I think I remember her gardening in pants but I am not sure they are jeans.

I'd have to re-watch Happy Weekend, where they went to Shadow Lake. That's one possibility for jeans.

What did she wear when she helped the Beaver was moving the lawn for Wally?

What did she wear when she helped the Beaver was moving the lawn for Wally?

I'd have to re-watch Happy Weekend, where they went to Shadow Lake. That's one possibility for jeans.

I do not think she is wearing jeans in Shadow Lake. For sure in the gardening one.

I think you're right on both.

At the Shadow Lake cabin I never noticed that gramophone before.

I never noticed that gramophone before.

Because nothing says roughing it like a gramophone. :lol:

On the 1980's "Still the Beaver", June is wearing slacks and Eddie knocks on theor door and says something like "Those are some nice slacks you are wearing Mrs. Cleaver", or something similar. About the only time you see her wearing pants.

And for a woman about 70, Barbara Billingsley was still very attractive as an older woman.

I'm glad Barbara had a long life, reaching age 94 before passing away.

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What is a gramophone?
A gramophone, like a cassette player, CD player, or MP3 player, is a device for playing music. A gramophone plays records: discs with grooves that are amplified by a needle. It's a relic today, but at one time this turntable device was the chief means by which recorded music made its way to the ears of home listeners.

wow - we are so old lol

Suburban women rarely wore "slacks" back then. Only if doing some physical acticity. It was a big deal when women started wearing pants and became a battle of the sexes thing nationally.

In fact jobs back then often REQUIRED women to NOT wear pants.
Jeans (and Bermuda shorts) were prohibited entirely for female students at Penn State University until 1954, when the ban was lifted only for off-campus events.

School dress codes often required women to be in skirts or dresses. That was not prohibited until 1972. In 1969 Rep. Charlotte Reid (R-Ill.) became the first woman to wear trousers in the U.S. Congress.


June would not have been a pioneer on that front.

She was a pretty lady, even in her elder years.

What is a gramophone?
A gramophone, like a cassette player, CD player, or MP3 player, is a device for playing music. A gramophone plays records: discs with grooves that are amplified by a needle. It's a relic today, but at one time this turntable device was the chief means by which recorded music made its way to the ears of home listeners.

wow - we are so old lol

The signature look of the gramophone is the large horn speaker attached.

the RCA Dog & Speaker "His Masters Voice"


His Master's Voice

The RCA dog “Nipper” (1884-1895) belonged to Mark Barraud, decorator for a London theater. The dog was born in Bristol, England. Commonly identified as a fox terrier, the RCA dog “Nipper” was probably actually a terrier mix. He may have had plenty of bull terrier in him, even some think he was a Jack Russell Terrier. The name “Nipper” came about because of a trait of his puppyhood: his tendency to greet strangers by biting their legs, but that might be fanciful. In 1887, when Mark Barraud died unexpectedly, his brother Francis Barraud (1856-1924), a painter, took “Nipper” home with him to Liverpool. The first painting depicting the RCA dog “Nipper” was called "Dog Watching and Listening to a Phonograph" and showed a dog looking inside a cylinder phonograph pavilion.




A commercial ad

Thinking commercially and noting that the “Nipper” dog was listening to an Edison Bell cylinder, Barraud wrote to the Edison Bell Company in New Jersey for them to use the painting in their advertisements. But the representatives of the company failed to see how it could help sales and turned down his offer, because they believed that dogs don't listen to phonographs, as was their logical if unimaginative conclusion. Friends liked the painting and suggested to Barraud that he might make it more appealing by substituting a gold horn to replace the black Edison horn. Barraud liked the idea but needed a gold horn from which to model the new version of the painting, so he visited Barry Owen, the manager of Liverpool’s newly formed Gramophone Company, who understood the commercial possibilities. He offered to buy the painting and the rights to it if Barraud would make it a record gramophone instead of a cylinder phonograph, which Barraud did. A deal was made for both the painting and the copyright, and in October 1899 the deal was sealed when Barraud delivered the painting.

She was always such an elegant, classy woman! One of the greats!