This is my attempt to display one of my favorite pop-up books by photographing it. When it is flat it seems just a spiral bound book, but when you open it it becomes a space station! Here is a view of it from the top:
Hallmark Cards. Space Station for A Fine Young Astronaut. New York: Hallmark Cards. (4 p.) 18 x 21 cm. Illustrated Boards. 1960
When the book is opened you see the different rooms of the space station.
The book folds out/pops up into a 4 room space station, each section of the station is heavily labeled with all controls and hatches indicated. Rooms include: Decompression-Refueling station, Control-Communications Center, Recreation Station and Life Support Center.
First up is the Control-Communications Center.
Comes with 3 additional punch-out pages: 1 instructions, 1 with space capsule, 1 with astronauts and equipment. There is also 1 page of text on the back cover about space stations and conditions in space. 
Wow! I had that when I was little. I partially cut out one of the circles on the floor to make an airlock hatch.
ReplyDeleteWow, I have one of these. I received it in 1966 for my 8th birthday, signed and dated on one of the sections from next door neighbors where I grew up in Chicago. It is indeed cool. I also have a Hallmark spiral bound just like this called The Christmas story from the same year and same neighbors. Thanks for sharing these photos. :):)
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to recreate this as a modernized version. Think ISS maybe, but also Moon base, Mars base, etc.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's any kind of a strict patent/copyright on that style of book?
I got mine for my birthday in 1964 or 65, If I remember correctly. I still have it packed away somewhere.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen a non-Hallmark space station book? It had hatches between compartments, and punch-out astronauts as well.
ReplyDeleteI had one of these as well. I'm sure your 1970 date is off. I got mine in early 1965, just before we moved from LA to Burbank. For some odd reason I remember that LOX tank! Thanks for the photos!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tour! I remember getting one and sharing it with my twin brother for Chanukah around 1965 in Ann Arbor. Fondly remember the hatches that opened to the each room. It was a very neat design concept.
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