North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro NC

Kudos to the North Carolina Zoological Park for their design work on this brochure. While the front is a bit lacking, the inside shows a design esthetic ahead of its late 1980's production.

There's one important footnote on this brochure that was key to my entire collection. If you look carefully at the bottom of the back panel, you'll see

"250,000 copies of this public document were printed at a total cost of $8,935 or $.036 per copy."

Why was this important? Well certain states/organizations provided this information, allowing me to roughly gauge how rare a brochure was, and how much it was worth. So I could get excited that this one was "worth" 3.6 cents. Hey, this whole collection might be worth $12.00! At a young age I had a keen sense of the worth of objects, even if I was still naive enough to think I was sitting on a pile of gold. Twelve dollars!

Lexington North Carolina, Davidson County

I don't know that this brochure would convince me to stop at Lexington, or Davidson County, but it certainly shows the people who lived there, or at least their Chamber of Commerce, had great pride in their hometown.

Morehead Planetarium, 1986-1987

My favorite part of this 1986 - 1987 brochure for the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has nothing to do with planetarium programs. No, it's the full panel, customized Hardee's ad on the back that makes it all worth it. Unless I'm missing something, the good folks at Hardee's must've commissioned this space-themed ad just for this publication. Kudos to them for sponsoring the planetarium, and doing it in a way that actually ties into the theme of space...



Also, if anyone out there saw the show, I'd love to know more about this "Cosmic Cat" and his friend Astro Owl.