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[rotuts]

@Smithy

 

interesting and accurate Iid way .

 

in the 50's , it was not so upscale , but on thinking about it

 

Id way it was very much " S.F. Bay area "

 

Homes being ' upgraded ' were very much where I lived .  

 

there was nothing special about them over all .  Eichler where the high end , residential

 

https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-are-eichler-homes/

 

those were prime styles to upgrade.  The picture above

 

whould be what Sunset Headquarters looked like  , and Sans the garage

 

very might like Bay area publiclibraries , where there was more space

 

Palo Alto , Los Altos .    then the main road  ( ElCamino )  that connected these

 

had Orchards.  Apricot , cherry .  right up to the off set for a two lane road.

 

Id say  the upper style of the ordinary homes I delivered to 

 

which is where i  lived .  then some veery fancier stuff  a few towns north of mine

 

this area got fancy esp w patio's etc .  then something from S.F.  which was indeed a different world.

 

the gardening ' around your home '  was done by everybody in the whole neighborhood.

 

remember , one town over from where I lived it Sunset was published .

 

 

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[Smithy]

@rotuts well yes to the S.F. Bay Area vibe. When I was growing up, that was upscale. In fact, when someone said they were going to "The City", they meant San Francisco. If they were going to Los Angeles or its environs, they said they were going "Down South". 

 

It might have been my sister, who lived a year or three in Sunnyvale after getting married, who put me onto the Sunset cookbooks. She cranked out some very nice meals during those early years. (She still does. It just doesn't seem so exotic now.)

[DesertTinker]

16 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

Yes, and our perception of it -- in central California -- was that it was very upscale. Our wealthier neighbors subscribed to it, but my parents didn't. Later, after I'd left the area, I came to really love the magazine. It catered to the California Dream.

Catered to and was founded to create and promote the “California Dream”. Sunset magazine history  on Wikipedia. By the time @rotuts experienced it, it was well into regional editions, thus the feeling that it was made just for folks in (insert your California region).

[rotuts]

@Smithy

 

interesting and accurate Iid way .

 

in the 50's , it was not so upscale , but on thinking about it

 

Id way it was very much " S.F. Bay area "

 

Homes being ' upgraded ' were very much where I lived .  

 

Id say  the upper style of the ordinary homes I delivered to 

 

which is where i  lived .  then some fancier stuff  a few towns north of mine

 

this area got fancy esp w patio's etc .  the something from S.F.  which was indeed a different world.

 

the gardening ' around your home '  was done by everybody in the whole neighborhood.

 

remember , one town over from where I lived it was published .

 

 

[rotuts]

@DesertTinker

 

Close , but maybe 10 - 15 years sooner than that.

 

Mt View  had orchards right up to the ( off set ) of the main road , El Camino

 

I always wondered why the orchards were so fat  aback from the road ;

 

turns out off sets for 6 line road , and businesses w parking in front .  initially.

 

but indeed , it didnt cover anyting in The Valley , nor Gilroy South

 

unless it was Camping , visiting the Missions , or Parks and Momuments.

 

where we did.   

 

 

[rotuts]

Thank you for bringing up

 

''   Sunset   ''

 

very interesting memories ,   

 

as I grew up initially in Los Altos 

 

that had dirt roads , and Apricot orchards.

 

I grew up on a 2 acre plot , of apricot trees , 

 

where there was a small back yard , then a chicken/duck/geese 

 

establishment , constructed by my father , while watched 

 

my parents were teachers ,  and this area , changed exponentially , many many ways 

 

over the next 70 years.

 

my favorite ' dried apricot ' ,  ( not the ones massively over ripe, so they they oozed through your toes )

 

is more or less extinct   .

 

that area changed things , better and worse .

 

 

 

 

[blue_dolphin]

I only have a couple of Sunset cookbooks (Cookies and Brunch come to mind) but I would happily snap up any of them! 
I was introduced to Sunset magazine when I was a kid and used to cat sit for neighbors who were originally from California.  They wanted me to hang out and give their orange tabby Tobermory (aka Toby) plenty of attention, not just feed and leave, and paid me the princely sum of $2.50/day.  That compares to babysitting 2-5 feral children for 50 cents/hour so it was easy money! Back to Sunset, they subscribed to the magazine and also had some of the cookbooks so I’d always grab some to read and sit on the floor with Toby for hours. The homes, the gardens and the food featured in Sunset could have been from a foreign country for little me in the frozen reaches of northern NY! It was really like visiting another world. 
Their home was decorated with mid century modern furniture with interesting artifacts from their travels that I could trace out on a huge world map they used to mark each trip with colored push pins.  They were both college professors and used to book passage on cargo ships and go all over the place.  
I got my own subscription to Sunset when I moved out here but it’s always been linked to Toby and his interesting guardians!

[ElsieD]

19 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

I only have a couple of Sunset cookbooks (Cookies and Brunch come to mind) but I would happily snap up any of them! 
I was introduced to Sunset magazine when I was a kid and used to cat sit for neighbors who were originally from California.  They wanted me to hang out and give their orange tabby Tobermory (aka Toby) plenty of attention, not just feed and leave, and paid me the princely sum of $2.50/day.  That compares to babysitting 2-5 feral children for 50 cents/hour so it was easy money! Back to Sunset, they subscribed to the magazine and also had some of the cookbooks so I’d always grab some to read and sit on the floor with Toby for hours. The homes, the gardens and the food featured in Sunset could have been from a foreign country for little me in the frozen reaches of northern NY! It was really like visiting another world. 
Their home was decorated with mid century modern furniture with interesting artifacts from their travels that I could trace out on a huge world map they used to mark each trip with colored push pins.  They were both college professors and used to book passage on cargo ships and go all over the place.  
I got my own subscription to Sunset when I moved out here but it’s always been linked to Toby and his interesting guardians!

 

Do you have the Appetizer one?  I used to have it but I don't anymore.  I think it had a recipe for asparagus in a puff pastry sort of thing.  I had hoped that the book I mentioned above might have it but it doesn't.  But I also think the Appetizer book they have in this one is not the same as the covers are different.  The version I had (where do these disappear to?) had a pinkish color.

[blue_dolphin]

19 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

Do you have the Appetizer one?  I used to have it but I don't anymore.  I think it had a recipe for asparagus in a puff pastry sort of thing.  I had hoped that the book I mentioned above might have it but it doesn't.  But I also think the Appetizer book they have in this one is not the same as the covers are different.  The version I had (where do these disappear to?) had a pinkish color.

No, I don’t have that one.  Sounds good though!