Silliness for those who appreciate 1972
In a funny and stupid life twist, I learned that "the next time you can reuse 1972 calendar will be in 2028. Both calendars will be exactly the same," according to BirthdayAnswers on every date listed for 1972. Wikipedia might've been better...but Nixon was President and we were still entrenched with VietNam, so not very silly, definitely not very fun. Probably any other year I wouldn't care, but this year I do.
So...BirthdayAnswers it is.
It never once occurred to me that calendars could be reused, or that an older calendar could (would?) be bought. ...like after the year is past. Is that even a thing anywhere?
I
wondered, and you might be, too...and really, why wouldn't you
wonder...where would one find a new 1972 calendar? Or at the least,
gently used?
On that day at least, that day that I wondered, the weirdly correct answer was Etsy.
Just the one, so my lucky day.
(Thanks to whoever you are in Crystal City, Virginia for holding onto this wallet-sized 1972 gently used [it isn't new, it's a half-century old] right when I wanted to buy one...who says fate doesn't exist? *blows kisses in the general direction of...oh, approximately east*)
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| A 1972 Santa Fe Calendar, pocket-sized 2" noted at top. |
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| The reverse side of the 1972 calendar. I had to look at an enlarged version to see the name of E Martin Hennings. |
I wanted the calendar for my own curiosity, but the art on the reverse made the little card all the more interesting.
To draw a quick comparison, I pulled up a 2028 calendar, because I've got to at least have a look at it, right? Right, of course.
I could have and almost did make it EXTRA large so that Vector Stock would know that their watermark is clearly visible from the moon, but I refrained.
Two things in common between 1972 and 2028 make them sort of unique:
**New Year's Day falls on a Saturday
**Leap Year
Between New Year falling on a Saturday AND a Leap Year - make 1972 and 2028 unique to each other, and trying to figure out the why of it is a headache, so I'd rather sit back and appreciate the fact that...
**1972 and 2028 do mirror each other, and I could've trusted the internet, but where's the fun in that?
**I have a really cool little artifact from a no-longer-existent transportation company with really interesting art on the reverse side that I didn't know existed before today...and I rather love finding new (to me) art, even if the artist is dead, and especially art from the Southwest. So I will be looking further into this dead artist.
[watch this space]
p/l/s
