Some other posters have asked this question as well. I'll try to find out for you all.

I imagine everyone knows already, but a site called Replacements.com probably has a pic of the dishes since they deal in vintage and discontinued patterns of tableware of all kinds. Hope that helps.

Thanks for responding so quickly. I checked with Replacements several months ago, but they were unable to identify it without a picture. My grandparents had the same dishes during my childhood and I would like to collect them. Your help is appreciated.

I discovered this show late yesterday during the marathon. I LOVED it. I'm not sure how I missed
it, I watch a lot of the cable shows on FX and TNT, but missed this one completely.
It was really good, but I want to catch up, so
I hope they run another marathon before the
season premiere. I will be tuning in for sure.
I find that whole era, which is my childhood,
interesting, I'm a political junkie so the connection
to the 1960 Presidential campaign was interesting
for me as well.
Really quality shows. The Networks better watch
out, all the really good shows are on cable these
days.

I look forward to following this show.

I asked the same question on another area of the board regarding the dishes. They look like they are either stoneware or pottery. I collect the prairie green Frankoma pottery and it looks very similar. This pottery was popular around that time period. Thanks for your help Clayton Neuman.

No problem guys -- I'm told I'll get an answer in a few days. Maybe in time for the premiere ;)

I love the props too! I was five years old in 1960 but as the youngest in my family I vividly remember all of these ultra-cool stuff my parents and older sisters did. One after another nostalgia-laden props on MM takes me right back. The French cuff and cuff-links were totally chic. All the men wore fedoras and cashmere topcoats in the winter. A short jacket on a man back then was limited to blue collar workers or Saturday chores. Neither of my parents ever wore a pair of jeans. Since all the 'grown-ups' smoked back then, those ubuiquitous ashtrays with back-to-back long beaked pelicans that held continously lit cigarettes were de rigeur. The cars and the clothes are perfect!!!! I love seeing the voluptuous sized 10s and 12s being considered so desirable. Don's girl on the side, "Midge" seems anomalous, however. She certainly is ahead of the curve given the era but I don't know how typical this character would be in 1960-62. I suppose a village beatnik might fit that mold but I can't recall how Don met up with her??? Anybody know that? She doesn't exactly run in his circle - I recall she is some sort of 'artist' and hangs out with other primordial hippies. I LOVE MM - makes me look back fondly at those days when the national mind set was so young and still naive. Life was simple but we had much less choice back then. This show brings that point home with a bang during each episode.

I have no idea, but that china of Betty's kinda has the shape of Fransiscan pieces (makers of "Desert Rose" and "Apple" patterns very popular in the '40's and '50's and still are I think) Just a guess, but still would love to know the pattern name of whoever the manufacturer is. Thanks for researching it,Clayton!

Perhaps a company named Pope-Gosser

Here you go guys--

"The plaid dishes (from last season) - Vernonware and the pattern is Raffia"

Clayton to the rescue! BTW, I looked on Ebay, all of you who were wanting to collect, and there are some pieces of it for sale, but you all probably already checked them out, I bet. It is really "60's" looking in shape and color, isn't it?

i remember my grandmother saying to call her and she'd start her phone number with a name... it threw me off. i had no idea what to do or why she kept saying, "CHerry-4..." i was totally confused. i was about 12 or so and it was 1985. she clearly hung onto as i later was told by my mother that is what people used to do back then with prefixes. kind of funny because i just did not understand. now my 7 year old son frowns and looks at a "payphone'' as totally foreign to him.

Kikkoman, listen to the Glen Miller songs and the band will stop and say, "Pennsylvania-6-5000". That is a phone number. I managed to find an old dial phone at a garage sale for $5.00. I hung it in my movie theatre room (never connected it as a real phone) next to the E.T. poster. I placed a sticky note that says, "E.T. - Phone home". I thought the kids would have a fun time playing with it. The reality was that they couldn't figure out how it worked. I had to place their finger in the holes and rotate it to the bar. Then I had to teach them to release the dial. They kept asking me, "why did they have this dial? ,why didn't they just put buttons with numbers to push?". A grandmother told me that she kept losing her cordless phone and her grandson told her, "grandma, wouldn't it be great if they could mount those phones to a wall then you wouldn't lose them". Kind of funny, huh?

luvmadmen, that's so hilarious! What goes around comes around or everything old is new again? So true.