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LIFE 9/5/49 “Giveaway King” Adolphe Wenland sits at his desk in a Hollywood hotel before a blackboard which lists the clients whose products he arranges to have given away. Clients, who are attracted...
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When Overpriced Shoes Only Remind You Of Delicious Tex-Mex
Glamour Nov 2015 The advertisers may try to bring your eye to their “geometric touches,” but those zigzag white sandal straps put me in mind of the sour cream flourishes on a Chuy’s Tex-Mex platter....
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That’s A Spicy Meatball, Dad
Good Housekeeping Feb 58 A recipe was included in this “Father and son” meal. However, Good Housekeeping must have known its readers may have preferred an easier way out, as two meatball ads popped up...
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DeSoto: Like The Spanish Explorer, It Just Keeps Conquistadoring
LIFE 08-15-49 In actuality, the DeSoto stopped conquistadoring in 1961, due in large part to the 1958 recession, from which sales failed to recover. That year, DeSoto sales were 60 percent lower than...
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Why You Need Four Husky Marines
What does motor oil have to do with a House of Horrors??
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I Can’t Wait Till Summer So Overdressed Older People Can Gawk At Me
Well, what do have we here? It seems as though Mom and Dad have just returned from Sunday services, and Margie (who surely attended as well) quickly changed into … why, YES, it IS a teenie, weenie,...
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Les Plus Belles Femmes
Affiches D’Azur Top left: Louis Icart, 1948 Top right: Jean Gabriel Domergue, 1937 Bottom two: Jean Gabriel Domergue, 1950
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Talk About Transparency
http://www.ebaumsworld.com Can you imagine if your convenience store broke down their costs like this? It might help explain as to why it’s $2.25 in one one spot and $2.59 a mile away.
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Sign O’ The Times
Nestled snug inside my August 1947 copy of National Geographic lies this interesting piece of art. Isn’t it just fantastic? I love the split levels. As with many ads of yore, it contained many more...
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Antique Mall Stroll
Dr Pepper’s old ad campaign used to suggest drinking it during peak sugar- and energy-deficient moments during the day, at 10am, 2pm, and 4pm. Perhaps one could say a prayer thrice daily as well? At...
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Thomas Jefferson High School 1940
Sometimes the ads in the back of old yearbooks are just as interesting as the pics inside. This is a right fancy car for only $790. Looks like you could rear end the fellow in front of you and still...
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No Room For Milk
BTW, this artwork was done by Dick Sargent, the prolific Saturday Evening Post illustrator, not to be confused with the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on the ABC’s fantasy comedy Bewitched.
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