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Marriage and Career- You Can Have It All
No need to draw the line between a career or marriage. Contrary to yesterday’s post with its kooky quiz asking girls to choose “What Are You Best Fitted For Love or a Career?” one mid-century miss...
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Who Says You’re Right in Liking Meat?
Bacon lovers are bemoaning the horrifying news that their favorite breakfast food has now been added to the ever-growing list of things that cause cancer. Vintage ad Swifts bacon 1961 Who says...
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Something to be Thankful For
Holiday themed advertising has long been popular, and mid-century advertising served up a heap big helping of ads that today we would consider questionable. No Puritans these Pilgrims, they are bravely...
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Cold, Flu and the Story Of Kleenex
It’s the height of cold and flu season again which means it’s all out war on sniffles and red running noses. For those battle fatigued sufferers, endless reinforcements of Kleenex are constantly...
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The Chilling Facts of Income Inequality
Decked out in their luxurious Russian Lynx or Persian lamb fur coats, harsh winter was no problem at all for Depression era well-to-do; figuring out how to pay for the winter fuel was a problem for...
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The Fading Middle Class
The Middle Class Fades Away America’s middle class is vanishing before our eyes, fading away like a once cherished Kodacolor snapshot. Today the possibility of obtaining the American Dream feels as...
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Housework and the Happy Homemaker
Is housework the final feminist frontier? This collage about the Happy Homemaker and Housework is part of a collection called Media Made Women which chronicles popular culture’s vision of women from...
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Women and Food Will Win the War – WWI
Vintage WWI Food Conservation Poster Food shaming is nothing new Nearly 100 years ago dietary transgressions were darn near treasonable. Not unlike today there was a moralization of food choices but it...
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Memorial Day a Day For Remembering
On Memorial Day we pay homage to all the soldiers who didn’t come home. To all those we lost in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraqi, and Afghanistan, this Buds for you! Memorial Day has the word...
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Beer and the Happy Homemaker
Why was the Happy Homemaker so happy? Beer of Course! Vintage Budweiser ad Ever wonder what made the mid-century Happy Housewife so happy? It turns out hubby wasn’t the only one knocking back a few...
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Big Soda Big Lies
Americans are worried…First they came for our tobacco, now are they coming for our sugary drinks? This election has caused panic among our citizens. While many alarmed Americans are agitated, losing...
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There are Some Things to Be Thankful For
Holiday themed advertising has long been popular, and mid-century advertising served up a heap big helping of ads that today we would consider questionable. No Puritans these Pilgrims, they are bravely...
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Hooking Up Advice- A Vintage Valentine’s Day Dilemma
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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A Model June Bride and Jon Whitcomb
Like most mid-century girls, Bitsy Bendix longed to be a bride, convinced that the basic occupation of virtually every girl was choosing a man to marry. But for bachelorette Bitsy the next best thing...
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What Happened To America’s Trains Of Tomorrow?
Has the sun set on Americas great trains of tomorrow? Americas great trains of tomorrow are a thing of the past; progress on our trains system seems to have been derailed. Once on the fast track,...
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Thanksgiving Progress
Was the first Thanksgiving truly a pow-wow worthy feast? Most of us associate the holiday with happy pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. It did happen once. It would be good to say this...
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Santa Claus for a Cause
A patriotic Santa comes to the aid of the Allies in this WWII Christmas advertisement for Interwoven Socks . Just as both sides in a war claim God on their side, so WWII American’s enlisted Santa to...
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A Bubbly New Years Toast
A bubbly toast to all my readers- Friends Always! Let’s hope 2018 is a vintage year!
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Military Show Offs Cold War Style
Military Might garishly displayed seems so darn un-American, but in fact it’s rather retro. While we might recoil at the idea of a Soviet style military hardware parade rolling down Pennsylvania...
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Blackface Never In Good Taste
It’s safe to say that this 1950 Lifesavers ad that ran in Life Magazine would never appear today. Among the collection of vintage advertising we’re likely never to see today can be added this 1950...
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