These poor people actually believe in the existence of the 1956 L.L. Bean catalog -- with such pathetically touching fervor that they've created a live re-enactment of its cover and put it on the latest catalog.
Every modern thinking -- uh, person knows that the 1956 L.L. Bean catalog never existed. Oh, there was a cover for it, and the cover was what convinced those naive Fifties types that there was an actual catalog inside. But they were too intimidated by the authorities of the time to open it and see for themselves. What if it was Red propaganda? They could get hauled in front of Senator McCarthy just for looking at it! The look on the woman's face, as if she were on the verge of complaining to her husband, would also have frightened and repelled them with its radical defiance of the social order, not to mention the implication a girl child had been taken on a fishing trip.
Finally, in three minutes of intensive research I was unable to find a single 1956 L.L. Bean catalog for sale on eBay.
Yet, somehow, belief persists.
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