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1906? We can probably blame the opium.
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.”
“That’s hot.” — Paris Hilton, forgetting to use her oven mitts again
A fine piece of Gossage.
— 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.”
Sing us a song, you’re the honky tonk harpsichord man.
1974 magazine ad for Cordovox Electronic Pianos
“Suspiciously similar to the Selmer-Armon in having sliders for the 3 equally dismal sounds.”
Continue readingAlways remember to budget some time for creative research.
(BONK) I coulda had a V-8!
1960 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 readingTake off, eh!
Magazine 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 reading“It’s just the flu.”
Let’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?
Continue readingAlas, I was born too late.
Bugles are still around, but I totally missed out their snack siblings — “Whistles – a cheddar-flavored corn product in the shape of a whistle and taste like grilled cheese on toast, only crunchy; and Daisy*s – a flower-shaped snack that had the flavor of puffed popovers.”
Dang it
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