Category Archives: Magazines

Fostoria Glass, I love Lucy Props, Magazines

Ricky and Lucy visit the Littlefields

October 13, 2017 Patricia

A visit to the Littlefields on I Love Lucy

In the I Love Lucy, Season 1, Episode entitled Lucy’s Schedule the Ricardo arrive an hour late for dinner at the Littlefields due to Lucy putting the clock back instead of forward. Mr Littlefield values punctuality so dinner is over by the time they arrive.

Gale Gordon as Mr Littlefield, Ricky’s new boss

In this episode Gale Gordon makes his appearance on the show as Mr Littlefield. We first see him seen reading an issue The American Weekly magazine dated May 25, 1952.

Ricky and Lucy have missed dinner so when Mrs Littlefield offers Lucy after dinner mints she is so hungry she takes all of them to hillarious effect. The glass dish is a Fostoria ‘American’ Compote Candy Dish which we looked at in a different scene previously.

Moments later Lucy spots the bowl of wax fruit and another hilarious scene ensues when Lucy bites into a wax apple

I love Lucy Props, Magazines, Ricardo's Bookshelf

Lucy’s Holiday Magazine

April 2, 2017 rickster

THE SAXOPHONE, Episode 40, S2, 9.22.52
While Lucy wants to make Ricky jealous (so he will not go on a road trip with his band) she plants Fred’s derby and gloves on the
coffee table. Next to it, is a copy of Holiday magazine. She later picks it up and waits for Ricky to rush around the apartment looking
for an alleged man hiding in the hall closet. The magazine is the February 1952 issue.

I Love Lucy Nursery, Magazines, Ricardo's Bookshelf

I Love Lucy: Magazine Stand

April 2, 2017 rickster

LUCY IS MATCHMAKER, Episode 62, S2, 5.25.53
When Fred decides to ward off Ricky in a hotel (so he will not catch Lucy allegedly having an affair with Eddie Grant) he stops at the magazine stand. Here are some of those magazines of the day.

50s Retro, I love Lucy Props, Magazines, Ricardo's Bookshelf

Lucy’s Look Magazine Cover

March 26, 2016 Patricia

Look-August-1951 In the I Love Lucy Episode Men Are Messy, Lucy gets on the cover of Look magazine. The picture of Lucy on the cover was mocked up from an actual issue of LOOK magazine from August 14, 1951

Magazine-Look-August-1951-Volume-15-Number-17 See it on eBay menaremessy

50s Retro, I love Lucy Props, Magazines, Ricardo's Bookshelf

Lucy reads McCall’s Magazine

February 28, 2016 Patricia

lucymccalls-1-53
In the I Love Lucy episode “Ricky Has Labor Pains” (1953) Lucy is reading the January 1953 issue McCall’s Magazine – notice the reference on the cover for the article “Why I Love Lucy” by Desi Arnaz.
mccalls-jan-53 See it on eBay.

I love Lucy Props, Magazines, Ricardo's Bookshelf

Fred Mertz’s Sports Illustrated Magazine

December 22, 2015 Patricia

Fread reads Sports Illustrated Magazine in Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums

In the I Love Lucy episode Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums Fred Mertz is seen reading a copy of Sports Illustrated dated Nov 22 1954. This was actually Season 6 (1956–57) of I Love Lucy and the film date of this episode was June 28, 1956 which aired on October 8, 1956 so the magazine was over a year and a half old when the episode was filmed. This was not just any back issue though, it was the magazine’s first cover to feature a professional football player.