Double truck (2-page) Overland magazine ad found in the June 7, 1913 issue of the Saturday Evening Post
Continue readingKinda crazy how that’s now a monthly payment.
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Nissan, back when it was a Datsun but it wasn’t a Datsun but it was a product of Nissan and sold at your Datsun dealer. It was a confusing time.
1982 magazine ad for Datsun or Nissan. I don’t know anymore.
History lesson: The Datsun name
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Magazine ad for Shaefer Paper’s camouflaged toilet paper found in Fins and Feathers, Hunting ’88 Special Issue #2
The dude in this ad was definitely not a “leave no trace” guy, but Kathleen Meyer’s “How to Shit in the Woods” wasn’t published until 1989.
$3.99 in 1988 would be around $10.61 these days (Oct. 2024), which seems a bit spendy for a pocket-sized roll of toilet paper.
Continue readingHow original.
Dr Pepper ad found in The 86th Tournament of Roses Official Parade Souvenir Program (1975)
In 1986, Dr Pepper had a 4.6% market share.
In June 2024, Dr Pepper passed Pepsi as the second biggest soda brand.
In 2009, Pibb Xtra (Mr. Pibb) had a 0.7% market share, a 0.1% increase from 2000.
Continue readingIt will never turn a man into a disaster.
Found in the October 1969 issue of Golf Digest.
A Brief History of the Talon Zipper Company
Continue reading“slayer of whirring mallard and lumbering goose”
Found on the back cover of Forest and Stream magazine, March 1921.
The Story of Evinrude Outboard Motors
Hey, do you remember the name of the dragonfly in Disney’s The Rescuers?
“You feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk.”
From 1942 or so. Found on the back of a newspaper clipping.
So what exactly was in Carter’s Little Liver Pills? A laxative.
I guess not having calomel was a good thing since it often caused mercury poisoning.
Continue readingWalt ain’t answering.
I was so focused on this 1966 telephone newspaper ad this weekend that I didn’t notice it was next to Walt Disney’s obituary until today.
Continue reading1906? 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
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.”