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Look At Your Shoes, Peasants
This billboard was situated on Elizabeth Street in Sydney, Australia, advertising Kiwi Shoe Polish, with an image of an unidentified man who coincidentally, bore a strong resemblance to the current...
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Revlon Releases Hot New Fall Color: Not Today, Satan
April 1954 Actually, it wasn’t Revlon; it was Cutex, a name we associate today strictly with nails, not lips. But back in the day, they offered coordinated colors for style from head to toe! Step off,...
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All Aboard Santa
If you want to ride “really South” on Santa, you have a choice. Even 30 years later, the Santa ships were going strong. If you’ve got time to kill, here’s cruise line footage, probably the closest...
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We Got Your Produce
Nat Geo Jul ’36 Italian teens peddle their wares for coins on the Boston streets near Quincy Market and Feneuil Hall, which opened in 1743. 1743? You Northeasterners will be much more familiar with...
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Nutty For Nylons
Joyce is over the moon with this new shade of nylons–in stylish palomino! The golden color would cover up her pasty white legs in no time! Ladies, when’s the last time you gave an ounce of thought to...
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George Bailey At It Again
1936 You heard it right, folks. 2020 has been a tough year on all of us, especially George, who evidently had a few too many old-fashioneds and plowed his car into yet another Bedford Falls tree....
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A Little Fancy Frosting Never Hurt A Cake
Seventeen magazine, April 1947 Wow, this ad campaign has got it all. The bandwagon technique; he’s running with the pack. He doesn’t care about personality; he only dates Eye Tonics. So if you’re the...
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If Puerto Ricans Can’t Choose Decent Shoes, How Can They Choose Decent...
Dec 79 Let me qualify that. Male Puerto Ricans. Puertorriqueños. From his bangs to his jaunty mustache, to his feminized clunky yellow sandals, to his flesh belt matching flesh socks, to his choice of...
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How Not To Lose Your Poise In 1943
These days, you can’t throw a stick without hitting a mom clutching a glass of vino to temper the hours of “social distance learning” with the reality of 2020. giphy.com I, for one, am happy to have a...
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My Nuts Make Me Better Than You
Last week, we were in the unfortunate position of being in a Target, which I try to avoid, as they discontinued playing music and always only have one checker, despite there being 1200 patrons in the...
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From Morning Call To Last Call
1948 Cactus Feast your eyes on these natty Texas Longhorns, travelling to Louisiana for a football game in the fall of 1947. I love their fedoras and cowboy hats, the curve of the cars, that one wide...
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Shirley Is On The Make Again
1943 Arbutus Even eight inch celery stalks shooting out of her salad can’t distract Shirley from making googly eyes at Donald. William, however, seems to be admiring the luster of his Cheviot tweed.
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Sanka Makes The Fiesta
If you think the world hasn’t made great strides in being “woke” in the 83 years since this ad was printed in LIFE, you’re wrong. Instead of erasing the past, let’s shine a light on it, so that we...
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When Women Were 6’7″
LIFE 1/29/51 In general, most of us humans are 7.5 heads tall. These sanforized women, however, appear to have streeeeettttcccched to nearly nine heads. Must have been hard to find a frock to fit. But...
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