1980's The Beverly Heritage Hotel Lobby Desk Ballpoint Pocket Pen, Milpitas

Vintage The Beverly Heritage Hotel Lobby Desk Ballpoint Pocket Pen

Circa 1980's Milpitas, California

And, oh yes, they were certainly trying to play off the famous Beverly Hills L'Ermitage Hotel, but in Milpitas?

Anyhoo, this pen is a classic late mid-century retractable, refillable, recyclable, reusable, re-everything that your BIC is not!

Made by Jo Bee with spring loaded double-click retraction.

A great display piece or prop if you are a Milpitas ("Place of Little Cornfields") aficionado of any sort!

Milpitas Movie Trivia:

There have been 42 movies made in or about Milpitas

with the wonderful 1980's "Milpitas Monster" generally agreed to be the worst of the worst and therefore the best.

It's available somewhere, somehow, for some reason, check it out!

80's Anyone?

THREE WORDS: GREED IS GOOD! In the 80's economic deconstruction exacerbated class disparities in the developed world while multinational corporations relocated to the third world reaping huge economic gain. In other words, "The rich still got richer, and the poor still got jai!" And, as H. Ross Perot famously informed us: "That giant sucking sound you hear is your jobs going South."

Meanwhile back at the ranch, things were disintegrating: Cocaine, AIDS, Supply-Side, Live Aid, Farm Aid, Falklands, Grenada, El Salvador, Glasnost, Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, USENET, ATARI, GUI, MS-DOS, HTTP, CAFE, MTV, ET, HBO, PTL, PLO, WWF, WTF, NAFTA, Iran-Contra, Ollie North, Greenpeace, Pan Am Flight 103, Just Say No, Crack Babies, Air Traffic Controllers, Marcos, Helmsley, Hinkley, St Helens, Challenger, Korean Flight 007, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, Mario, Boombox, Halley's Return, Faulty O-Ring, Yugo, K-Cars, Mini Vans, DeLoreans, Solidarity, Junk Bonds, Trump, Milken, Black Monday, and the Keating Five. Thriller, Dallas, Cassettes, Madonna, Drum Machines, Grandmaster Flash, Curt Cobain, and Karen Carpenter. 750 Million People Watched Prince Charles Marry Lady Diana, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, Olympic Boycotts, 49'ers, Magic-Byrd, Pac-Man, Member's Only, Mullets, Rubik's Cube, Leg Warmers, Brick Phones, Swatch.....It was a decade of excess and paybacks, not to mention hangovers!

Personally, I was pretty busy raising a family and developing my career in the '80's so missed out on a lot of the extreme side of it. But, it was definitely all around me wherever I went, and the shambles of it linger here and there, including in my 80's ANYONE? shop! So go ahead and try on the crown of Post-Modern Capitalism for a while to see how it feels: https://www.ebay.com/str/portlandpandemonium/1980s-Anyone/_i.html?store_cat=38704223017

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