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Coke & American Diversity-It’s the Real Thing
“Hospitality-So Easy and Welcome with Coke” vintage Coca Cola Ad 1948Recently, some very inhospitable reactions have bubbled up over Coca Colas multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful Real...
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Colds & Cigarettes
Under the Weather? How About a Smoke?(L) Illustration from Vintage Listerine Ad (R) Vintage Spuds Cigarette Advertisement 1943 What a Drag Under the weather? Try a smooth smoke. Why let a pesky head...
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A Vintage Valentines Day Dilemma -Do’s & Don’ts
To Canoodle or Not to Canoodle In Post-War America, love was in the air. Along with Valentines Day’s hearts and flowers, came big dates, big dances, and king sized expectations in high schools and...
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Touchdown for Gays
Vintage advertisement TACKLE Acne Gel “The Man’s Way to Solve a Young Man’s Skin Problem” 1963 The quarterback always scores a touchdown with the girl! Football has always been a real mans game....
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Shirley Temple and Valentines Day
With Shirley Temple’s death falling so closely to Valentines Day, this 1951 ad is particularly poignant.Vintage ad for Lane Hope Chest for Valentines Day During the 1930s a pint-sized curly-headed...
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Vintage Advice For Cheaters
Vintage illustration from Aeros Willy Car Ad 1950s For generations Valentines Day presented a quagmire for cheating spouses. Not anymore. There may not be Hallmark cards for this holiday but February...
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Tempting Tips for Valentines Day
Vintage Ad Tea 1940 With Valentines Day right around the corner, the internet is awash with sensual suggestions on how to spice up your romantic life.With titillating tips ranging from exotic sex toys,...
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Snow Days and Warm Cars
Getting weary of winter? Lately it seems as if the world is one mass of howling icy cold with round after round of snow. Braving blizzards in your car, winter weather does its best to stop you. The...
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Mac & Cheese and the Pursuit of Happiness
Vintage illustration from Budweiser Beer Ad 1948 “Great Contributions to Good Taste” Thomas Jefferson was an enthusiast for macaroni George Washington may be the father of our country but it is Thomas...
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Skater Sonja Henie – Go For The Gold
Olympic Gold Medal winner Sonja Henie, changed the sport of figure skating forever, and parlayed her talents and fame into a successful movie career.At her peak Sonja Henie was # 3 at the box office...
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Income Inequality- The Chilling Facts
Decked out in their luxurious Russian Lynx or Persian lamb fur coats, harsh winter was no problem at all for Depression era well-to-do; figuring out how to pay for the winter fuel was a problem for...
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Colds, Flu and the Story of Kleenex
It’s the height of cold and flu season again which means it’s all out war on sniffles and red running noses. For those battle fatigued sufferers, endless reinforcements of Kleenex are constantly...
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Golden Age of Hollywood Endorsements
Famous Hollywood Stars use Lustre Creme Shampoo like Elizabeth TaylorVintage Ad 1952 Hollywood and Madison Avenue were a marriage made in commerce heaven. Nothing sells like celebrity, so in honor of...
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Crisco and Kosher Kitchen Culture
Vintage advertisement Crisco 1915 Once upon a time to a transfixed nation, trans fats were not the troublesome substance we now view them as but were the very symbol of scientific progress. If the FDA...
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The Frigid Woman in the Cold War
American husbands were getting the frigid-aire from their spouses. According to experts the mid-century American woman was as frosty and frigid as the polar vortex. The cold war was a chilly time to be...
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True Detectives
Vintage “True Detective” magazine April 1941 As HBO’s True Detective has proven, Americans love their Dicks. The true crime and true detective genre is as American as apple pie. Long before the much...
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Matriculating Into Mid Century Matrimony
The graduating class of 1960 was forever enshrined in the vintage illustration on the right that appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in Sept. 1960. Depicting Smith College graduation the...
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True Fans of True Detective
Vintage cartoon “True Detective” magazine September 1941 True Detective had a knack of turning its fans into rabid fanatics. Just as today, devotees of True Detective magazine were once as totally...
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Sex and the Happy Homemaker
Vintage Photo from Simmons Mattress Ad 1951 The Frigid Woman in the Cold War PtII When it came to sex, just how happy was the proverbial happy homemaker? Not so much. An epidemic was ravishing cold war...
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Russia The Hungry Bear
Is The Cold war being Defrosted?(L) Vintage illustration from Time Magazine 4/12/48 General Lucius Clay and the Berlin Airlift Crisis Cold war concerns of Russian aggression are coming out of the deep...
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