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Lefty Limbo Pee Chee Folder Art: Pure Metal
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Posted on 09/02/2014 2:38:46 AM PDT by beaversmom
I’m 65 years old, I raised three children and I’ve never heard of nor seen a Pee Chee folder before. Must not have been common on the East Coast.
BTW, I came to CO from Maine in 1975 when I was 7. It was odd when I heard my friend refer to "soda" or "coke" as "pop".
Never seen it in Dallas...or Texas.
Lol...I wish I had a Pee Chee map! :) Pee Chees were big here in Colorado. Everyone had their Pee Chees on the first day of high school. Of course, they only cost about a 25 cents back then. It can’t only be Colorado, though. Gotta be some other people out there in FRland that remember the folder that grew up in another state.
These relatively inexpensive folders are made of card stock and have two internal pockets for the storage of loose leaf paper. The pockets are printed with a variety of reference information including factors for converting between Imperial and metric measurement units, and a multiplication table. The folders have fallen out of general use by the 2000s, but are available from Mead as of 2014.
The illustrations on Pee-Chee folders changed occasionally over the years, but usually depict high-school-age students engaged in sports or other activities. Artist Francis Golden, best known for watercolors of fishing and hunting, drew the illustrations that have graced the Pee-Chee folders since 1964. It became popular to deface these figures, often with scurrilous doodles and thought balloons. The major difference between Pee-Chees and other paper folders is the inside pockets. Pee Chees have pockets located at the sides, not the bottom, which prevents the contents from falling out if the folder is inadvertently stored upside down.
The Pee-Chee portfolio was given its name because the folders were initially only available in peach; the folders are now available in five colors and have been renamed “Color Talk Pee-Chee Folders″, but the original yellow-peach color remains the most popular by far.
The retro Pee-Chee illustrations now add nostalgic flair to official merchandise for the indie duo She & Him, which consists of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, T-shirts, and iPad cases.
Pee Chee folder “art” from the 70s and 80s:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/peecheefolderart/
Just had chalk’n boards, did ya?
Pee-Chees were also big on the entire West Coast. I had them going to school in Washington State.
And I also remember the Trapper Keeper! I had one of those as well. Wish I still had it, too! I know they still sell the Trapper Keeper, but I recall the original designs. They were pretty cool, and quite handy. Now that I’m teaching English, I can tell you there’s nothing like that here in Europe, unless you want to go an office-supply store and pay and arm and a leg for an organizer, typically, leather-bound here.
Wow, that’s quite a list! Great job. know we had a Zayre’s here in Colorado when we arrived in the mid-70s. And the Woolco was near my high school in the 80s. I liked that department store. When I was in middle school, I can remember dabbling in some theft from Woolco! I think I stole a lip gloss. And I do remember MacFrugal’s, too. It was where the Woolco had been! :) We also had one here when we arrived called Yellow Front. Joslins was a department store that went out of business. I’m not sure of the stores we had in Maine. I would have to ask my mom.
Wow, I’m glad someone other than a Colorado person remembers. :) I can’t recall offhand what the original Trapper Keepers looked like, but I’m sure I would remember them if I saw them. It’s kind of coming into my mind, but not quite. Lol...on the tip of my brain. I’ll have to try to search on the web and see if I can come up with anything.
And old teachers in dark grey long dresses, grey hair, glasses and orthopedic shoes! Didn’t get a younger teacher until I was in the 4th grade.
We also had Skaggs Drugs, followed by Osco, then followed by Payless Drugs. All gone.
They were must haves In Pittsburgh PA...everyone had them. And we drove the Nuns nuts with what we did to them.
Yes, that is what was starting to come to my mind (see below for images). Didn’t they have velcro that kept them closed?
Skaggs was the food store of choice in the 70’s, Piggly Wiggly was another until they left DFW.
So Pee Chees were in the East?! Interesting.
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