Some business trade writers are objective and let the readers form their own opinions from the provided information, and then there was Truman A. De Weese.
Excerpted from an article in System – The Magazine of Business, July 1907.
Continue readingSome business trade writers are objective and let the readers form their own opinions from the provided information, and then there was Truman A. De Weese.
Excerpted from an article in System – The Magazine of Business, July 1907.
Continue reading“Blazingly bright and stunning, digital technology is revolutionizing the billboard experience.”
Found on the back cover of the June 1906 issue of The American Thresherman.
Product Not To Scale
The ad copy:
It Fills the Bill
J.L. Case Threshing Machine Co.
Racine, Wis.
USA
“That’s hot.” — Paris Hilton, forgetting to use her oven mitts again
— a 60s-era Fina petrol ad written by Howard Luck Gossage
“If you’re driving down the road and you see a Fina station and it’s on your side so you don’t have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren’t six cars waiting and you need gas or something please stop in.”
1974 magazine ad for Cordovox Electronic Pianos
“Suspiciously similar to the Selmer-Armon in having sliders for the 3 equally dismal sounds.”
Continue reading1960 magazine ad for V-8 Cocktail Vegetable Juices
The eight vegetables in V-8 are beets, celery, carrots, lettuce, parsley, watercress, spinach and tomato. And yes, I know tomatoes are botanically fruit.
Here. Have a history timeline of V-8!
Continue readingMagazine ad for Pratt & Whitney found in the December 1937 issue of Aero Digest.
Pratt & Whitney, the early years.
Da plane! Da plane!
Da Lockheed Super Electra 14H2
A bit about Trans-Canada Airlines, a subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway Company.
Continue readingLet’s go back to calling influenza “the grippe”.
Did you know acid phosphate was one of the original ingredients in Coca-Cola and essential at soda fountains?
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