Business
High Cost of Electronics
In a recent post featuring a typewriter advertisement, the discussion turned to the high cost of electronics in past eras.Check out the price for this early calculator. The ad dates from "the early 1970's," according to the site where I found it. The Online Inflation Calculator says:
"What cost $345 in 1974 would cost $1435.60 in 2007."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 04, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Technology, 1970s
ACM Wallet
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 31, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Inventions, Chindogu, Money
Cheerios and V-8
I love Cheerios, and can tolerate V-8. But there's no way I could imagine eating a spoonful of Cheerios and then swallowing a gulp of V-8 immediately after the sweet milky mouthful.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 30, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Toys, Children, Space Travel, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #41
"Let's take a screeching unfunny harridan, dress her in Colonial drag, then simulate a hideous war wound using our product as a makeshift sling. Then, let's run the ad in a magazine filled with beautiful naked women for contrast."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 29, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Entertainment, Fashion, 1970s, Comedians
Kitschin’ Tables
Which would you choose?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 28, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Products, Human Marvels, Interior Decorating
Follies of the Mad Men #40
There's nothing oddball about this ad--except its incredible lameness! Look at those stupid birds that dominate three-quarters of the page. What do they tell the reader about the product? Absolutely nothing! This full-page ad could have run as a tiny spot with the same text at the back of the magazine for a fraction of the cost. And it would have achieved the same results.
Imagine the malicious glee at the ad agency that created this: "We just grossed a hundred K for two blotches of paint!"
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 27, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, 1960s
Cow Mattresses
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 24, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Cows
Kitty Klaws
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 23, 2008 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Business, Products, Cats
Follies of the Mad Men #39
The other day, watching that commercial of Lucky Strike cigarettes square-dancing, I speculated on how one could distinguish female from male cigarettes. Twenty years after that commercial, Madison Avenue had the answer! Female cigarettes are "pretty" and have decorative floral emblems on the filters!
Wasn't it wonderful that "women's lib" allowed tobacco companies to sell more cigarettes to a previously under-served population?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 19, 2008 -
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Category: Addictions, Business, Advertising, Death, Fads, Gender, Women, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #38
Exactly how does one distinguish a male from a female dancing cigarette? I suspect this of being subliminal homosexual propaganda, since all the dancers look identical to me!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 14, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1940s, LGBT, Dance
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