Cover of General Electric’s Guide to Gracious Entertaining, 1963
It’s not a party until you blow a few fuses.
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Cover of General Electric’s Guide to Gracious Entertaining, 1963
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All the horrors of karaoke plus all the horrors of 8-track tape!
What a way to celebrate America’s Bicentennial.
Fun fact: Billboard’s #1 song on the Hot 100 around the time of this ad?
Starland Vocal Band’s “Afternoon Delight”.
Another fun fact: Radio Shack sold blank 8-track tapes until 1990.
Except for Brady-Bunch Orange, all the worst late-60s colors in one late-60s GE ad!
Thanks to growing up in North Dakota — where nobody got rid of perfectly-good appliances until they stopped working, exploded, caught fire or got skunked by an actual skunk — I am very familiar with Avocado and Harvest (called “Harvest Gold”* in my neck of the woods). On the other hand, I only have fleeting memories of Woodhue, Frost White and Mist Blue after seeing them here, and the latter two mostly just remind me of those long-expired pastel mints that elderly relatives always had somewhere in their house in a decorative glass container. [shudder]
*I have been informed that Harvest Gold is darker than simply Harvest, but still lighter than the infamous Harvest Black.
Ad of Yore: General Electric Air Conditioner full-page print advertisement from a 1969 Look magazine