Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Community Chapel T-Shirt





Johnston Island Community Chapel T-shirt. Suspected 80's/90's era. 
Little context known, any more information would be greatly appreciated. 
Missing inner neck label which makes dating more difficult.

 

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Johnston Atoll 1960's USN Souvenir T-Shirt

 




This was the first item I bought, and so rightfully should be the first one to be posted on here. 
It was also how I discovered Johnston Atoll and started to uncover some of its history.  
I came across this for sale when researching into the US' nuclear weapon tests that were held in the pacific ocean, utilising atolls like Johnston Atoll due to their remoteness. The person listing the t-shirt was not selling it for a lot of money, and had nothing to say about it besides labelling it 'USN' and presuming the dating was from the sixties. 
Likely accurate, or potentially the early seventies, based on the Hanes label tag on the inner neck. 

Being such a good looking t-shirt, I became fascinated with what this 'Johnston Atoll' was and why their might be a t-shirt after it. Finding this has lead me to today and the running of this site.

I know that Matt @ Klaxon Howl also has / has had one of these too.