I added this catalog to my collection recently. I hadn’t seen it before, though after I bought it I saw it go for half the price and without the yellow banner. But the yellow banner is kind of cool. Obviously catalogs bound for a certain region had a special cover made to announce the opening of a new store. I’ve seen other covers like this for other areas.<\/p>\n
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Turns out this was not Birmingham, Alabama but Birmingham Michigan<\/a>, an upscale Detroit suburb. It seems the Banana Republic store was there until just recently.<\/p>\n The cover was illustrated by Ward Schumaker<\/a>, a San Francisco based illustrator who’s still very active and in demand, although with a very different style than this. The Carry On! issue was promoting their Carry On Line <\/a>of luggage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I added this catalog to my collection recently. I hadn’t seen it before, though after I bought it I saw it go for half the price and without the yellow banner. But the yellow banner is kind of cool. Obviously catalogs bound for a certain region had a special cover made to announce the opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[1128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5945,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/5945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/male001-300x223.jpg\")
I was also jazzed by this one because it features Banana Republic stealth mascot, Livingstone the Zebra<\/strong> of Mill Valley, CA. Livingstone appears on many catalog covers but is never mentioned in the text that I can see or promoted in any way. It’s interesting that they created it but left it as an in-joke and not an explicit part of their marketing. That’d be too cute by half. View other Livingstone sightings below<\/strong> ( I just noticed his Picasso-esque portrait in the Artists and Writers cover).<\/p>\n![\"Banana](\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/covers\/fallupdate1986_zebra.jpg\")
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