Title: Better Homes and Gardens

Type: Monthly Publication Magazine


Publisher: Meredith Corporation

Tagline: The Idea Magazine For Better Homes and Families

Release Date: March 1970

Volume: 53

Issue Number: 4

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: 138 pages

Headlines:

• Small scale gardens: What to plant with what
• Medical tests that can save your life
• Window treatments that don't cost a bundle
• Three cheerful kitchens with ideas you'll love
• 14 Great recipes for your own garden-fresh food
• What a difference just a rug can make!
• Projects: A storage shed/ greenhouse you can build
• Alaska: A family travel adventure in the pioneer spirit
  

COVER: photograph by de Gennaro

Table of Contents:

BUILDING

• 16 - Can you save with a heat pump?
• 68 - How to get the house you want
  

PROJECTS

• 54 - A do-it-yourself storehouse/greenhouse or what have you
• 56 - Projects: build your own seating
  

FOOD

• 32 - He cooks: Mayetta's chili
• 84 - Fresh food
• 92 - Win money for your recipes
• 97 - Prize tested recipes: Fancy roasts/ Frozen salads
• 107 - Country dinner
• 108 - How to read nutrition labels
  

EQUIPMENT

• 14 - Kitchen collections
• 46 - Pantry pointers
• 74 - Sunny-side up kitchens
• 112 - Four good kitchen desks
  

PETS

• 116 - How to housebreak your pup
  

FAMILY TRAVEL

• 119 - Alaska: a family travel adventure in the pioneer spirit
  

FAMILY HEALTH

• 20 - Medical tests: what do they tell you?
  

GARDEN

• 40 - Houseplant how-to
• 76 - Small-scale gardening
• 114 - Gardening in April
  

• 6 - Are there pitfalls in condominiums?
• 6 - Some professional tips on how to find a job
  

CARS IN YOUR FAMILY

• 36 - Will a thief peddle your bike?
• 44 - A new switch in tire rotation?
• 50 - How safe is that motorcycle?
  

DECORATING

•  24 - Upholstery how-to: redoing a simple chair
• 52 - Changing the scene with carpets and rugs
  

NEWS AND SHOPPING


• 60 - Good news
• 115 - How to order material from the magazine
• 125 - Shopping editor's choice; for shopping information on products show in this issue
  

CONTRIBUTORS:

• James A. Autry / Myles Callum / Bill Yates / Duane L. Gregg / George Bush / Doris Eby / Joan McCloskey / Nancy Byal / Sally P. Torpey / Nancy Hopkins / Noel Seney / Hamilton Mason / Beverly Garrett / Stephen Mead / David R. Haupert / Russell O'Harra / Richard W. Jones / Elizabeth Craster / Shirley Van Zante / Robert E. Dittmer / David Ashe / Pamela Wilson Cullison / Margo Garrity / Gerald Knox / Margaret Daly / Douglas M. Lidster / Gordon Greer / Tony Swan / Kate Keating / Nancy Lindemeyer / Ciba Vaughan / Rebecca Johnston / Neil Kuehnl / Richard W. Royer / Robert A. Dickelman / Mary Ann Robertson / Katie Norris / C. Ray Deaton / Gerald Preator / Ernest Shelton / Robert C. Furstenau / John Caswell / Bryan E. McCay / Ray Woods / Margaret McMahon / Carol Bassin Helms / Leslie Colcord / Ann Lively / Elizabeth Gilrain / Jessie Walker / Marion Viall / Terry Wadle / Lue Calkins / Jim Hirsheimer / Wayne A. Miller / Jack D. Rehm / Fred Stines / James A. Autry / James R. Narber / Robert E. Gerhardt / Jack D. Rehm / J. Wesley Silk / E.T. Meredith III / Robert A. Burnett / H.Y. Engeldinger / Wayne A. Miller / John Gregg / James Conley / Frank Furbush / Donald L. Arnold / Jack Barlass / Walter Voss / James A. Riggs / 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: Good (item shows some tears on the lower front corner and on the back cover--please see photos!)


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