1950s Uncatalogued PC issue - Cleveland Indians Baseball Jeans

[DaClyde]

GenealogyBank to the rescue!

Ads for the Indians Baseball Jeans can be found in issues of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1958 & 1959. In the April 6th, 1958 issue, there is a Higbee's Basement Store advertiseent for them. Looks like they came with a plastic belt, and an Indians patch on a seat pocket.

The only ads I find for them are from 58-59. I don't see any ads for them in any other years from 1952-1962.

[JLange]

Wow, that was quick! I suspected Higbees but had no proof. This ad seems to narrow it down to late 1950s, which makes sense. Thanks for the help!

[Volod]

Originally Posted by DaClyde

GenealogyBank to the rescue!

Ads for the Indians Baseball Jeans can be found in issues of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1958 & 1959. In the April 6th, 1958 issue, there is a Higbee's Basement Store advertiseent for them. Looks like they came with a plastic belt, and an Indians patch on a seat pocket.

The only ads I find for them are from 58-59. I don't see any ads for them in any other years from 1952-1962.

Wow, Jason, that's impressive. Not only having quick access to 60-year-old Plain Dealer archives, but scanning ten years of dailies for ads - how do you do that?

[DaClyde]

Originally Posted by Volod

Wow, Jason, that's impressive. Not only having quick access to 60-year-old Plain Dealer archives, but scanning ten years of dailies for ads - how do you do that?

That's what the search box is for! Genealogy Bank doesn't have as good a system for browsing papers as the Google Newspaper Archive, but it has a very good index of the contents of the paper, which includes a lot of the text in the ads. I saw they had the Plain Dealer in the Historical Newspapers section, put "Indians Baseball Jeans" in the Include Keywords box and clicked search. I got 4 results. Took me all of 5 minutes.

Once I got somewhat burned out on my family history research, I let most of my subscriptions lapse, but I found Genealogy Bank particularly helpful in baseball research, so I figured it was worth the price to keep it at around $50 a year (especially since a year subscription to NewspaperArchive runs around $200 a year).

[h2oya311]

very cool PC! Now I'll be on the lookout for another...