1940s
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 -
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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
Using the Bank
Once upon a time, banks were our friends.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 07, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Money, 1940s
Shameless Plug
Those of you who are familiar with my posts know that I love everything from the mid 20th century. A while ago I started a series of science-fiction Americana drawings, like Norman Rockwell but with robots and aliens. I just set up a website for these pictures, The Saturday Evening Weblog. Right now I have 30 or 40 drawings and will be posting one every day until I run out, and after that I will post them as I draw them (usually a few per week). Anyone who likes retro-futurism or science fiction should check it out.
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Wed May 04, 2011 -
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Category: Humor, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Follies of the Mad Men #139
[From Life magazine for October 18 1948.]
Leave it to rich people to shrink down their servants and stuff them like genies into bottles! Note cute name of bartender: "Hugh Bline" = Heublein.
Anyhow, who would want to drink out of a liquor bottle that had a little man in it performing his necessary sanitary functions?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 28, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Body Fluids, 1940s
Follies of the Mad Men #138
Is that a hydraulic slurry mining hose in your pants, or do you just work here?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 23, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1940s, Genitals, Mining
Follies of the Mad Men #137
Did you ever realize that goldfish were such astute fashion consultants, able to comment knowingly on zipper failure?
Read the text at the original site.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 20, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Fish, 1940s
Gabby: All’s Well
Was Gabby a mentally deficient buttinski, or just a plain pervert? You decide!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 30, 2011 -
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Category: Babies and Toddlers, Cartoons, 1940s
Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich
Order your copy at the Amazon Link! No discerning home should be without one!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 19, 2011 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, War, Books, 1940s
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