tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post7369716551014276278..comments2024-03-28T08:28:46.548-04:00Comments on Philofaxy: Then and Now....Lauriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03550291806241735598noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-14931137724263442092014-09-22T10:04:02.015-04:002014-09-22T10:04:02.015-04:00I am just looking at my original Filofax from Chis...I am just looking at my original Filofax from Chisholm's. Some one once told that there used to be a lady upstairs punching all the holes and at one stage the company was about to fold and various writers and directors got together to raise money to keep things going..Have I dreamt this?!Celiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05152948855014906439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-21139109395755960862014-04-16T19:55:22.654-04:002014-04-16T19:55:22.654-04:00Thank you for posting an update on the filofax usa...Thank you for posting an update on the filofax usa website. I am itching to get my hands on my first filofax and have been disappointed that they haven't been in stock for the past month! Now I just need to decide if I want to order from the UK site or another UK retailer and pay a lot of shipping or wait till June! I'm getting impatient! ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03716622960181050995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-83594894442078080012014-04-16T18:32:04.438-04:002014-04-16T18:32:04.438-04:00Thank you to you also for thinking about the Filof...Thank you to you also for thinking about the Filofax users in the USA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-55502975381483793472014-04-16T16:40:17.541-04:002014-04-16T16:40:17.541-04:00Aaahh, memories! I spent plenty of time and money ...Aaahh, memories! I spent plenty of time and money in Chisholms, and also in Just Facts in Broadwick Street, which was famous in the 80s for carrying every available Filofax insert.<br /><br />Thanks for your post Steve.Gerardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12161724366696139219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-58856273630017362312014-04-16T16:37:11.956-04:002014-04-16T16:37:11.956-04:00It was fun going back through the archives! I had...It was fun going back through the archives! I had never seen most of them. It would be great to know if any of the "oldsters" are still in use, or at least preserved in the deep recesses of someone's attic.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10707694274280279258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-55880435938156563692014-04-16T13:37:03.219-04:002014-04-16T13:37:03.219-04:00Thanks for the link gmax: I had a look at the Pock...Thanks for the link gmax: I had a look at the Pocketfax brochure, good vintage stuff - I hope we get to see more things from the archive!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-66893439343086391062014-04-16T11:47:19.415-04:002014-04-16T11:47:19.415-04:00The UK Filofax site has a picture of one of the Po...The UK Filofax site has a picture of one of the Pocketfax brochures here<br /><a href="http://www.filofax.co.uk/from-the-archive" rel="nofollow">http://www.filofax.co.uk/from-the-archive</a><br />(Seventh row down on the left.)gmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772023016889832202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-71491181425871116332014-04-16T11:38:29.210-04:002014-04-16T11:38:29.210-04:00Norman & Hill were the owners of Filofax in th...Norman & Hill were the owners of Filofax in the 1970s, and I think it was quite a small market until the middle of the decade, when David Collischon started a business called Pocketfax, selling Filofax products via mail order. It was so successful, that he was able to buy Norman & Hill in 1980.gmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772023016889832202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-5873279059874278422014-04-16T09:51:09.124-04:002014-04-16T09:51:09.124-04:00I too bought my first Filofax, a personal, back in...I too bought my first Filofax, a personal, back in 1986. Don't know the type of Filofax unfortunately, but it will be vintage by now!! In the depths of the loft somewhere. Oh, and how lovely to read about Washington. It always sounds such a lovely city. xx<br />Butanbenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06467585464165082007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-14513179068521680312014-04-16T09:42:30.575-04:002014-04-16T09:42:30.575-04:00Loved your post and recollections of the days befo...Loved your post and recollections of the days before heavy internet traffic. I worked at America Online in the early days and created a lot of sites on AOL for newspapers, shopping web sites, etc. I remember the joy of reading the Washington Post and USA Today online (and not getting my fingers covered in printers ink) and being able to get CDs and books shipped to my door in the early days of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-57169547080510771282014-04-16T09:34:56.787-04:002014-04-16T09:34:56.787-04:00In the 1980s, I bought my first Filofax (grey vin...In the 1980s, I bought my first Filofax (grey vinyl 7/8, still in possession) at the Barbican Bookshop iin York, where I was living at the time. <br /><br />It was a great bookshop, and used to have tottering piles of secondhand books on all the staircases between floors. The Filofax stuff was in rotating wire racks, in the religious section. <br /><br />When I went back a couple of years ago Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-48647595791556184282014-04-16T09:05:46.844-04:002014-04-16T09:05:46.844-04:00I really enjoyed reading this post. I think I fir...I really enjoyed reading this post. I think I first learned about Filofax in the early 1990s. I'm sorry to say that I don't have the one I bought way back then. It was before the internet was available in most people's homes, so I never saw variations on how to use one's own binder or how to swap Filofax inserts with others (or to make one's own!). That's why I stoppedCathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18157409286271269709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-48362724639417308312014-04-16T05:55:59.219-04:002014-04-16T05:55:59.219-04:00Good to hear someone who remembers that Indigo.
I ...Good to hear someone who remembers that Indigo.<br />I still have an old price list from there, and you can see it if you search on Flickr for "Filofax Heffers".<br />Trouble today is that a store with a good selection of anything struggles to stay in business when many customers choose what they want there and then go online to find it cheaper. Only a few places manage to get a good gmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772023016889832202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-65874518713880055092014-04-16T05:36:01.669-04:002014-04-16T05:36:01.669-04:00Loved reading this. I originally come from just o...Loved reading this. I originally come from just outside Cambridge and remember the shelves of Filofaxes in Heffers Bookshop. I was at school and 6th form in the 1980's and when I left school I did get a much cheaper version from Whsmith's to keep track of my a level work etc. I still liked spending my lunch breaks ( I used to work summers in Cambridge) looking at the binders thinking Indigo Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18045423692916533428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497333.post-26263447043221083552014-04-16T04:12:49.868-04:002014-04-16T04:12:49.868-04:00Good post Steve!
I was interested to read your rec...Good post Steve!<br />I was interested to read your recollections about Chisolm's, a place I'd only heard the name of. It sounds wonderful. I have an ambition to recreate the shelves of Filofaxes that used to sit in Heffers bookshop in Cambridge in the 1980s. I've actually got enough old ones to make a fair imitation now!<br /><br />The idea of ordering things when you're not gmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772023016889832202noreply@blogger.com