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Just Four Spiffy Little Ads From 1948
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The Maid’s Dilemma
In 1971, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. sent out fancy-looking replicas of one of its 1906 advertising pieces to… oh, probably bars, package stores and, who knows, maybe even courthouses and Girl Scout troops. It was a different time. Anyways, here’s one of them.
Bad Girls sucks your balls.
Back in the 1990s when I was living in Grand Forks, North Dakota, there was a building that housed Sensations Nightclub, the Down Under Pub, Campus Liquors and several other businesses. In the inside hallway was a pinball machine that one of my friends decided to play one night. After a bad game, she shouted, “Bad Girls sucks your balls!” and something like that is hard to forget.
I randomly happened upon this Bad Girls flyer while scrolling through some eBay listings and, yeah, I had to get it.
Ahh, good memories of Bad Girls.
Continue readingNo other car in the world will satisfy you.
What did the 1950 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limousine look like for real? Check out General Douglas MacArthur’s, one of 209 built that year.
Continue readingDo you have under-par children like High-Strung Helen?
How to Impress a Biker Chick
Illustration by Jay Hyde Barnum. Not a lot of info online.
I’m not quite sure what sort of action went down in the illustration, but they both look great!
A History of Herringbone, courtesy of King & Allen Bespoke Tailoring
Continue readingCome on, ride the train, hey, ride it.
The Overland Limited was the “the ne plus ultra of travel luxury”
Did you know that thing in front of the train is called a cowcatcher? Or a pilot, if you’re boring.
The Overland Limited was in service from 1887 to 1963, Or maybe 1899 to 1938. There is some disagreement.
Continue readingThe Right of Way
I love this pairing.
The one on the left is a reproduction of Philip Goodwin’s “The Right of Way” by the Remington Arms Company from their “famous Remington Wildlife Art Collection” and was first issued in 1907.
The one on the right isn’t.
Voila!
“Oh, we’re the boys of the chorus…”
Or perhaps…
“Throw out your hands
Stick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give ’em a push
You’ll be surprised
You’re doing the French Mistake
Voila!”
I CAN HAS SPARKLEE HOOMAN?
Pronounced RAY-PLEEK.
Réplique was introduced in 1944.
The original scent was discontinued in the late 1980s.
Via Cleopatra’s Boudoir…
“The story is almost too good to be true, but it is an acknowledged fact: The main “nose” of parfumeur Worth in Grasse had just created “Requête” in 1944 when he had a violent argument with one of the directors and left them in the worst possible terms. He was immediately hired by Raphael and created “Réplique”, the reply to a “Requête” in French legalese. It was rumoured that Worth did not enjoy the joke.”