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Put More Sugar In Lisa
This ad from my May 19, 1967 LIFE blows my mind. (scroll down for larger type) It literally says, “Make sure you get sugar every day. People need what sugar’s got.” People don’t need more sugar....
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Is This My Cowardly Lion?
It’s not often that I get to say “I’m too young to remember this,” but since I wasn’t alive in the 60s–hey, I’m too young. I was flipping through my 1967 LIFE and saw this image of Bert Lahr. It didn’t...
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Why Paint The Town Red When You Can Paint Your Home Pink?
Even more cliche than those drugstore Father’s Day cards referencing golf and ale consumption and handyman tools, are the ones that show Dad taking a paint roller to his bird’s egg blue brick house and...
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Snoopy Was A Carnivore Who Probably Ate Horses
Painting done not by Norman Rockwell, but Douglass Crockwell. Seriously. Ah, yes. In the years before talk of puppy mills and Pit Bulls & Parolees, folks would go to the Pet Shop and actually...
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Mabel, If You’re Able, Black Label On The Table
1958 Note the M on Mabel’s daisy dress, a precursor to Laverne’s sweater L. Though no longer widely distributed in the U.S., Black Label remains the official beer of Beer Frisbee, aka Beersbie–because...
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Just In Case You Forgot Who The King Of Twills Was
It’s Stevens Twist Twill, lest ye forget. The red lion. And just in case you’re not familiar with twill, it’s a fabric with ridges. It’s the Ruffles of the material world. http://www.gccworld.com You...
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Turns Out They Were Saying ‘Merica Back In ’58
This 1958 Ford ad isn’t cropped or split down the middle of a page. It actually says “Merica’s” instead of America. I’m assuming it was implied that the painter had painted it on the part of the...
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
This kiddo wishes he were ANYWHERE but under the tree with these losers. Perhaps he’s upset because he received a Norma pencil. At least these parents know how to make their daughter’s Christmas a...
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You Really Need To Get Your Schlitztogether
1957 And the award for best illustration of ale with squirrels, accordions, and ascots goes to… Schlitz! Y’all, this ad did its job. It actually makes me wants Schlitz, despite the fact that I would...
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Never Ever Pour Your Beer This Way
Unless you like a frothy mouthful of head, do not pour your bottle into your glass this way. I watched a patron at a pizza parlor pour his pitcher (that’s a lot of p’s!) into his pint sans tilt, and...
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How Soulless Gingers Stay Cool In Summer
Silly ginger, don’t ruin your supper by eating dessert first! The RCA Whirlpool fridge is so accessible, crafty gingers easily figure out how to eject ice at the touch of a button. And they’ll have...
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Did I Mention Menton?
All images from Affiches D’Azur Yep. Another lady carrying stuff on her head. Even in France.
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I Know What You Did In My Bathroom, Pearl
Good Housekeeping, March 1925 In the same magazine, you’ll find lovely Dix-Make dresses. No one makes dresses like Dix-Make. If you’re not in the market for a flat-chested flapper dress, perchance you...
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But Does It Gyrate?
You KNOW it gyrates. It’s Gyrafoam. Today, we take up where yesterday we left off. Smack dab in the middle of 1925, when women had no social media and were slaves to their chores. But they had...
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Hit The Trail, Tiny Snail
A boy must leave his dog at the kennel. The boy is pensive. The dog is pensive. The kennel is ex-pensive. In times like this, it’s good to have farewell phrases at hand.
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