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The Big Gulp
Sugar Shock Sweet news for citizens of New York City! The sugar Calvary has been called in to save New Yorkers with a sweet tooth. A last-minute reprieve from a judge has rescued the Big Gulp from...
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Making The Scene With Mad Men
Millions will turn-on and tune-in when Mad Men returns for its 6th season. AMC is hoping you won’t drop out. The Beat Goes On We last left Don Draper and the gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in...
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Heinz Ketchup Beckons a Man
Vintage ad Heinz Ketchup 1934 Mad Men’s Don Draper was not the first man to be tempted by the beckoning allure of Heinz Ketchup. During the dark days of the Depression, Babs Johnson learned how to keep...
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Five Minute Face Lift
Want a more youthful vibrant expression? Chew on this! Forget expensive cosmetic wrinkle fillers and injectables like Botox. For a true non surgical age reversing technique-good ol’ American chewing...
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Whitman’s and Mothers Day
My sweet Grandmother had a sweet tooth. Whether Bartons, Barricini, or Lofts, chocolate was the common currency of celebration. But Mothers Day meant only one thing- a Whitman’s Sampler. Through the...
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On the Front Lines with Coca Cola Pt II
Vintage WWII Coca Cola Ad 1942 During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a frosty bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and a...
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Ladies and Lawns
Vintage Illustrations (L) Saturday Evening Post Cover 1955 illustration: Dick Sargent (R) Vintage Ad 1955 Beer Belongs Home life in America Series “Showing Off The New Power Mower” illustration by Fred...
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Cheerios and American Diversity
Feeling nostalgic for those pre-civil rights days? Cheerios is serving up some good old-fashioned controversy in it’s all American breakfast cereal, bringing to light some rather racist comments....
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Bra Sizes – A Thing of the Past
For decades women have been in pursuit of that holy grail- the perfect bra. Not only one that fit properly, coaxing uncooperative curves into line, but showcasing m’ladys charms as well. For just as...
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Unintentionally Gay Ads-Does He or Doesn’t He?
Oh Johnnie, Oh! Vintage Johnnie Walker Ad 1951 How’s your mid-century gaydar? Fans are buzzing about the Mad Men moment when mystery man Bob Benson slyly touched his knee against sourpuss Petes,...
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You’ve Come a Long Way Peggy Olson
Mad Men’s Peggy Olson Big Time Career Girl (R) Vintage DC Comics“This is the big chance I’ve been waiting for! I mustn’t fail this time! Not love or anything else is going to keep me from success!” We...
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GM and WWII-Victory is Our Business
GM WWII Ad- Victory Through Progress 1942 What was good for General Motors was good for the army Once upon a time when it came to cars General Motors was king of the road and the American Dream was...
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How to Avoid the Risk of Offending
Vintage White Rock Beverage Ad 1946 In a time of heightened sensitivity over stereotypes, years of ethnic and racial labeling have fortunately, largely been erased from advertising. During the post-war...
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Who’s Driving This Country?
Vintage Chevrolet Advertisement 1934 Step on the Gas Nervous Dot the Democrat is sure glad that Bette’s husband Dick drives a Chevrolet. Men can be real speed demons on the road but with Republican...
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Santa Claus and Coke.
Many attribute Coke Company as having a major influence in the commercialization of Santa. Today greeting cards, figures toys and Xmas decorations all depict Santa the same way- jolly, white beards,...
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Santa’s Heart Healthy Holiday… Ho Ho Ho
With his overweight girth, penchant for candy, coffee and cigarettes, it’s a Christmas miracle that twinkly-eyed Santa is still around to make his Christmas deliveries. One only hopes there’s a...
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Smoking- Just What the Doctor Ordered
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company ran a long series of ads (R) in which they claimed that according to a nationwide survey “More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette.” Clearly if doctors are smoking...
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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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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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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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