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Illuminated Advertising Tower
I want to live in the alternate timeline where these towers have replaced billboards.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 24, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, Patents, 1930s
The Ediphone Sets You Free
Businessman likes to imagine that because he doesn't always have enough time to dictate correspondence to his secretary that he's clearly "chained down like a galley slave."More info about Ediphones.
The Reporter with Postage and the Mailbag - Sep 1939
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 21, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Telephones, Advertising, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #596
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 21, 2024 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Advertising, 1960s, 1970s, Women, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Follies of the Madmen #595
This commercial is mundane and unexceptional--barring one thing.The woman lays her poopy child directly onto one of the Bake Sale tables.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 12, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Hygiene, Advertising, Babies and Toddlers, 1970s
The Bromo Seltzer Tower
The building's home page.The original tower was topped by a 51-foot revolving replica of the blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle, which was illuminated with 596 lights and could be seen 20 miles away. Due to structural concerns, the bottle was removed in 1936.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 05, 2024 -
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Category: Architecture, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Regionalism, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #594
Squished passenger and allusion to an insect's posterior: winning strategy?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 30, 2024 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Mental and Physical Unease and Discomfort, Advertising, 1960s, Cars
Artists and their Sears appliances
In 1969, Sears ran a series of magazine ads to advertise its Kenmore line of appliances. The ads below all appeared in Better Homes and Gardens.The ads featured well-known artists (musicians, novelists, actors, etc.) who owned Kenmore appliances. I guess Sears was hoping to make itself seem like a more high-end brand by suggesting that people with good taste owned their products.
It's interesting to see the homes, and appliances, of these artists. For instance, Dave Brubeck apparently kept his washer and dryer in his living room.
A week ago I had never heard of Pauline Trigere. Now she's appeared in two posts within the past few days. She should have had a loaf of bread wrapped in waxed paper in the background.
I wondered if one of the kids was Natalie Cole, but I think they're her younger twin sisters Timolin and Casey.
That's definitely not George Clooney (Rosemary's nephew). I'm pretty sure it's her son Miguel Ferrer.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 26, 2024 -
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Category: Celebrities, Advertising, Appliances, 1960s
Buy bread in waxed paper
Buy bread in waxed paper and then lounge about with it while wearing a gown designed by Pauline Trigere.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 24, 2024 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Advertising, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #593
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 22, 2024 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Destruction, Movies, Advertising, Fantasy, Twentieth Century, Cars
One’s really his mother…
A young man with Oedipus issues.
Better Homes and Gardens - Sep 1969
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 17, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Parents, 1960s
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