1940s
What’s Their Motto?
Your assignment: to come up with this company's slogan. I'll volunteer the old Timex one, although it's not quite right: "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!"
Surely WU-vies can do better!
Original ad here. Scroll down.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 15, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Technology, 1940s
Follies of the Mad Men #164
Wow! Talk about overkill!
The four mythic national beasts of China, Russia, Great Britain and the USA pull the chariot of the Goddess of Freedom--all to sell socks!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 21, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, 1940s, Fictional Monsters
Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy
Yet more musical stereotyping, this time of our noble Appalachian brethren.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 19, 2011 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Regionalism, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, North America
Sing Song Swing
Rivals Krusty the Klown's "Me so solly" riff for wonderfully horrid stereotypes.....
Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing
Charlie Ching
Make his sing song swing
With a tingaling
On the ding dong ding
With a tingaling on the ding dong ding
Makee plenty sing song swing
Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing
Foo Yung Foo
Makee doodle-doo
With a toot or two
On the flute bamboo
And the doodle-doo and the tingaling
Makee plenty sing song swing
Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing
{instrumental interlude}
{scat}
And a tingaling on the ding dong ding
Makee plenty sing song swing
Chop chop choppity, chop chopsticks
Chop chop choppity, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing
Choppa choppa choppity, chop chopsticks
Choppity choppity, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his swing
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 12, 2011 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Asia
Verne Soules
Full patent here as PDF.
A mention of his death in 1948.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 29, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Technology, 1930s, 1940s
Follies of the Mad Men #155
Our customers are self-centered slavedrivers.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 10, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s
Raymond Scott
You heard Raymond Scott backing Jim Henson yesterday. And cartoon and music fans are well aware of composer Scott for his famous tune POWERHOUSE.
But did you also know he was an early pioneer in weird electronic music?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 04, 2011 -
Comments (1)
Category: Inventions, Music, 1940s, 1950s
Vitabrush
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 15, 2011 -
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Category: Appliances, 1940s, Hair and Hairstyling
Official Boy Scout Lip Rouge?
Click to enlarge.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 27, 2011 -
Comments (3)
Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Cosmetics, 1940s
Will Connell
Someone has constructed a Facebook page dedicated to him, which features more great shots like the one here.
Fifteen thousand of his photos are archived here. You have to click thru a couple of links (COLLECTIONS to PERMANENT COLLECTIONS to WILL CONNELL COLLECTION), but then you can search to your heart's content.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 12, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Movies, Photography and Photographers, Avant Garde, Sex Symbols, 1940s
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