The perfect way to dry off after a day of Beatlemania at the beach: a 35”x66” cotton terry towel featuring hand-drawn sketches of the band in vintage striped Victorian bathing suits, based on photos band photographer Dezo Hoffmann took on July 27, 1963. NEMS-licensed and manufactured by Windsor Textile Co. of Chicago, it made its way to consumers via Cannon Mills’ Towel Decorators — proof and “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” printed right on the terrycloth.

Every “paperback writer” needed somewhere to stash lyrics, sheet music, and daydreams about the Fab Four instead of algebra homework. Standard Plastic Products released the earliest “early 1964 issue” binders that April in a striking range of colors — white, beige, grey, powder blue, hot pink, lavender, gold — wrapped around a sepia-toned Dezo Hoffmann photo that originally showed Paul McCartney holding a cigarette, quietly airbrushed out once New York Loose Leaf Corporation