Old NAR Pink Books
 

Steve Humphrey created an archive of old editions of the NAR Pink Book going back to 1962. They were made available on February 2.

https://drive.google.com/folderview...TXc&usp=sharing

Thanks for the link, Wolf. I made this a Sticky.

Cool.

Kudos to Steve!

I'm trying to look at these old NAR pink books and when I click on the file nothing happens. Anybody else having this problem or is it just me?

Which is strange, because when the link was first posted I had no problem..........

Yea. I tried to follow the link as well, and nothing happened. I wonder what's up.

David

OK. Apparently you have to be signed in to your Google account to view the drive.

I looked through the source code for the direct link to the drive location. Here it is:

https://drive.google.com/?usp=folde...c3E4dmNaYXZHTXc


David

Ah, you figured that out. However, I'm surprised it didn't automatically ask you to log in.

Hmmmm.............when I use the link provided by Astronot, it asks me to enter the password OF MY YOUNGER DAUGHTER!! :confused:

If anyone could go in and look at the NAR pink books for me, all I would like to know at this point is..............

When was NAR located at 1239 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20005?

When the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) handled NAR HQ operations.

I would like to know the year that their headquarters were at that address. And while I'm on that topic, what was the reason for the NAR moving its headquarters all over the place over the years?

Apparently in 1962.

Taking a wild guess at this - getting volunteers to run NAR HQ is the most likely reason. NAR HQ moved to whoever ran NAR HQ, rather than someone quitting their job, selling their house, moving their families, etc. NAR doesn't pay much.

Thanks for the info. Just an attempt to verify it.............did zip codes exist in 1962?

Zip codes started in 1963.

The NAR HQ manager's husband kept moving, so HQ moved when the family moved. After Doris Mayer retired from the position, Marie Stumpe took over, and HQ was in MN for a long time before moving to WI, followed by its move to the current IA location.

Pink Book
 

Very interesting collection worth looking at:-)

Thank you for the link.