Christmas 1961
All of these ads are from my 12/16/61 Saturday Evening Post. Kodak Brownie
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LIFE 4-9-1956 Mom and the kids are throwing shade at Daddy again. And who could blame them? Dad must be up to 150 lbs at this point. I’d give my right pinky finger to hit that number. Fact is, before...
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LIFE 4-9-56 Another perfect ad for I Don’t Get It. Where is Dad looking? Why is his family made into a pyramid? Isn’t Mom unstable? Who needs that much fuchsia fabric?
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Kentile ad 1956 There’s no denying the eye-catching power of these mod Kentiles, in “gaeity” and “fleecy cerulean” with a white feature strip. See how well they compliment the gold-plated television...
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Does this 1954 ad make ANY sense to you? Pretending to be homeless must have been a gas, gas, gas. Sulphur and molasses was actually considered a spring tonic back in the day, though it sounds...
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LIFE 5/5/58 This frozen dinner must have been pretty exotic in ’58, but it looks pretty ew on my end. One wonders how well it held up to the reheating process. And trying to mix the rice with the...
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51088 Banana Burt and Lil pose in snazzy white trousers (who knows? maybe they were yellow…) at the Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Dairy Queen in 1950. Forget the dilly...
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August 1947 What is this woman staring at??
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