Flyers

I was walking through downtown Hamp on my way to the bus stop when I saw some plastic flying saucers in the window of Retro-Genie, the antique shop under what used to be called Augie's.

I call them flying saucers because the word "Frisbee" is actually a copyrighted term referring to a particular brand of aerodynamically engineered plastic discs. Retro-Genie being an antique place, that's what their flyers were, such as this gem from the long lost and lamented Steiger's Department Store.

Here's the Steiger's that used to be at Springfield's Eastfield Mall, shown here as it was around 1970.

There was also this saucer from Friendly's. A copyright notice on it reveals it to have been a promotional item from 1983.

Friendly's in prior decades.

Walking around campus I came upon this clever poster by the UMass History Club.

The other John Quincy Adams.

Finally, this visitor to the Hotel Northampton appears unclear on the concept.

Oh wait, one more thing - this local history meme floating around the internet suffers from a typo.