisher: Meredith Corporation

Tagline: The Idea Magazine For Better Homes and Families

Release Date: August 1973

Volume: 51

Issue Number: 8

Color: Yes

Era: Post-Modernism

Style: Vintage, 1970's


Size: Large Edition

Theme: American, Nostalgia



Magazine Size:  9 1/2" x 12 1/2"



Magazine Type:  Soft Cover


Number of Pages: 180 pages

Headlines:

• Decorating, crafts and sewing ideas from America's Southwest
• Fall sewing: new fashions for children
• Make your house new with paint!
• Food ideas that beat those summer slumps
• Mental illness: 14 facts you should know
• Tear-Out Bonus: sandwiches for home, school, work
• Carve a melon-- instructions inside

COVER: photograph by Hopkins

Table of Contents:

FOOD

• 9 - How to carve and prepare the watermelon on our cover
• 50 - He cooks: corned beef casserole
• 72 - Food just for fun
• 76 - Great tasting sandwiches
• 79 - America's best sandwiches
• 89 - Prize tested recipes
• Fresh tomatoes
• 120 - Win money for your recipes
  

CONCERNED CONSUMER

• 10 - Fabric labels: new guides for clothes care
  

FAMILY HEALTH

• 20 - Mental illness: facts you should have clear in your mind
  

CARS IN YOUR FAMILY

• 4 - Driving: when you get off the good roads
  

GARDEN

• 38 - Succulents: plants for all seasons
  

FAMILY TRAVEL

• 109 - End-of-the-road vacations in Canada
  

BUILDING

• 31 - How to make your house new again with paint
• 48 - An add-on activity room
  

PROJECTS

• 52 - Cookout cabinet
  

• 12 - How much money should you put down on a house?
  

CRAFTS

• 56 - Fall sewing special
  
• 68 - The American Southwest look in crafts and table settings
• 99 - Pattern back views
  

DECORATING

• 60 - The American Southwest look: a blend of yesterday and today
  

NEWS AND SHOPPING


• 42 - Good news
• 121 - How to order material from the magazine; for shopping information on products show in this issue
  

CONTRIBUTORS:

• James A. Autry / Wayne A. Miller / Myles Callum / Bill Yates / James A. Riggs / George Bush / Jack D. Rehm / Duane L. Gregg / James R. Narber / Morton Bailey Jr. / Doris Eby / Janice Heckroth / Joan McCloskey / Nancy Byal / Priscilla Hanson Kruse / Hamilton Mason / Don Armstrong / Stephen Mead / David Ashe / Jerry Pinkham / Richard W. Jones / Elizabeth Craster / Morley Smith / Robert E. Dittmer / Rhoda Billsten / Pamela Wilson Cullison / Gerald Knox / Margaret Daly / Douglas M. Lidster / Gordon G. Greer / Albert Lee / Kate Keating / Tony Swan / Mary Ann Robertson / Katie Norris / Ray Deaton / Gerald Preator / Ernest Shelton / John Baker / Dorothy Miller / Ray Woods / Margaret McMahon / Carol Bassin Helms / Nina Doreson / Leslie Colcord / Elizabeth Gilrain / Jill Abeloe / Marion Viall / Carol Miller / Lue Calkins / Adolph Auerbacher / Terry Wadle / Dorothy Hasley / Elvin Fickel / Dorothy Walker / Fred Bohen / E.T. Meredith III / Robert A. Burnett / H.Y. Engeldinger / Frank Furbush / Wayne A. Miller / Donald L. Arnold / John Gregg / James Conley / Allan Ferrin / Jack Barlass / Walter Voss / William H. Straw / Dean Ankrum / Gerald D. Thorton / Thomas G. Fisher
  
  

Origin: Des Moines, Iowa (IA)

Country: Printed in the U.S.A. | United States | USA

Condition: Very Good (item may show signs of wear due to age--please see photos!)


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