"C. Smith" wrote in message
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I'm trying to track down the date of publication of an article
that I believe appeard in Sunset Magazine in the 60s. We
recently purchased a second home that was originally built by
friends of the family. My mother believes that the house was
featured in Sunset magazine while she was growing up in the
60s.

The owners names were Floyd and Ole (or Ola) Johnson and
the house was located on Blakely Island in the San Juan Islands
of Washington state. The house was completed in around 1964,
so I'd imagine that the article would have appeared around
then.

My mother seems to recall that it was featured because
it was all electric. We've recently remodled it and discovered,
it was clearly state of the art at the time -- central vac,
built in blender/food processor, dropped celings and lovely
dressing rooms. This was particularly unusal because the
island was extremely remote. I've already contacted Sunset
magazine directly, but they were unable to help me. I was
thinking that maybe one of the big archive services like Lexis
Nexis may have cataloged stories that far back. Any help in
directing me to resouces or the actual issue date would be
wonderful!


Visit a local university library, they've often got old magazines on
microfiche or microfilm. You won't get any color photos, but at least you
can read the story. As others have already said, use the readers guide to do
your initial leg work, otherwise you'll spend months burning out your
eyeballs trying to read old magazines on microfiche.

Sameer